Michael McMillan is a British lawyer and a partner of Bermans, a commercial law firm founded in Liverpool in 1970. He was born on 15 February 1944 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the capital of Scotland.
Background
Michael McMillan was born on 15 February 1944 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh has been Scotland's capital since the fifteenth century, when it became the seat of the royal court, the Privy Council, Parliament and the law.
The city's legal character was established early. The Court of Session, Scotland's central civil-law court, was set up in Edinburgh in 1532. After the Act of Union of 1707 ended the city's role as a political capital, Edinburgh remained home to the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary, keeping it at the centre of the Scottish legal profession.
Scottish solicitors are represented and regulated by the Law Society of Scotland, which was established by statute in 1949. Its origins lay in earlier efforts to form a national professional body for solicitors, which began in the early nineteenth century.
Career
McMillan worked as a partner of Bermans. The firm was founded in 1970 in Liverpool by Keith Berman and grew into a multi-award-winning commercial law firm with offices in Manchester and Liverpool.
Bermans is a partner-led firm, and its practice areas include litigation, corporate and commercial law, insolvency, property and construction, employment and intellectual property. The firm has also served the asset finance and invoice finance sectors, areas in which it is recognised for specialist expertise.
The firm also operated in Scotland through a solicitors' company named Bermans (Solicitors) Limited, which was incorporated in 1989 with a registered office in Glasgow and was dissolved in 2013.
