Donald Reid retires after 49-year legal career
Glasgow lawyer Donald Reid has retired after a 49-career in the legal profession.
Mr Reid was a specialist consultant and former chairman of Glasgow-based Mitchells Roberton. As a partner since 1978 and chairman from 1997 until April last year, he oversaw a sustained period of growth in the firm which can trace its involvement in Scottish legal affairs back to the Jacobite rebellions in the 1700s,
Born and raised in Glasgow, Mr Reid gained an MA in Philosophy from Glasgow University in 1971 before receiving his LLB two years later. He was apprenticed to Russell & Duncan and qualified as a solicitor in 1975.
It was with this firm – which was later subsumed into Mitchells Roberton – that he was rostered to the district courts, including the Marine Court, which dealt with the then busy dockland community.
He said: “I represented the overnight custody accused when they appeared in court in the morning. My record in trials was 100% guilty verdicts. I decided criminal law was not my forte.”