Employment, Pensions & Incentives

We're led by one of Scotland's top performers

"Responsive, attentive and effective". These tributes, plus "highly recommended", are among those used by the likes of Legal 500 and Chambers UK in their independent assessments of our practice.

Based in our Glasgow and Edinburgh offices, we're recognised as one of Scotland's leading employment law specialists. This is scarcely a surprise: our dedicated 10-member team is led by Harper Macleod's co-founder and Group Senior Partner Rod McKenzie. He's widely regarded as a top performer in this field: a former part-time Chairman of the Employment Tribunal and an accredited Law Society of Scotland specialist in employment law, he's listed in the Guide To The World's Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers

Advice that makes business sense. We're not just lawyers, we're business people. That's why we take pride in giving advice on employment transactions and contracts which is down-to-earth, practical and makes complete business sense. So, when we approach all your Human Resource issues - your policies, procedures, contracts, transfers or disputes - we're doing so first and foremost on the basis of our deep familiarity with businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. That relationship is critical.

Specialist guidance on pensions. We provide specialised pensions legal advice, focusing principally on our employment and corporate clients.  We'll oversee the legality of your investments and pension plans, and we'll help you with the best ways to structure occupational pension schemes and pension rights in commercial transactions and disputes. 

The strength of several disciplines. Your employment transactions will often require more than employment law expertise. So you benefit from our Practice Group structure which means we're able to draw on our firm's top minds in other disciplines, such as Corporate & Commercial, Professional & Corporate Compliance, Branding, Technology, Media & Innovation.

Growing popularity of our seminars. We've adapted our seminar programme to reflect the demand from our clients for more sector-specific sessions. It's a format that's proving really popular with key clients who want to focus on issues relevant to their sector. And we're staging these seminars in Inverness, too, where there's a robust and growing Highland Region interest.