Lindsay Maclean, a solicitor with Gibson Kerr, is currently studying a STEP (Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners) Diploma in Trusts and Estates (Scotland).
STEP is the worldwide professional body for practitioners in the fields of trusts and estates, executorship and related issues. STEP aims to promote the highest professional standards through education and training, and the STEP Diploma in Trusts and Estates (Scotland) education programme is the benchmark trust and estate qualification for trust and estate practitioners in Scotland.
The course consists of four different modules, and Lindsay has now completed three of them. In passing her third module, she achieved the highest mark in Scotland and has been awarded the Trust & Executry Accounting Student of the Year (November) award.
Lindsay will receive her award at a ceremony in London on 15th June 2012.