Litigation/insurance and risk.

Trainee W&J Burness 1995-97; solicitor MacRoberts 1997-98; solicitor Henderson Boyd Jackson 1998-99; solicitor Semple Fraser 1999-2001; sabbatical JET scheme, Japan 2001-02; solicitor, associate, partner Brodies LLP (including time with Bishops pre-merger) 2002 to date.

Society for Construction Law; Adjudication Society; Chartered Insurance Institute; The Insurance and Actuarial Society of Glasgow, secretary for their Professional Development Group.

Alisdair has more than 20 years’ experience in resolving disputes in the commercial sphere in rapid and cost effective ways including the use of alternative dispute resolution. His practice focuses mainly on professional negligence claims including those involving solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers, surveyors and construction professionals such as engineers and architects. One of only two people dually accredited in both Professional Negligence and Construction law by The Law Society of Scotland, he is a ranked lawyer for professional negligence in Chambers Legal Directory.

He has a unique profile in the Scottish Insurance Industry being the first lawyer elected President of the 138-year old Insurance & Actuarial Society of Glasgow, the Chartered Insurance Institute's organisation for the West of Scotland. A member of the Society for Construction Law, the Adjudication Society, he is the Scottish member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers’ UK wide Professional Negligence Sector Focus Team.

Cleveden Secondary School, Glasgow; Glasgow University (1994 LLB Hons; 1995 Dip LP).