About
Provided by Moore Barlow LLP
Our team of specialist education lawyers advises senior leaders and governors of leading independent schools across the country on all the key legal issues that affect their operations and strategic plans.
Our approach is to forge long-term professional friendships with heads, bursars and governors of schools, building trust and understanding a school’s unique character, culture and ethos. This in turn equips us to proactively anticipate needs and preferred approaches challenges.
We are known for our friendly, accessible and unstuffy approach without compromising on specialist expertise and excellence. Our support is both personal and professional. We will offer a view, without sitting on the fence.
Lawyers in our independent schools team are associated with ISBA, HMC, AGBIS, BSA and IAPS and regularly attend as speakers at their conferences and events.
We consider it an enormous privilege to work in the sector and we greatly value the relationships we have forged with well over 200 schools as well as with the associations and other professional advisers in the sector.
Recent highlights include our active role in supporting ongoing consolidation within the independent schools sector through mergers, including groups such as St Albans Education Group which is creating, a group of strong, successful schools that are a model for excellence in the sector. We have also supported a large number of schools in changing their pension provision for teaching staff.
