Appointments

This week Eoghainn MacLean returns to the commercial bar after a year as a full-time advocate depute leading High Court prosecutions at jury trials, debates, sentencing, and ...

Patience & Buchan associate Gillian Smith has recently been awarded accreditation as a family law specialist by the Law Society of Scotland, having also been recognised independently ...

Professor Laura Macgregor has become the first woman to be appointed to the chair of Scots law in its 297-year history. The chair of Scots law at Edinburgh ...

DAC Beachcroft has announced that a team of five has joined its Glasgow office from BLM Scotland. Partners Louise Gallagher, Gillian Rushbury, Rachel Rough, Iain Buchanan and ...

Sarah Mitchell, a solicitor at Macnabs, has become a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP). Ms Mitchell was recently awarded a STEP Worldwide ...

Kym Samson has been promoted to director at Duncan and McConnell Solicitors in Dundee. Ms Samson graduated from the University of Dundee in 2013 and joined Duncan ...

Four judicial members have been appointed to the Scottish Civil Justice Council. The new members, Lady Carmichael and Sheriff Way, took up their three-year posts on 1 ...

TLT has appointed Andrew Webber as its new UK head of corporate. Mr Webber replaces partner John Wood who led the corporate team for 16 years before ...

Lynne Stewart has been promoted to partner at Ledingham Chalmers. She joined the firm on 1 November from Simpson & Marwick in Aberdeen as its estate agency team ...

CMS has announced the appointment of Eric Gilligan as an of counsel. He joins from Stronachs where he was a partner and head of its employment law ...

Lindsays has announced three promotions as part of its ongoing growth. Louise Norris has been promoted to director within the commercial property team, Lauren Pasi has been promoted ...

Anderson Strathern has partnered with Amiqus, an Edinburgh-based company that provides online anti-money laundering and client onboarding software to regulated firms. Amiqus will provide identity verification software ...

Josef Strand has been appointed an associate at Dentons in Glasgow. Mr Strand, who joins the firm's real estate department, obtained an LLB from Edinburgh University and ...

Law lecturer Malcolm Combe has announced he is taking up a new post at the University of Strathclyde in December. Mr Combe, a solicitor and senior lecturer ...