England - North West • Public sector
Browne Jacobson LLP
Based in Manchester, Browne Jacobson LLP provides a wide offering to education sector clients, covering governance issues, strategic advice, employment matters, safeguarding issues as well as special educational needs. The team is adept in supporting their diverse client portfolio in complex, high-profile and media-sensitive issues. Education expert Dai Durbridge heads up the dedicated group and is specialised in safeguarding and data protection.While Ian Deakin works with academies, schools and colleges on the full spectrum of employment law issues from day-to-day advice through to complex employment tribunal claims and strategic matters, associate Tom Briant-Evans focuses on academy conversions, transfers and re-brokerages, governance matters and commercial agreements.
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Testimonials
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‘As an education client the key for me is getting timely, robust and sensible legal advice that enable my organisation to judge risk and taken informed decisions. Brown Jacobson as our lawyers provide these requirement at an exceptionally high level, with clarity and a great deal of common sense. All their partners and associates are excellent, plus they cover the topics that effect our Trust with great expertise. The company's unique offer is their breath and depth of knowledge and attention to detail.’
‘Dai Durbridge is our link partner and he is readily available, ensure we get to the right expert and provides expert advice in his own legal fields. He chases the work through and we always get a timely answer. As an organisation we work with a wide range of partners and associates from Brown Jacobson, for which all show the same level of diligence and Dai, which means we can run our organisation in a compliant and robust way.’
Key clients
- Accord Multi-Academy Trust
- Achievement Through Collaboration Trust
- Aspire Education Trust
- Beckfoot Trust
- Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College
- Champion Education Trust
- Changing Lives Learning Trust
- Cheshire Academies Trust
- Coleg Sir Gar
- Consilium Academies
- Corpus Christi Catholic Academy Trust
- Cumbria Education Trust
- David Ross Education Trust
- E-ACT
- Ebor Academies Trust
- Education Learning Trust
- Empower Trust
- Great Schools Trust
- Hope Sentamu Learning Trust York
- Keswick School Multi-Academy Trust
- Learner Engagement and Achievement Partnership MAT
- Learning Accord Multi-Academy Trust
- Leodis Multi-Academy Trust
- Northern Education Trust
- Northern Star Academy Trust
- North West Academies Trust
- Oak Learning Partnership
- Optimus Education
- Pembrokeshire College
- Rodillian Multi Academy Trust
- Salford Diocese
- Sea View Trust
- SS Simon and Jude C of E Multi Academy Trust
- St Joseph’s Catholic MAT
- The Enquire Learning Trust
- The True Learning Partnership
- Three Saints Academy Trust
- Trinity Multi Academy Trust
- Vision MAT
- Warrington Primary Academies Trust
- White Rose Academies Trust
Lawyers
Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Dai Durbridge