Sharpe Pritchard is delighted to have been appointed as one of just sixteen firms on the first London Boroughs Legal Alliance (LBLA) panel which was officially launched on Thursday 15 October 2009.

Sharpe Pritchard has been appointed in the following areas of work which the panel offers its coalition of London Authorities:

• commercial litigation
• company commercial
• construction litigation 
• contracts, procurements and outsourcing
• criminal litigation
• debt recovery 
• education law 
• election law 
• employment law
• housing law
• housing litigation
• information law
• insolvency 
• licensing and gambling
• local government and administrative
• pensions law
• planning law
• PPP and PFI
• property
• regeneration

The LBLA has been set up by a group of London borough councils to reduce legal costs and share expertise. Its members include the London Boroughs of Camden, Harrow, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hillingdon and Hounslow and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. The initiative is expected to save a combined total of c.£1.5m per annum.

John Sharland, a partner at Sharpe Pritchard, expressed the firm’s pride at being appointed to the panel,

“Our firm is renowned for its public sector work and extensive local authority client base. Our appointment across a broad range of work areas is recognition of our breadth of experience and skills as well as the value for money that we offer to the public sector. These panels are becoming increasingly important in the supply of legal services to the local authority market and we are proud to be a leader in these initiatives.”