Partners Roddy Urquhart (Front Centre)
L-R Gillian Black,Alison Grandison, Stephen Webster, Sara Smith and Stephen Blane
By Ian McConnell
A SCOTTISH law firm at the end of a 145-year connection with its founding family has declared there is “absolutely no need” for it to modernise or have a shake-up, underlining a commitment to “traditional” levels of service.
Urquharts has been operating in Edinburgh since 1876.
The retirement of senior partner Roderick Urquhart will mark the end of its long link to the founding family, the firm noted. However, the remaining partners say there will be no dramatic changes.
Roderick Urquhart's great-grandfather, Andrew Urquhart, established the firm after moving to Edinburgh from Aberdeen. He chose to study law rather than follow his father, who captained tea clippers plying their trade from China to the north-east of Scotland.