Real People, Real Problems.. .Real Solutions

January 2009

Abstract

KCC (Kent County Council) Legal Services has thrown off the traditional mantle of public sector lawyers. Whilst remaining faithful to the needs of our core corporate client, we have undergone one of the most dynamic and significant transformations within local authority legal circles by engineering major changes to the way we do business. We now operate as an in-house private practice, combining the efficiencies and dynamism of the private sector with the service ethos of the public sector, focused solely on outputs and outcomes that benefit the communities we serve.

Author

Geoff Wild

Director of Governance & Law, Kent County Council, UK

Director of Governance & Law at Kent County Council, Geoff heads up one of the largest teams of local authority lawyers in the country, with 125 lawyers serving over 600 public sector clients nationwide and generating over £2.5m pa profit. It is designed and managed to run as a fully traded business along private sector lines, whilst retaining a strong public sector ethos. Geoff believes passionately that public sector lawyers should dispel their image as bureaucratic civil servants and display their talents as entrepreneurs to be measured against the best across the whole legal profession. Geoff was named Leader of the Year at the Law Society Awards 2011, where the judges described him as “someone who has made a dynamic contribution to legal services in the public sector.” He was named Legal Industry Pioneer at the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards 2012 and 2013, and General Counsel of the Year at the British Legal Awards 2012. He was most recently named the Most Innovative European In-House Lawyer in the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards 2014.

Company

Kent County Council

Kent County Council is one of the largest local authorities in the UK, responsible for governing the non-metropolitan county of Kent. It provides the upper tier of elected local government, below which are 12 district councils, and around 300 town and parish councils. The council is responsible for public services such as education, transport, strategic planning, emergency services, social services, public safety and waste disposal.

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