Biggart Baillie Solicitors

Alison Grant

Partner, Glasgow

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Alison is a commercial litigation specialist, acting in a wide range of complex and demanding matters. She is a pragmatic and direct lawyer, with an enviable track record of successes for the firm’s corporate and commercial clients, often in sensitive and difficult matters.

Alison is heavily involved in professional negligence and risk management work, particularly for solicitors. She is one of the select Panel of Solicitors appointed by the insurers for the Law Society of Scotland Master Policy, to handle professional negligence cases. This involves interface with the insurers and with insured firms, often in complicated circumstances where numerous issues of fact and law must be analysed and balanced.  This appointment has increased Alison’s already high profile in the Scottish legal profession. She is a regular speaker and chair of seminars on professional indemnity and risk management issues for the Law Society and others.

Alison is also accredited with the Law Society as a Commercial Mediator. Mediation is a growing area of Alison’s practice, and she has brought many disputes to a successful close through her mediation skills. Alison’s commitment is always to resolve disputes quickly and fairly.

Alison heads the firm’s debt recovery team, which advises on all aspects of debt recovery and insolvency – related issues.

Clients and fellow professionals recognise Alison’s “enthusiastic and client-focused” approach. She is a popular and well known face in Scottish legal circles, having practised during her career in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, as well as a short period in Dumfries.

Chambers 2011 commented The "determined" Alison Grant heads the team. She has a wealth of experience in defending solicitors.

In parallel with her legal career, Alison is a talented artist who has exhibited at local galleries.