Turcan Connell
No of Partners: 17
No of Assistant Solicitors: 53
Other Fee Earners: 74
www.turcanconnell.com
Turcan Connell started life in 1997 as the de-merged private client offshoot of Dundas & Wilson, which was in negotiations to join the Andersen Legal Network at the time. It has been subsequently joined by the private client teams of many of the other leading Scottish law firms - Burness in 1997, Shepherd + Wedderburn in 1999. In 2001 the firm was joined by the Family Law practice of Alasdair Loudon of Loudons WS and, more recently, has built up employment work for their client base under David Ogilvy.
Turcan Connell now boasts 17 partners and 53 assistant solicitors, focused purely on trust and tax, charities, land and property and family/employment law. The firm also has a number of non-legal fee-earners providing investment management, accountancy and tax compliance services. All but 3 (who work from the firm’s Guernsey office) of the firm’s 211 are based in Edinburgh.
“By focusing solely on private client and charities work, we can provide much greater depth of resource than the private client departments of commercial firms,” says partner, Simon Mackintosh.
Recruitment tends to be from other Edinburgh firms, although the firm does have 2 English-qualified lawyers, and the firm likes to develop and promote from within as much as possible.
“We are looking for good young lawyers with an interest in our areas of practice, with an excellent academic record coupled with practicality, imagination and understanding,” Mackintosh says. “The ability to work as part of a client advisory team including other disciplines within the office and external advisers is very important.”
“At university, many people find the commercial disciplines more immediately exciting, but with maturity, the interest of private client law becomes more apparent,” Mackintosh says. “It’s an interesting mix of law and business. This is definitely a people business – all individual clients are different and our clients are usually dealing with their own money. Commercial awareness and an understanding of the issues affecting our client base such as land reform and charity law reform is also important.”
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