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Housing group names Essex Legal Services and 22 firms to £12m panel
Greenfields Community Housing has appointed Essex Legal Services alongside 22 law firms to a legal services framework agreement estimated to be worth up to £12m.
- Details
The agreement was divided into the following lots:
- Property
- Development
- Housing Management Advice
- General Commercial
- Employment
- Financial
The successful firms were:
- Anthony Collins Solicitors (lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Batchelors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Bevan Brittan (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Birketts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Capsticks (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Clarke Willmott (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Devonshires (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Direction Law (1, 2)
- Ellisons (1, 2, 3)
- Essex Legal Services (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Holmes & Hills (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- Howarth Goodman (2)
- Moon Beever (3)
- Nockolds (1, 2, 3)
- Oracle (4, 5)
- Penningtons Manches (1, 2, 3, 5)
- Perrin Myddleton (1, 2, 3)
- Sharratts (1, 2)
- Spire (1, 2, 3, 4, 6)
- Stephensons (1, 2, 3, 5)
- Stephens Scown (1, 2, 3, 4, 6)
- Tees (3, 4, 5, 6)
- Trowers and Hamlins (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Greenfields has previously said the framework agreement, which is to last four years, will also be made available to members of the Procurement Alliance for Essex.
Head of Governance & University Solicitor
Up to £66,537 per annum
Lawyer (Sabbatical)
£50,788 per annum
Head of Legal Shared Service
Up to £89,000 per annum
Assistant Director - Legal & Governance
£72,686 - £81,742 per annum
Senior Lawyer - Advocate
£46,731 - £49,764 per annum
Director of Legal and Governance (Monitoring Officer)
£88,185 per annum

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