Carol McCormack heads the five-partner local government team at Michelmores LLP . In 2006, the firm was appointed to the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors panel, servicing 16 local authorities. The team also acted in regeneration schemes for Wiltshire County Council, Torbay Council and Mid Devon District Council. Clients remark on the firm's ‘highly professional advice, delivered in empathy with our requirements'.

Michelmores LLP's highlights include advising Wiltshire County Council and West Wiltshire District Council on a £90m waterside development in Trowbridge. Carol McCormack OBE heads the practice.

Michelmores' public sector practice has gone from strength to strength, with notable work including acting on Department for Constitutional Affairs projects to build and renew courts

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