In-house best practice October 2018

Aisling McMullan is currently Senior Legal Counsel at Hymans Robertson LLP (a consultancy providing independent pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions, to employers, trustees and financial services institutions).

She covers a breadth of commercial work including providing legal advice in relation to transactional work, strategic decision making, identifying and managing a variety of legal risks and influencing stakeholders at all levels of the business.

Her hands on role also includes working with business functions to identify legal training needs, and designing and presenting effective and engaging training sessions.

Prior to moving in-house, Aisling was in private practice (both at firms in Glasgow and Belfast) with a primary focus on litigation.

Maree trained in Aberdeen, qualifying in 2003.  Following seven years working as a court solicitor in private practice Maree moved to the Scottish Social Services Council, the professional regulator of the social services workforce in Scotland.  Initially a senior solicitor managing a team of seven other solicitors, she is now the Director of Regulation, sits on the organisation’s Executive Management Team, and is responsible for three Departments and 180 staff including 42 solicitors.

During this time the Scottish Social Services Council has grown from registering 35,000 people and holding 62 fitness to practise hearings a year, to registering over 100,000 people, holding 243 fitness to practise hearings a year with a further 50,000 people expected to join the register over the next three years.  

Beth Anderson joined us as the head of in-house member engagement in December 2015.

Beth’s role involves representing and supporting in-house solicitors, whether they work in the public or private sectors and right across Scotland. She is also secretary to the In-house Lawyers' Committee.

Beth trained as a solicitor at Biggart Baillie LLP. She qualified in 2008 into the commercial property team. In 2011 Beth moved to Hong Kong where she worked in-house for Asian based conglomerate, Jardine Matheson. She is well placed to understand both the challenges and the rewards of working in-house.

Ramsay was a partner in private practice before joining Scottish Water in 2008. He is Managing Legal Counsel at Scottish Water’s head office in Dunfermline, leads the commercial legal team and acts as Company Secretary to a number of subsidiary companies.

He holds law degrees from Aberdeen and Strathclyde Universities and is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Technology Law and Practice Committee.

Tony is one of only five civil solicitor advocates in Scotland to be afforded the rank of senior counsel; this is testament to the fact that the majority of his career has been devoted to conducting advocacy in Scotland at the highest level. Tony is the only QC in Scotland to be accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as an expert in professional negligence law.

Tony has conducted litigations, arbitrations, adjudications and mediations relating to a wide spectrum of commercial disputes.

Beth Anderson joined us as the head of in-house member engagement in December 2015.

Beth’s role involves representing and supporting in-house solicitors, whether they work in the public or private sectors and right across Scotland. She is also secretary to the In-house Lawyers' Committee.

Beth trained as a solicitor at Biggart Baillie LLP. She qualified in 2008 into the commercial property team. In 2011 Beth moved to Hong Kong where she worked in-house for Asian based conglomerate, Jardine Matheson. She is well placed to understand both the challenges and the rewards of working in-house.

As Head of Legal and Democratic Services at Moray Council I am responsible for range of services including monitoring officer role, legal, committee, registrars, elections, council tax, rates, benefits, and a council call centre with over 200,000 contacts per year. I started my legal career in private practice and have now been in local government for over 20 years. I’ve moved from transactional work in property, procurement and planning to a wider risk management role. It’s never boring, with a new challenge every day!

Outside of work I like to make the most of the great outdoor opportunities we have in the North of Scotland.

Ramsay was a partner in private practice before joining Scottish Water in 2008. He is Managing Legal Counsel at Scottish Water’s head office in Dunfermline, leads the commercial legal team and acts as Company Secretary to a number of subsidiary companies.

He holds law degrees from Aberdeen and Strathclyde Universities and is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Technology Law and Practice Committee.