Ranking tables
Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR | UK
Scotland
Rankings overview for Lawyers
Spotlight
Amanda Masson Harper Macleod LLP8 Years Ranked
Lesley Gordon BTO Solicitors LLP17 Years Ranked
Lorna Buchan Patience & Buchan11 Years Ranked
Lucia Clark Morton Fraser MacRoberts13 Years Ranked
Robert Gilmour SKO Family Law Specialists8 Years Ranked
Ruth Aberdein Aberdein Considine3 Years Ranked
Ruth Croman Macnabs Solicitors2 Years Ranked
Shona Smith Blackadders LLP23 Years Ranked
Susan Oswald SKO Family Law Specialists11 Years Ranked- Jennifer GallagherLindsays
- Judith A MeilTaggart Meil Mathers
- Judith HigsonScullion Law
- Shona TempletonMTM Family Law LLP
All Lawyers profiles
Spotlight
- Amanda Masson
Harper Macleod LLP | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 8 Years RankedAmanda Masson is an experienced family lawyer and accredited mediator. She acts on a range of financial provision disputes and also advises on issues around child relocation. She also has specialist expertise in issues concerning fertility, surrogacy and non-traditional family structures. - Lesley Gordon
BTO Solicitors LLP | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 17 Years RankedLesley Gordon has a great deal of experience in handling highly contested and complex financial provision matters, including disputes between divorcing and cohabiting couples. She is an accredited family mediator. - Lorna Buchan
Patience & Buchan | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 11 Years RankedLorna Buchan is highly regarded in the market for her strong family law practice. She often advises on the financial aspects of high-value divorces, including matters concerning maintenance, family businesses and cross-border assets. She is a qualified family mediator and arbitrator. - Lucia Clark
Morton Fraser MacRoberts | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 13 Years RankedLucia Clark is based in the firm's Edinburgh office and is recognised for her international experience, advising on intra-UK and other cross-border disputes pertaining to divorce and separation. She also has specialist knowledge of farming cases and is an accredited family mediator. - Robert Gilmour
SKO Family Law Specialists | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 8 Years RankedRobert Gilmour has an impressive track record acting on complex financial provision and children matters, and also has specialist expertise in fertility law and surrogacy. He is a qualified family mediator and arbitrator. - Ruth Aberdein
Aberdein Considine | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 3 Years RankedRuth Aberdein leads the Aberdein Considine family law team from Aberdeen. She offers expertise in divorce and separation proceedings, including financial provision disputes and child contact arrangements, and also assists with the negotiation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. She is also an accredited family mediator. - Ruth CromanMacnabs Solicitors | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 2 Years RankedRuth Croman is managing partner of Macnabs and an experienced family lawyer based in Perth. She has experience in a range of finance and child law-related cases and is particularly skilled in ADR proceedings.
- Shona Smith
Blackadders LLP | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 23 Years RankedShona Smith recently joined Blackadders in Edinburgh. She regularly advises on high-value financial provision disputes as well as private child cases, drawing on her experience as a trained mediator and arbitrator. - Susan OswaldSKO Family Law Specialists | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR2025 | Spotlight | 11 Years RankedSusan Oswald focuses her practice on both public and private children law, including Hague Convention cases and intra-UK jurisdictional issues around care orders and relocations. She is accredited as both a mediator and child law specialist.