Colleague stories: Scott Briggs

Life as a trainee in Glasgow: Scott’s experience

Scott Briggs qualified as a Solicitor in December 2025, after completing his traineeship in our Glasgow office. After seats in Private Client, Personal Injury, and Commercial Property, he joined Lindsays’ Personal Injury team, where he had worked as a Case Coordinator before his traineeship.

Why I chose Lindsays

I was speaking to the trainees when I was working in the Personal Injury team at Lindsays and they had nothing but positive things to say. When it came around to applying a year later, I knew this was the perfect place for me.

All the time I’ve been here, I’ve always felt supported. It’s a great office and a great team, the workload is good, and the cases are interesting. So I'm really happy to be staying here.

Highlights of my traineeship

Personal Injury was my favourite seat because I enjoy going to court. It’s what I've always wanted to do.

But the other seats had highlights too. With Private Client, as with Personal Injury, you can make a real difference in people’s lives, which is a nice thing to do. And with Commercial Property, it’s cool to walk past a building in Glasgow and know that I worked on the lease for it!

My contact with clients

In Personal Injury, you get your own cases as a trainee at Lindsays, so I had about 40 of my own. You're the main point of contact, you email them, you call them, meet them in person, whether at court or elsewhere. In comparison, some of my friends at the bigger firms didn’t really meet the clients or get any responsibility.

Support and training at Lindsays

I would say the culture at Lindsays is extremely supportive, you never feel alone and you’re not thrown into anything unprepared. At the same time, you’re exposed to high-value clients, which is good.

In each seat at Lindsays, you have a buddy who’s a senior solicitor. They look out for you, and if you have any questions, you can call them or send them an email. All my buddies have been excellent. Everyone responds to questions, so you're never sat waiting, worrying about how to do something.

Our soft skills training has also been useful for learning different strategies or hearing from other colleagues about how they manage their work. I’ve attended workshops on time management and effective communication, as well as specialist advocacy training with the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow.

Would I do anything differently?

If I was starting my traineeship again, I would ask more questions. At the start I didn't want to be a burden on the solicitors or the partners, but most lawyers are very happy to talk about their work. You learn so much more by being engaged.