I chose DLA Piper for a lot of reasons. For a start, we are very dynamic and forward thinking. People in this firm have grasped where the profession is heading, and the fact that we now have to act and see ourselves much more like a business to succeed.

I joined DLA Piper as a trainee back in August 2001 and have been with the firm ever since. I have specialised in employment law since I qualified. This offers a mixture of contentious and non-contentious work and has provided me with the opportunity to be involved with employment tribunal work across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. It is an area which has exposed me to a wide client base, including retail, manufacturing, financial and public sectors...

I head up the Glasgow Corporate practice, working locally with a group of seven or eight lawyers who provide corporate and commercial advice to the major banks, companies, institutions and entrepreneurs in Scotland, the UK and internationally. In day-to-day terms, that means we will help clients buy, sell, fund and invest in companies as well as providing them with other general and strategic commercial advice - it's the ‘Dragon's Den’ side of the firm!