Partner

Lynne Marr

Lynne is accredited as a specialist in employment law by the Law Society of Scotland and is also an accredited mediator. She forges close working relationships with our team's clients and her commercial and straight-talking approach is welcomed by them. She works with clients in various sectors across the public and private sector in Scotland and the UK including public transport providers, universities, government bodies, investment firms and banks.

Lynne advises on all stages of the employment relationship from recruitment, through to termination and beyond. Her work is split between dispute resolution through employment tribunals and on advisory and non-contentious employment law. Lynne advises on equalities issues, business change, transfers and redundancies, industrial action, executive hiring and exits, investigations. She particularly enjoys working with HR professionals to support them on complex HR issues.

Living Brodies' values

Lynne works collaboratively with clients and colleagues, who describe her as hugely supportive, responsive, having great breadth and depth of technical skill and for being pragmatic.

Highlights

Is accredited as a specialist in employment law by the Law Society of Scotland.
Member of the Law Society of Scotland employment law committee.
Member of the Employment Lawyers Association and has contributed to some of its responses to Government Consultations including those relating to public sector specific employment issues.

Rankings

Ranked individual in Employment by Chambers UK 2026.
Ranked as Leading Partner for Employment by Legal 500 UK 2026.

Lynne is able to respond to the most complex and novel questions with ease, providing unwavering support to clients who are facing extremely challenging issues on the ground.

Chambers 2026

The Brodies team is client-focussed, on top of their subject area and capable of approaching a problem in a multi-disciplined way that takes complex issues and brings options and solutions into sharp relief. Lynne Marr has been first-class in delivering positive outcomes in complex matters.

Legal 500 UK 2025

Lynne is always very professional, knowledgeable and responsive to our needs. She also has a pragmatic approach and is very personable.

Chambers UK 2025