Director, Yuill+Kyle – STEPHEN COWAN

Sometimes you can measure professional friendships by the age of your children – and certainly in this interview Claire’s daughter Alice was just a tiny tot when she first met Stephen Cowan of Yuill & Kyle in Glasgow. Alice is now 28! So in this interview Claire and Stephen chat about their long careers as solicitors – Claire in England and Stephen in Scotland – and how both of them took a journey to modernise their firms to create niche practices. Over the years Stephen put Scottish debt recovery on the map and shared an insight on what it means to enforce a judgment in Scotland. As Claire is half-Scot herself – she has always been fascinated by the difference in the two legal systems. Catch up with these two old friends as they chat about Stephen’s journey and his achievements so far!