LAWRIE IP, the Scottish intellectual property firm, has lifted turnover to £2.6 million from £2.2m in last year and secured gold ranking for its trademark practice.
The Glasgow-headquartered company is now one of only two gold rated firms in Scotland this year in the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals rankings, alongside Brodies.
As well as the overall firm’s ranking, Lawrie IP director and chartered trademark attorney Sharon Mackison received a gold individual ranking and Shirley Collins, also a chartered trademark attorney, was awarded silver.
READ MORE: National Trust for Scotland speaks out over Culloden Moor holiday village bid
Donald Lawrie launched Lawrie IP in 2010 and it has expanded steadily with an increase in turnover in the last five years from £880,000 in 2014/15 to £2.6m in the year to the end of April 2020.
In the last year, Lawrie IP has taken on seven new team members, including trainees in both the patent and trade mark teams. It has also recruited an experienced patent paralegal, an accountant and support staff.
The firm will further strengthen its trade mark practice with the addition of Rachel Denholm, a chartered trademark attorney who has been recruited from rival HGF, in June.
READ MORE: Plan for new homes in Scottish village approved despite objections
Lawrie IP has more appointments in the pipeline and is actively recruiting fee earners as its client work grows.
Over the last 12 months, it has signed up more than 70 new clients, including start-ups, small and medium sized businesses and large corporate firms with established international portfolios.
The firm said the pandemic has seen a rise in the number of fake goods on the market. Founder Mr Lawrie said: “Our values-led culture, which focuses on looking after our colleagues and clients, is the main driver behind the growth in our client base and our employee numbers.”
Last year the firm located to larger premises, moving into newly refurbished offices at 310 St Vincent Street, formerly Whyte & MacKay’s global headquarters.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here