We strive to ensure that when we deal with our clients, and with each other, we offer advice and guidance that is clear; seek out the most creative solutions to problems and challenges; and work together in the most collaborative way possible.

Recent examples of how we have applied these values in our work are set out below.

Assisting the Department of Health to shape Health Trust boards

As part of a consortium, led by KPMG and including Morgan Cole, we were awarded a contract by the Department of Health to work with the Boards of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to help them rise to the challenge of their role as commissioners of healthcare services. The DH launched the programme to develop the knowledge, skills and competences of PCT Board members. Consortium arrangements of this kind require a fresh approach to collaborative working where all parties form dedicated teams to work alongside each other's staff and with the client to seek out the best solutions.

As the only law firm appointed by the DH within contract, Morgan Cole brought clarity and focus on important legal and corporate governance issues for the PCT Board members. Together with the other consortium members, we offered PCT Boards a compelling and creative development programme which produced rewarding and valuable experience, led to a tangible improvement in performance and enabled PCTs to deliver real improvements in the quality of healthcare.

Leading a group of professionals to provide guidance to students

Morgan Cole led a group of professional women from the Apex Network* to organise a charity day at Reading Girls’ School, a business and enterprise school. The Apex Network wanted to organise a charitable activity so we took the lead by approaching Connect Reading to find a suitable volunteering opportunity.

Collaborating with the school and the Apex Network members we created a series of workshops to deliver to the students. One workshop focused on work experience where students were given clear advice on how to get the most from forthcoming work experience placements. A second workshop then focused on careers advice with members of the Apex Network talking through routes into professional jobs including law, accountancy, marketing and banking. 

In all, representatives from Morgan Cole and other local businesses HSBC, Osborne Clarke, RBS, Grant Thornton, Barclays and Manches addressed some 200 students aged 13 to 15 years old in a single day.

* The Apex Network is a network for women, created to encourage links between local professional women.  The steering group members are Morgan Cole, HSBC, Ernst & Young, KPMG, RBS and Osborne Clarke.