Mr Craig Samson > Blackadders LLP > Dundee, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Blackadders LLP Offices

Dundee
    Blackadders LLP
    10 Euclid Crescent
    DD1 1AG
    United Kingdom
    Visit website 01382 229222 01382 342220

    Mr Craig Samson

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    01382 229222 craig.samson@blackadders.co.uk View profile

    Work Department

    Private Client, Family Law

    Position

    Partner and Head of Family Law.

    Career

    Trained Blackadders; qualified 1995; partner 2001. Accredited Specialist Family Mediator and Collaborative Family Lawyer.

    Memberships

    Chairperson of Consensus, the national body of Collaborative Practitioners in Scotland. Presented to international audience at Consensus Conference in Edinburgh in 2012 and at Milan in 2014. External examiner for family law module for Legal Diploma at Dundee University, lectures students at both Abertay and Dundee on ADR and family law, appointed Safeguarder by local authority and also appointed to do reports at court in contested family cases and adoptions.

    Education

    High School of Dundee; University of Edinburgh (1992 LLB Hons; 1993 Dip LP).

    Leisure

    Cycling, boxing.

    Lawyer Rankings

    Scotland > Private client > Family

    The Blackadders LLP family team leverages its network of offices across Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh to advise clients on the full range of financial and child related family proceedings. Team head Craig Samson, in Dundee, specialises in complex financial claims on separation, while Aberdeen’s Gareth Masson is a go-to for sensitive children matters including relocation and adoption. Joanne Murray has particular expertise regarding domestic abuse cases. The practice gained the expertise of arbitrator and mediator Shona Smith in July 2024, who joined from Balfour+Manson LLP.

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