James Kidd is a British lawyer and partner at Bermans, a commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool and Manchester. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 17 April 1948, he practised law as a member of the firm's partnership.
Background
James Kidd was born on 17 April 1948 in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow was then the largest city in Scotland and had come through the Second World War comparatively unscathed by bombing, although the shipbuilding and heavy industry on the Clyde that had sustained the city were entering a long period of decline.
After 1945 the city faced pressing housing needs. The Clyde Valley Regional Plan of 1946 identified the need to disperse between 250,000 and 300,000 people from central Glasgow, and the postwar years saw movement to new towns such as East Kilbride and Cumbernauld and to housing schemes such as Castlemilk, Drumchapel and Easterhouse. The National Health Service, introduced in 1948, provided health care based on need rather than ability to pay.
Career
James Kidd is documented as a partner of Bermans, a commercial law firm. The firm was founded in 1970 in Liverpool by Keith Berman, and it expanded across the North West of England, opening a Manchester office in 1985 and moving its Liverpool office to Pioneer Buildings in 1990 and then to Exchange Station in 2005.
Bermans describes itself as a multi-award-winning, full-service commercial law firm with offices in Manchester and Liverpool, with particular recognition in asset finance and invoice finance. Its practice areas include corporate, commercial, insolvency, property and construction, employment, and litigation. A Scottish company, Bermans (Solicitors) Limited, was incorporated in Glasgow in 1989 and dissolved in 2013.
