Ian Lumsden is a Scottish lawyer and partner at Maclay Murray & Spens, a commercial law firm based in Glasgow. He was admitted to the bar in Scotland in 1976 and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge and a Bachelor of Laws.
Background
Ian Lumsden's documented professional life is rooted in Scotland, where he was admitted to practise and where his career has been based. Scottish law operates through institutions distinct from those of England and Wales, and the legal profession in Glasgow developed through local bodies such as the Royal Faculty of Procurators. <cite index="28-6">Procurators in Glasgow once had to be members of the Faculty in order to practise in the city's courts.</cite> <cite index="20-2">The Faculty was the local society of law agents, existing before the establishment of the Law Society of Scotland.</cite>
Education
Lumsden holds a Bachelor of Arts recorded with the abbreviation Cantab, indicating a degree from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Laws. Cambridge is a collegiate university in eastern England, where undergraduates belong to one of its colleges while studying within the university's faculties and departments.
Career
Ian Lumsden is a partner of Maclay Murray & Spens, a law firm whose origins date to 1871 in Glasgow, when it was founded as Scotland's first law firm with a specifically commercial practice. The firm was headquartered in Glasgow and maintained offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London, and it was one of the UK's leading full-service commercial law firms. In July 2017 its planned merger with Dentons, the large international firm, was announced.
Lumsden was admitted to the bar in Scotland in 1976. His career therefore developed within the Scottish legal profession, which operates under its own professional institutions.
Membership
Lumsden is a member of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, one of the oldest legal societies in the United Kingdom, incorporated before 1668. The Faculty acts as the representative body for the Glasgow legal profession and serves practitioners in the city and West Central Scotland. Its royal charter of 1796 formally united the members of the Commissary Courts of Glasgow, Hamilton and Campsie into a single society. Today the Faculty provides members with a large law library and a continuing professional development programme.
