DLA loses last Glasgow real estate partner
DLA Piper has been hit by another departure from its Scottish real estate practice, with the exit of its sole remaining Glasgow property partner.
Anne McGregor is leaving the firm following the departure of property partners David Thomson and Graeme Sunter last month.
One associate has been made ;redundant ;and two assistants are set to leave when a redundancy consultation is completed.
McGregor’s departure leaves the Glasgow real estate group staffed by one associate and two assistants.
Scotland ;managing partner Bruce Westbrook denied that the firm was planning to close the city’s property department.
“We’re not shutting up shop and we’re not closing our real estate practice,” he insisted. “We want to be a substantial real estate practice in Glasgow and Edinburgh.”
He added that Edinburgh-based partner Sheila Irvine would move to Glasgow, while real estate head Drew Wallace would spend more time in that office.
McGregor is the seventh partner to leave DLA Piper’s Scottish practice this year and one of the few remaining partners from Bird Semple, which merged with DLA Piper in 2000. Her departure leaves just four former Bird Semple partners at the firm out of the 19 who joined as part of the merger.
Readers' comments (4)
DLA-X | 8-Dec-2008 5:11 pm
DLA in Scotland
DLA is a firm that does not want to admit failure. Closing the Glasgow office would be an admission of failure.
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Irn Bru | 8-Dec-2008 5:17 pm
Sinking ship
DLA's Edinburgh office looks overlawyered now. I think they will be watching the real estate practice closely.
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Glasgow Com Prop Partner | 9-Dec-2008 9:31 am
Probably for the best!
I hate to say it, but this is probably for the best: there were issues in DLA's Glasgow Real Estate team and a clean slate is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Anonymous | 17-Dec-2008 10:48 pm
sinking ship
The real issue with DLA ans particularly the real estate dept is inept management, no firm which loses 7 partners in one year 5 from real estate is being well managed. Edinburgh partners being shipped over to Glasgow? When has that ever worked?
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