Sponsored by: Winner: Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, East Midlands Development Agency and Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club This multi-agency partnership between district, counties, the RDA and cricket club helped secure funding to save and transform one of the country's most historic cricket grounds. FINALISTS: (Click on the links to read councils' submissions to the judges) Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire County Councils Colchester Borough Council Hertfordshire County Council Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council Liverpool City Council Liverpool One – The Paradise Project South Gloucestershire Council Commended Amey Roads and North Lanarkshire Ltd London Borough of Bexley Bristol City Council and Bovis Homes Durham City Council Liverpool City Council Enterprise Liverpool Ltd Three Counties Alliance Partnership About the sponsors: Dickinson Dees LLP is a UK Top 50 law firm and one of the leading independent regional firms in the UK providing a full range of services for corporate, public sector and private clients. Dickinson Dees prides itself on the high quality and personal service it offers clients, providing complete transparency from pitch to proposal to project. Its stable partnership, high growth rate and impressive staying power make it one of the most successful law firms in the UK today. The firm has an excellent reputation for its work in the public sector and over the last 12 months, has executed a huge amount of high profile work across the length and breadth of the country with a capital value of public sector deals closed in excess of £1 billion. The firm acts for a number of public sector clients on a wide range of schemes of regional and national significance including a series of Building Schools for the Future projects, where the firm advises Newham, St Helens, Doncaster and Stockton amongst others. The firm also has expertise in the waste sector, advising Cumbria and Northumberland on waste PPP projects and is well known for its experience in regeneration projects, where it has worked for local authorities including Hull, Macclesfield, Newcastle and Croydon. Legal 500, the clients guide to the legal profession, quotes Dickinson Dees' work in the public sector as "ever more impressive." Described as a "national player" Dickinson Dees "continues to attract major local authority work both in the region and beyond." [Legal 500, 2008] Back to the MJ Awards Home