Thorntons invests in its teams amid strategic expansion
Promotions have been made across many of the firm’s key service and sector teams, further bolstering its specialist offerings.
The firm, which opened a new office in Glasgow a year ago and its first permanent office in Inverness in April of this year, now employs more than 500 people in Scotland, including 70 partners across its 14 offices.
The latest promotions at Thorntons include:
Tayside
- Neil McWilliam (corporate and commercial), legal director
- Iain Buchan (dispute resolution and claims), associate
- Vicki Alexander (commercial real estate), associate
- Daniel McGinn (personal injury), associate
- Rebecca Ellwood (land and rural business), associate
- Baktosch Gillan (dispute resolution and claims), senior solicitor
- Charlotte Cockburn (intellectual property), senior solicitor
- Corah Franco (wills, trusts and estates), senior solicitor
- Hayley Blackman (corporate and commercial), senior solicitor
- Millie Griffiths (wills, trusts and estates), senior solicitor
- Lauren McIntosh (will, trusts and estates), senior solicitor
Inverness
- Sarah Cooper (dispute resolution and claims), associate
Edinburgh
- Robin Dunlop (land and rural business), legal director
- Andrew Sergeant (commercial real estate), associate
- Columban Young-Smith (ventures and innovations), associate
- Hannah Dossett (wills, trusts and estates), associate
- Ollie Hofford (ventures and innovations), senior solicitor
- Cameron Mathieson (land and rural business), senior solicitor
Glasgow
- Iain Boyd (dispute resolution and claims), associate
- Louise Crichton (immigration), associate
- Megan Craig (intellectual property), senior solicitor
- Hannah Grace (corporate and commercial), senior solicitor
These 22 promotions follow the announcement made last month that Jacqueline Moore, one of Scotland’s leading immigration solicitors, was promoted to partner at the firm.
Columban Young-Smith, recently promoted associate in Edinburgh said: “It’s a great feeling to have my hard work and effort recognised – it’s an exciting time for our team and the wider firm as we continue to progress onto the national stage.
“It’s a testament to the work that the ventures and innovations team has been delivering for our clients to date and I look forward to continuing to help start-ups and scale-ups to thrive, as well as developing my commercial contracts expertise. My new role also allows me to continue to teach the more junior members of the team, a position I take great fulfilment from.”
Lesley Larg, managing partner, Thorntons, said: “We’re extremely proud of all those we have promoted. It’s incredibly satisfying to recognise colleagues located across our locations and teams to further strengthen our full service offering for businesses, families and individuals.
“We welcome the positive impact our newly promoted colleagues have had on the firm, and each is a great example of the outstanding career opportunities available at Thorntons.”
Investing in people is a key priority for Thorntons, which offers high quality learning and development opportunities and industry-leading family-friendly policies including 26 weeks of full pay and 13 weeks of half pay for new mothers and colleagues who adopt, while co-parents can receive 12 weeks of paid leave.
Fully paid shared parental leave is also available and a new 12-week phase back option for anyone returning from maternity or adoption leave was recently introduced. The arrangements enable colleagues to work 50% of their time, over a 12-week period, while receiving full salary to ensure a smooth transition back to the workplace.