Kirsten is a director and a knowledge and development lawyer in our Private Client team. Kirsten is an experienced lawyer having acted for clients for a number of years advising on a broad range of private client matters.
Kirsten provides advice to colleagues on complex and technical issues, analysis of new areas of law and collaboration on development and innovation. Kirsten is responsible for, and maintains, the Private Client team’s precedents and manages comprehensive training programmes for all levels in the Private Client team. Kirsten contributes to the content and delivery of training to lawyers across the firm and to the firm’s trainee training programme.
Kirsten is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, having been awarded the STEP Diploma in Trusts and Estates (Scotland) with Distinction and was a 2012 Excellence Awards prize winner.
Kirsten is a member of STEP’s global Professional Development Committee as well as sub working groups and a member of STEP Scotland’s Education Committee. Kirsten is also a tutor on the Diploma in Legal Practice at the University of Glasgow.
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