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Eversheds LLP stands out for its ‘knowledge, breadth of experience, and standing among peers’. Glynne Stanfield, who heads the firm’s international education practice, advised UCL on its involvement in the £600m UK Centre for Medical Research, and Barnfield College on its restructuring.

Hewitsons LLP joins the top tier this year. Clare Colacicchi’s team has a vast client roster that includes Oxford’s Merton College, independent and maintained schools, further education institutions, and many Cambridge colleges. ‘All partners listen carefully, and they give holistic support on all fronts’.

Gary Attle’s team at Mills & Reeve LLP is ‘totally professional, first rate in every respect’, and ‘excellent, both technically and on issues that cross traditional boundaries of legal expertise’. Clients include the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, King’s College London, and the University of Westminster.

Taylor Vinters’ team is ‘quick, informative and reliable’. Christine Berry combines with employment, property, commercial and IP partners to advise clients such as the University of Cambridge and many of its colleges.

Erika Clarke and Sara Sayer at Birketts LLP are ‘very professional, and make a point of understanding the client’s business’, and Abigail Trencher is also recommended. The team, noted for its ‘first-rate communication and interpersonal skills’, advises universities, further education colleges, schools, and vocational training institutions.

Leathes Prior, under Martin Plowman, provides an ‘excellent, prompt and professional service’; ‘it is incredibly difficult to find any fault’. Katie Franklin is picked out for schools work. Langley School and Thorpe House School are clients.

Stone King LLP’s Roger Inman has ‘excellent knowledge and strong interpersonal skills, and is highly professional’. Now based firmly in Cambridge, he has helped with academy conversions in Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire, and advises the Ormiston academies in Norfolk and Peterborough.

Health

Mills & Reeve LLP is an ‘acknowledged healthcare specialist well known in the sector’. Gill Thomas, Bridget Archibald and Stuart Craig are ‘all excellent lawyers – negotiation skills are a key strength’. Its strong team of associates includes David Stead, who is noted for his ‘sound advice on difficult projects’ including bespoke property arrangements; and Julie Jordan, who delivers ‘wide-ranging, well-considered advice’ on commercial and governance issues.

Birketts LLP has ‘an effective, professional, refreshing approach’. Chris Barker (‘consistent in his attention to detail and enthusiasm’), Erika Clarke and Richard Eaton advise many PCTs, GPs and private sector providers on healthcare reforms.

Eversheds LLP has a vast national healthcare practice, with Owen Warnock and Constanze Hewson contributing their expertise in employment law to many clients in the sector.

Local government

Hewitsons LLP has a multi-disciplinary team acting for clients such as Cambridge City Council and Huntingdonshire District Council. It includes Deborah Sharples, who is outstanding on the environmental side, and Colin Jones, who heads the firm’s M11 Development Group.

Mills & Reeve LLP is ‘very swift, and its advice takes the broad view’. Beverley Firth is ‘user friendly, with excellent judgment, and dedicated’; Nick Finlayson-Brown ‘tends to neither waste time nor waffle’; and Christine de Ferrars Green is ‘very approachable and pragmatic’. First class for property, town planning and regeneration matters, the team advises Norwich County Council, Suffolk County Council and many London boroughs.

Taylor Vinters has a not-for-profit team under Janet Turner QC that brings together some 15 partners with commercial, employment, property, finance and planning expertise. Clients include Babergh District Council and East Cambridgeshire District Council.

Eversheds LLP has a strong national practice, with its advice to local authorities noted as ‘timely, professional and appropriate’. Ian Mather has joined Mills & Reeve LLP.

Consultant Bob McGeady’s planning expertise and in-house experience is a boon to public sector clients of Kester Cunningham John.

At Steeles Law LLP, clients of well-regarded planning and environment specialist David Merson include a London borough.

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