Atlantic Chambers joins consortium
BARRISTERS’ set Atlantic Chambers has been appointed to the North West Legal Consortium.
Liverpool-based Atlantic is one of s number of regional chambers and law firms to have successfully bid to provide legal services to North West local authorities under the new procurement exercise.
The consortium is made up of 25 local authorities, a passenger transport executive and Merseyside Police Authority.
The multi-million pound tender for legal services was set up in 2006 and is led by Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council.
It is the first time in local government that barristers and solicitors have both been chosen in the same procurement exercise to work across 11 legal panels and 14 barrister panels.
Scott Donovan, head of Atlantic Chambers, said: “We are proud to have been one of the first Chambers in the country to obtain Quality Mark accreditation from the Legal Services Commission and are proud to be among the Chambers who have successfully tendered to be part of the NWLC.
“Atlantic Chambers is equipped to provide advocacy across the breadth of local government legal work and is looking forward to being instructed by the region’s local authorities.”
Atlantic Chambers, based in Cook Street, Liverpool, has specialists in civil litigation, personal injury, clinical negligence, occupational disease, professional negligence, criminal law, family law, employment law, public and administrative law and chancery and commercial work.
