Bill Drummond, Managing Partner of Brodies LLP, has been unanimously re-elected by his Partners for a seventh consecutive three-year term. Bill, who is one of the UK's longest-serving managing partners, was first elected in 1998 and has been with the firm for 35 years.
Under Bill's stewardship, Brodies has grown from 175 lawyers and staff based at a single office in Edinburgh to 639 colleagues, including 93 Partners and 222 lawyers and other professional advisers, working across four offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Brussels.
Over the same period turnover has risen more than seven-fold from £8 million to £57.94 million, and profits have increased almost eleven-fold from £2.5 million to £27.1 million.
Since Bill was first elected Brodies has improved its range of specialist services and business performance year-on-year. In 2015, Brodies also achieved more top tier ranked practice areas in the independent legal directories than any other law firm in Scotland, and the most lawyers named as 'leading individuals'.
Bill's role at Brodies encompasses not only strategic development, hands-on management and bringing greater transparency to professional development across the firm, but also an ambassadorial and relationship management role for some of the firm's largest clients. In addition to his personal commitment to encouraging Scottish economic growth, including ten years as a Board member, and latterly Chair, of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI), Bill has throughout his career at Brodies promoted and overseen initiatives to encourage greater diversity in the legal profession, skills development among young people and charity fundraising activities for good causes, including Brodies' official charity partner, Maggie's Centres.
