Scottish councils appoint ten firms to £2m legal panel

A group of Scottish councils has named ten law firms to a legal services panel worth an estimated £2m.

The local authorities involved are: Glasgow City Council; South Ayrshire Council; East Renfrewshire Council; Argyll and Bute Council; and North Ayrshire Council.

The framework agreement was divided into the following lots:

1. Education prosecution.
2. Employment.
3. Corporate.
4. General Litigation.
5. Children and Families.
6. General conveyancing.

The successful firms were:

• Anderson Strathern (Lots 1, 3, 5, 6)
• Brodies (3)
• Burness Paull (3, 6)
• JK Cameron (5)
• Clyde & Co (2, 4)
• DLA Piper (3, 6)
• Harper Macleod (2, 3, 4, 6)
• MacRoberts (2)
• Morton Fraser (4, 5)
• Shepherd and Wedderburn (6)

Last October Glasgow and North Lanarkshire were among four Scottish local authorities to appoint eight law firms to another £2m legal services framework agreement.

That framework was divided into the following lots: Land & Property; State Aid, Competition, Vires and Judicial Review; Infrastructure and Projects; Contentious Construction; and Rail related Infrastructure and Projects.