Balfour+Manson celebrates career of leading Aberdeen family lawyer
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One of Aberdeen’s leading family lawyers and one of the founding members of Calm Scotland has been officially dined out. Richard Ward, formerly a partner with Duthie Ward and then subsequently a consultant with Balfour+Manson LLP following the two firms merging in June last year retired from the firm on 31 December 2016.A celebration lunch attended by many of Richard’s colleagues, fellow lawyers and professional advisors from across Scotland, took place on Friday 3 February in Aberdeen.Richard was admitted as a solicitor in 1976 and began his practice, initially as a general litigation solicitor with the firm Cooper & Hay in Aberdeen. He then formed Duthie Ward with fellow Cooper & Hay colleague, Alastair Duthie, in 1990. Over the years Richard’s practice became a specialist family law practice and he was one of the founding members of CALM Scotland.
Richard went on to be one of the early cohorts to train as a collaborative lawyer and was a member of the national collaborative law committee, Consensus, laterally. Having stepped away from court work in 2013 he has been one of the leading collaborative lawyers and mediators in Aberdeen and remarked that the last three years of his career were by far the most satisfying.
Richard leaves a flourishing family law practice with Balfour+Manson in the hands of Kirsten Knight and Sophie Pike in the Aberdeen office.
He is looking forward to retirement and the many adventures he has planned in his new motor home, as well as visiting family in New Zealand and becoming a grandfather later this year.
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