Karen Phillips > Blackadders LLP > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Blackadders LLP Offices
40 Torphichen Street
EDINBURGH
EH3 8JB
United Kingdom
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Karen Phillips
Work Department
Private Client
Position
Partner
Career
Trained – Blackadders
Qualified 2005
Partner 2015
I trained at Blackadders, worked at Brodies LLP for 10 years, was a partner at Balfour + Manson for 5 years then returned to Blackadders.
Memberships
Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, an accredited member of Solicitors for the Elderly, an accredited specialist for Trusts, incapacity and disability law, a Writer to the Signet.
Trustee, John Watsons Trust.
Education
University of Dundee LLB Hons and Dip LP 1998 – 2003
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
With a strong presence in the north of Scotland, the private client practice at Blackadders LLP acts for a wide range of clients, including individuals, trustees, executors and businesses. The group handles the full range of tax, trusts and executries issues and has a particularly strong personal wealth offering. Laura McDowall and Gillian Brown jointly head the practice, which also includes Johnston Clark and Dale Ross. The team strengthened its estates and trusts planning and administration capabilities with the arrival of Karen Phillips from Balfour+Manson LLP in 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- Employment > Employment
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow