Since making the move to the London Development Agency from air traffic control company NATS last year, general counsel Debbie Adams has set in motion the wheels of change at the body’s legal team.
After inheriting a skeleton legal team of nine secondees and temporary lawyers, Adams earlier this year began hiring a raft of new lawyers at all levels of seniority. She says that her new team will be able to tackle a daily diet of contracts and projects work as well as playing a major role in Adams’ ambitious plan to slash the LDA’s annual legal costs by 3 million pounds. It is no mean feat for a body that is charged with tackling a raft of major projects, including a wealth of complex legal issues surrounding the 2012 Olympics and ensuring the legacy of related development.
