Addleshaw Goddard (AG) and Irish law firm Eugene F Collins are to merge. The business, people and all 25 Eugene F Collins partners will become part of the Addleshaw Goddard group by 1 March 2022.
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Balfour and Manson senior associate Michaela Guthrie has gained a Law Society of Scotland accreditation in medical negligence law. Ms Guthrie joined Balfour and Manson as a trainee in 2014, spending the final year of her traineeship working closely with partner Ann Logan. She has specialised in medi
A Lord Ordinary has quashed a decision of a tribunal that a sheriff should not be removed from judicial office after he was found to have acted inappropriately towards a female lawyer. A petition challenging the decision that Sheriff John Brown was fit for office was made by the lawyer, X, who argue
Farrah Mahmood and Nick Harbison have both been promoted to the position of associate director at Scullion LAW in Glasgow. Ms Mahmood said: “I am absolutely delighted to be promoted to associate director at Scullion LAW. It is an incredible opportunity in recognition of my achievements, effort
Scottish business sentiment remained positive in the fourth quarter of 2021, but the rising cost of energy impacts prospects for 2022 and operates as a drag on the outlook for economic growth, despite the easing of pandemic restrictions. The results of the latest Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Bus
Thorntons has bolstered its Dundee conveyancing team by merging with Kim Barclay Solicitors. Founder Kim Barclay began her career at Thorntons, later launching her own successful residential property and will and executory practice – and two decades on she is rejoining the team. Paralegal Fion
Editor's note: All animals are cancellable, but some are more cancellable than others. That is the inference to be drawn from the manner in which we pick and choose history's villains. David Hume is out but Marie Stopes, eugenicist and admirer of Adolf Hitler, is apparently in. Edinburgh Council has
Anderson Strathern Asset Management, the financial planning and investment business wholly owned by Scottish legal firm Anderson Strathern LLP, grew funds under management to £341 million in 2021, up from £250m in the previous year. Graham Clark, CEO, said: “Market uplift contribut
JUSTICE has warned that Dame Elish Angiolini will encounter "institutional defensiveness" in her inquiry into the rape and murder of Sarah Everard. JUSTICE working party chair Sir Robert Owen has written to Dame Elish, copying in Home Secretary Priti Patel, in respect of the public inquiry into the
Scotland's justice sector is to be "transformed", the Scottish government has announced. Its new strategy will ensure sure "victims' voices are heard" and will place women and children "at the heart of service delivery" in addition to reassessing the role that prisons and the use of imprisonment sho
The Scottish legal system can be a mystery to English lawyers and there are plenty aspects of Scots law which are (understandably) entirely alien to our friends south of the border. One area of practice on which Scots and English lawyers can agree is the principles applicable to the interpretation o
Digby Brown Solicitors has confirmed every staff member can now take one day off for charity work. As the personal injury firm has 285 employees it means as many as 285 days can be used to help good causes.
Thorntons now has 47 qualified mental health first aiders across the business. The firm invested in the training to place a stronger focus on mental health and wellbeing as society emerges from the pandemic.
Rosemary Gallagher spoke to 'Colston Four' barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, who has been named lawyer of the month in our sister publication Irish Legal News. She discusses the chance events and encounters that led her to a life in human rights law. Barrister Blinne Ní Ghrá
“They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Frida Kahlo, 1953. In the second week of LGBT+ History Month, Shepherd and Wedderburn continues its exploration of politics in art. Lucy Campbell looks at the life and work of Fr
