Lisa Rae & Co Court Solicitors

05/02/2026

Happy 8 year work anniversary to our fabulous legal secretary, Tracey Brown! Thank you so much for all your hard work and everything you do. You’re a ⭐️! ###

23/12/2025

Our office is now closed for Christmas. We will reopen at 9am on Monday 5th January. Wishing all our clients, colleagues and friends a very Merry Christmas when it comes. 🎅🏼 🎄 🎁

16/11/2025

Lovely afternoon at the rugby courtesy of our friends at Brodies! Thank you Garry! The company was far better than the Scotland score 😂🙈❤️

19/10/2025

We often provide legal advice to kinship carers navigating court or children’s hearing processes, which can be daunting.

Great to hear about this new helpline now available to provide wider support for kinship carers, open 7 days per week, on the number below.

15/10/2025

We are recruiting an Apprentice Paralegal. Exciting opportunity to start a legal career with a busy child and family law firm in Edinburgh city centre.

25/03/2025

Big congratulations to Kirsty Paul and Amy Malone, officially admitted as solicitors today! Well done ladies! You are both wonderful lawyers already and great assets to the LR and Co team!

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18/03/2025

Edinburgh Uni looking glorious in the sunshine this morning. I had a great time delivering my annual lecture on the Children’s Hearing System to this year’s Diploma students. ☀️ 👩🏻‍🏫 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day from the LR & Co team! 💥 🩷 💪🏼 👩🏼‍⚖️

03/03/2025

This really is an issue. We often have agencies working with survivors of domestic abuse contacting us, seeking representation for them as they have struggled to find a solicitor.

Despite being based in Edinburgh, we are also regularly contacted by women in Aberdeen, Inverness and further afield who cannot find any local solicitors offering legal aid to assist them. Unfortunately we do not have the capacity to take on this work either.

There are often financial elements to separation and divorce, including financial abuse in some cases. There are very few firms left who will take on financial cases under legal aid as it is simply not profitable nor viable to do so.

As well as survivors of abuse struggling to find legal aid representation, those accused of domestic abuse are too. This means that there are an increasing number of cases where either, or both, the alleged perpetrator and the victim are left to self represent in complex and sensitive civil court proceedings. This increasingly common scenario causes significant difficulties for the parties and for the courts in dealing with such cases expeditiously.

Please use the link below on the Law Society’s post to sign the pledge to support access to justice for all.

26/02/2025

This is also so true of solicitors offering civil and children’s legal aid. We absolutely want to do our best for our clients and strive to do so. However the pressures of the legal aid crisis is crippling the profession. The Scottish Government has failed to engage or take seriously the enormity of this problem. Without very skilled and highly valuable legal aid practitioners in all fields, access to justice will be on it’s knees within years. Please sign the pledge to support those committed to helping people in need of support at their most vulnerable times.

Tony Burgess, a criminal defence solicitor in Aberdeen, detailed the harsh reality faced by many lawyers.

He said: "The only way to provide representation to all those in need is to give less time to each case, which impacts the service given to each person.

"Legal aid lawyers absolutely don’t want to do that, so they work 12-hour days to deliver the same standard of service and do right by those in need, but their own health and work-life balance suffers.”

We need more support for solicitors working in legal aid. Sign our pledge: https://bit.ly/4jrNEOh

18/11/2024

Some photos from the Law Awards of Scotland in Glasgow on Friday. We didn’t win this time but it was great to be nominated in two categories! A fabulous night and wonderful to celebrate the hard work of our talented child and family law team! Not to mention meeting the icon that is Judge Rinder!

15/11/2024

Tonight’s the night of the Law Awards of Scotland! Very excited to have all the team here . Good luck to all the nominees! 🥂