Appointments

Sarah McWhirter has been promoted to principal lawyer at Slater and Gordon Lawyers. Ms McWhirter joined the firm in 2017 and heads the Edinburgh medical negligence team. She represents clients from all over Scotland in a wide variety of claims covering all aspects of medical negligence, including cl

Shepherd and Wedderburn has promoted four of its lawyers to partner and two to legal director.

Lady Rae has been elected Rector of the University of Glasgow.

Clyde & Co has announced the promotion of Sarah Crewes to equity partner in its Edinburgh office as part of its 2021 promotions round. Ms Crewes joined the firm in 2015 as an insurance litigator. The majority of her practice is defence and coverage work arising from professional indemnity claims

Balfour and Manson has announced three appointments to its Edinburgh office. Martin Lavery has joined the firm as a private client solicitor. Mr Lavery started his legal career as a trainee with Morton Fraser where he undertook a varied traineeship before deciding to specialise in private client wor

Jan Gruter has been promoted to partner at Addleshaw Goddard in Glasgow. Mr Gruter joined the firm in 2018 as legal director, and has acted on behalf of a range of asset and fund management clients, especially private equity, real estate and infrastructure fund managers.

BTO Solicitors LLP has announced that Caroline Carr, partner and head of the firm’s employment law team, has been accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in employment law for the fifth consecutive time in her career, having first received the accreditation in 2001.  Thi

Lindsays has expanded its private client team with the appointment of Leann Brown. Ms Brown, who will be based in Dundee, brings with her 12 years of experience of working across the full spectrum of private client work, wills and powers of attorney, setting up trusts, elder client law, th

Aberdeen University's Dr Justin Borg-Barthet has been appointed to the European Commission's Expert Group Against SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation). The expert group, established as part of the EU’s European Democracy Action Plan, will advise the Commission on initia

New law firm Esson & Aberdein has taken on two new recruits. Paralegal Shari O’Hare and Lynn Nesbitt, a qualified surveyor and estate agency specialist, have joined the firm.

Four solicitors have combined to establish a new legal firm based in Glasgow city centre.  Stacy Campbell, Maureen Matheson, Fraser Morrison and Alan McKee have launched McKee Campbell Morrison (MCM), a law firm specialising in corporate, commercial and residential property, private client, dis

Anderson Strathern has hired European dealmaker Max Scharbert as a director in its corporate practice. Mr Scharbert is a former partner at Rooney Nimmo and is the longstanding chairman of the German British Chamber of Industry & Commerce in Scotland, and is qualified in German, English and Scots

Criminal firm MTM Defence Lawyers has appointed a new senior solicitor as it sees an upsurge in domestic abuse cases, which now account for around 33 per cent of its caseload. Andrew Seggie has joined MTM at a time when private client cases are continuing to grow in number and complexity.

Lindsays has promoted Louise Norris and Rachel Holt to the respective roles of partner and associate. Ms Norris works in the commercial property department, where she was previously a director. Her promotion is the sixth in seven years at Lindsays, which she joined as a solicitor in June 2014.

David Welsh has joined Exchequer Chambers, having completed his pupillage under barrister Harry Hodgkin of Clerksroom. Mr Welsh, who called to the English bar in 2019, is also a member of Axiom Advocates and obtained dual-qualification as a solicitor in Scotland and England & Wales bef