Lindsays

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

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.

The post-lockdown house-move boom has seen Lindsays defy disruption to record a rise in the number of homes sold in the past 12 months. Sales by its residential property division rose by 4.3 per cent in the last financial year, with homes valued at a total of £177.3 million changing hands

Edinburgh property lawyer Andrew Diamond has been appointed as the new chairman of ESPC. Mr Diamond, a partner and head of residential property at Lindsays, has worked in the residential property sector for nearly three decades and has been a non-executive director of ESPC for more than five years.

Lindsays has expanded its operations with the launch of a human resources consultancy. Prism HR has come into being as companies face a range of employment issues as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the effects it has had on business.

Ian Beattie, Lindsays' chief operating officer and chairman of scottishathletics, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Mr Beattie's award has been given for services to athletics after a long competitive and voluntary career in the sport. As well as being scottishathle

Caroline Fraser has joined Lindsays' private client team in its Dundee Office. Ms Fraser is well known for her work across the full spectrum of private client matters, from wills and power of attorney to issues surrounding care and inheritance tax.

Top row (L-R): Curtis Preston, Deborah-Anne O’Donnell, Molly Duncan, Ronan Duff. Bottom row (L-R): Sophie Gardiner, Sophie Richardson, Stephanie Goudie, Stewart Forrest. Lindsays has welcomed eight new trainees to its teams in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.

Lindsays has recorded its busiest ever month in the property market with sales topping £31 million in August. The firm reported that home sales in August were up by 80 per cent compared with the same month last year.

Employers should prepare for a wave of personal injury claims from people working from home, The Times reports. Ben Doherty, head of employment law at Lindsays, said that companies risk lawsuits if they fail to support staff wellbeing.

Investors remain interested in the Scottish commercial property market despite the coronavirus crisis, a lawyer has said. Derek Nash, partner at Lindsays, said that demand was “robust” throughout the crisis and that the trend towards working from home did not mean the end of the office.

Lindsays has announced that David Rose has joined its commercial property team as a partner from Dentons. Mr Rose has decades of experience at the forefront of the commercial property market in Scotland.

Property developers and their contractors could find themselves at legal loggerheads unless Scottish government guidance and legislation on construction work during the coronavirus crisis is made clearer, an expert has warned. Andrew Boccoli, who leads on advice to the construction sector at Li

Katherine McAlpine and Rhian Griffiths have joined Lindsays. Ms McAlpine, who joins the firm’s Dundee team as a senior solicitor, will be providing advice on a wide variety of commercial litigation matters including debt recovery, insolvency issues, contractual disputes as well as landlord and

Lindsays has rewarded five rising stars with promotion. Two new partners have been appointed, along with a senior associate and two associates.