Appointments

Edinburgh-based private client firm Murray Beith Murray has announced the appointment of Bill Meldrum as a partner. Mr Meldrum, previously an associate with the firm, became a partner in its property group on 5 August.

Brodies LLP has appointed Elaine McIlroy as partner in its employment and immigration team. With more than 17 years’ experience, she joins Brodies from Weightmans LLP, where she led its UK immigration team and Scottish employment practice.

CMS has announced 22 new promotions across its three Scottish offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Alan Hughes, a senior associate in the firm’s Glasgow real estate team, and Frances Reilly, a senior associate in the energy practice in Aberdeen, have both been promoted to of counsel.

Thorntons LLP has promoted 11 solicitors this month. The promotions have been made across the firm’s Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Fife and Angus offices with seven senior solicitors promoted to associate and four solicitors to senior solicitor.

Brodies LLP has appointed an oil & gas specialist Adam Brooks to support clients operating in the energy industry in the Highlands. Mr Brooks joins the firm as an associate and will be based in the firm’s Dingwall office. With over six years’ in-house experience, working for oil and

Three advocates have been appointed standing junior counsel to the Advocate General for Scotland.Mark Mohammed, Graham R Middleton and Jacqueline Fordyce were all appointed this week. Mr Mohammed, of Terra Firma Chambers, has been instructed in a range of planning, property, commercial, construction

Campbell Clark, a partner in the corporate & commercial team at Blackadders LLP, has been appointed as chair of the advisory board of LEGUS, the international network of law firms, for a two-year term. Mr Clark has been Blackadders’ main LEGUS contact since the firm joined the network in 2

Planning lawyer Fraser Mitchell has been appointed to Shoosmiths as a partner in its Edinburgh-based real estate team. Mr Mitchell, who graduated in law from the University of Edinburgh has moved from Shepherd & Wedderburn in Edinburgh where he was previously senior associate in its planning and

Burness Paull LLP has confirmed three promotions to partner and one new lateral partner hire. The firm has promoted energy lawyers Neil Bruce and Peter Ward to partner.

Former Northern Ireland solicitor and judge Greg McCourt has been appointed to scrutinise reports of searches and seizures carried out across the UK without judicial approval. Mr McCourt spent over three decades in private practice in Bangor prior to spending over a decade as a district judge in Nor

Gilson Gray has welcomed Sarah Feeney from BTO Solicitors to join the family law department, headed up by Philippa Cunniff.

Family law specialists Roger Mackenzie and Emma Letham have joined Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP. Mr Mackenzie, who joins WJM as partner, has specialised in family law since 2005, and led Digby Brown’s family law and adoption practice from 2015. His experience includes acting for indivi

Professor David Cabrelli, professor of labour law at Edinburgh Law School, has been appointed a visiting summer scholar at the University of Oxford. Professor Cabrelli will be conducting research at Oxford until September, hosted by St John’s College and sponsored by the college's Professor Ma

Advocate David Adams has joined Compass Chambers. Mr Adams called to the Bar in 2018 after eight years in practice as a solicitor, rising to senior associate with a Glasgow litigation firm.

Pictured (clockwise from top left): Jenny Broatch, Alasdair Docwra, Lydia Papandrianou, Lucy Metcalf and Clare Macpherson Thorntons has appointed Lucy Metcalf as a director in its family law team in the capital.