Blackadders LLP

Private Client

Partner

Karen helps clients organise their personal affairs, advising on wills, succession planning, asset protection, inheritance tax mitigation, incapacity, executry administration, the setting up and administration of trusts, including personal injury trusts.

Karen is frequently asked to provide advice to the elderly, vulnerable and assist those who lack legal capacity. She is considered to be one of Scotland’s leading legal advisers on personal injury trusts. 

Qualified 2005

Partner 2015

Trained at Blackadders, worked at Brodies LLP for 10 years, was a partner at Balfour + Manson for 5 years then returned to Blackadders.

Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Accredited member of Solicitors for the Elderly, Accredited specialist for Trusts, Incapacity and Mental Disability Law, Writer to the Signet, Ranked lawyer in Private Wealth Law in Chambers and Partners, Key Lawyer – Legal 500.

University of Dundee LLB Hons and Dip LP 1998 - 2003