Legal Services Lincolnshire

Legal Services Lincolnshire is a shared service between the county council and six district and borough councils, created over 10 years ago. 

We are a specialist provider of legal services to the public sector. We give practical advice clients can understand. 

Legal Services Lincolnshire can assist our clients in addressing legislative, economic and political developments, driving improvement in services, value for money and delivering change.

We have vast experience of supporting major projects and coordinating our expertise to provide a seamless service.

Our team consists of experts who have worked for public bodies for many years. We also have lawyers with considerable private practice knowledge. This allows us to satisfy the need of our broad public sector client base.  We understand how the public sector operates and what are the demands put on services in terms of raising performance levels while keeping costs down.

We cover the full range of public law activity including:

• property law from simple transactions to complex school or economic regeneration developments
• civil litigation from debt collection and PI work to judicial review proceedings
• education law
• adult social care law
• mental health law
• children's safeguarding work, including advising the local Children's Safeguarding Board
• adoption and fostering law
• highways law
• planning law including appeal work
• enforcement including trading standards, environmental health, planning and anti-social behaviour
• information law
• contract and commercial law
• local government law, governance and the ethical regime including election law
• employment law