People on the move

ADDLESHAW GODDARD, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and elsewhere, has made three senior hires to its Corporate & Commercial team in Aberdeen. Jennifer Cham, previously with LEDINGHAM CHALMERS, joins as a managing associate, while Gemma Hills, previously with BRODIES, and Emma Sinclair, who joins from an in-house position at oilfield service company WEATHERFORD, have both been appointed legal directors.

ANDERSON STRATHERN, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Haddington and Lerwick, has announced the promotion to partner of Gary Burton (head of the catastrophic personal injury unit) and Robbie Wilson (head of the medical negligence unit), both in the firm’s Healthcare, Public & Regulatory team; and the promotion to director of Elizabeth MacGregor (Commercial Property/Rural Land & Business), Tom Docherty and Gillian Murray (both in Dispute Resolution), Robin Turnbull (Employment, Immigration & Pensions), Karen Craig (Rural Land & Business), and Fiona Savage (Commercial Property).

BALFOUR + MANSON, Edinburgh and Aberdeen has promoted Will Wallace, in the Residential Property department in its Edinburgh office, to associate.

BLACKADDERS LLP, Dundee and elsewhere, has appointed Philip Buchan WS, a director at the firm since 2020, as its new head of Rural Land & Business.

BRODIES LLP, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, London and Brussels, has opened its new Inverness office at Clava House, Cradlehall Business Park, Inverness IV2 5GH (t: 01463 214390; f: 01463 211487). The former office at Dingwall has relocated there.

Kavita Chetty, formerly head of legal and strategy at the SCOTTISH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, has joined the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT as deputy director for human rights and mainstreaming, on a three year fixed term.

CONNOR MALCOLM, Edinburgh intimate that David Devlin retired as a partner of the firm with effect from 31 August 2022 but will remain with the firm as consultant. It is also intimated that with effect from 1 September 2022, Scott Brown has been assumed as a partner.

FRIENDS LEGAL, Glasgow and Edinburgh, has acquired the firm of GARDEN STIRLING BURNET, Dunbar, Haddington, North Berwick and Tranent. The Garden Stirling Burnet name will be retained, while becoming part of the Friends Legal network. Directors Alan Borrowman, Angela Craig and Ian Philp will remain with the firm in new consultancy roles.

GILSON GRAY, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and North Berwick, has appointed John Kydd, a litigator and accredited mediator, as a partner in Dundee. He joins from THORNTONS where he was a partner.

HARPER MACLEOD, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Elgin, Thurso and Lerwick, has appointed Bill Stark as a debt and asset recovery consultant. He joins from MORTON FRASER.

LEGAL SERVICES AGENCY LAW CENTRE, Glasgow announces the retirement of its principal solicitor Paul Brown, who has developed and built up LSA and its work since its inception more than 30 years ago.

LEVY & McRAE, Glasgow and Edinburgh, has expanded its Property team with the appointment of Jon Findlay, who joins as a legal director from JOHN JACKSON & DICK; Paul Kenneth, who joins as a partner from WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON; and Elaine McKinnon, an experienced paralegal who joins from FREDERICK & CO.

LINDSAYS, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, has appointed Jordan Hay as a senior solicitor in the firm’s Private Client team in Edinburgh, and solicitors Gemma-Grace Johnstone and Maddie Miller, to the Commercial Property teams in Dundee and Edinburgh respectively. Lindsays has also appointed four former trainees to permanent qualified positions with the firm: Ronan Duff (Personal Injury, Glasgow), Stephanie Goudie (Commercial Property, Glasgow), Deborah O’Donnell (Private Client, Dundee), and Curtis Preston (Corporate, Edinburgh).

Jamie McArthur has left his role as company solicitor for ARNOLD CLARK, to take up a new position with DENTONS HELIX.

McKEE CAMPBELL MORRISON, Glasgow has appointed employment law specialist and mediator Laura McKenna to head the firm’s newly launched employment law and HR division. She joins from MORTON FRASER.

MBM COMMERCIAL, Edinburgh and London, has announced the following changes to senior leadership roles within the firm: Tracey Ginn, partner, becomes head of Corporate; Tim Edward, partner, becomes head of Dispute Resolution; and Gail Downes, operations and HR director, becomes the firm’s first non-lawyer managing director.

MORTON FRASER, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, has moved its Glasgow office to a new hub at 1 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 1RW (t: 0141 274 1100; f: 0141 274 1129).

SHEPHERD AND WEDDERBURN LLP, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and London, has appointed Peter Smith as a Commercial Property partner with effect from 1 August 2022, heading the firm’s Real Estate team in the Aberdeen office. He was formerly a partner with BURNESS PAULL.

Shepherd and Wedderburn has also appointed accredited agricultural law specialists Petra Grunenberg as a partner from 5 September 2022, and Ellen Eunson as a director from 18 August 2022, in its Rural team. Formerly partners in BLACKADDERS, where Ms Grunenberg led the Rural team, both will be based in Shepherd & Wedderburn’s Aberdeen office.

THORNTONS LAW LLP, Dundee and elsewhere, announces that Andrew Bird, formerly with SLATER & GORDON, has joined the Private Client team in Cupar as a solicitor.

Legal services company VIALEX, Edinburgh, has announced the appointment of Steven Dunn as a legal director heading its Pensions & Immigration Law team. He was previously with ANDERSON STRATHERN where he was head of Pensions and senior associate for immigration law.