Local Government

About

Provided by Sharpe Pritchard LLP

Sharpe Pritchard is a long-established leader in local government work. The firm advises local authorities on the full range of local authority legal subjects, including vires, constitution, formation of companies and charities, joint ventures, state aid, procurement, commercial law, real estate and planning, construction, dispute resolution, administrative and public law, Parliamentary Agency and electoral law.

The firm has long standing contractual arrangements with a number of local authorities where it provides comprehensive legal services, sometimes with secondees embedded in the local authority legal department. 

A substantial number of the firm’s lawyers were previously employed by local authorities, and several are former heads of legal departments.

Sharpe Pritchard stands apart from its competitors in terms of the sheer number of local authorities with which it works and the volume and value of the local government-related matters on which it is instructed.

The firm is on most of the major local authority legal panels, including EM Lawshare, the London Boroughs Legal Alliance, North West Legal Consortium and the CCS Wider Public Sector national panel.