About Us - Partners
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Craig Bennet
Former employee of Macbeth Currie & Co, Craig joined Morgans as a Legal Assistant in 1994 becoming an Associate in 1996. He then became a Partner with effect from 1st September 1997. Craig graduated from Edinburgh University in 1990 before joining Macbeth Currie in 1991. Craig specialises in residential and commercial conveyancing work as well as the preparation of wills, executries, guardianships and general commercial business. Following the retiral of Blair Morgan, Craig now assumes the role of Senior Partner.
Claire L. Morgan
Claire joined Morgans in 1999 as an assistant Solicitor and was assumed as a Partner. She deals predominantly with residential conveyancing work. Claire graduated from Strathclyde University and trained with John G. Gray, Edinburgh and Thorntons, Dundee. She also has a Management Business Degree from Napier University.
Russel McPhate
Russel graduated from Strathclyde University in 1986 and after completing the post graduate Diploma in Legal Practice trained with Carruthers & Co in Lerwick, Shetland. He moved to Fife in 1990, became a partner in Dunfermline firm C-A Petrie in 1999, then a sole practitioner from 2000 until joining Morgans in 2003. Russel deals predominantly with court matters including matrimonial, criminal, and all types of civil litigation.
John Morris
John graduated from Dundee University in 1994 and after completing the Diploma in Legal Practice he then trained with A.C. Morrison & Richards in Aberdeen. He then moved to Lochgelly in 1997 and thereafter to McKay & Norwell in Edinburgh until joining Morgans in 2003. John is primarily involved in residential conveyancing.