He is well respected by clients and fellow professionals and has built a strong reputation in his handling of complex and high value, often multi-party, professional negligence claims on behalf of solicitors and their insurers under the Law Society of Scotland Master Policy Scheme and acting for engineers, architects and other professionals across the construction sphere. He has handled many of the largest and highest profile professional negligence cases in Scotland and has been described as "everything a client is looking for”.

In addition, Alan has in-depth experience of resolving professional liability claims on behalf of accountants, financial advisers, surveyors, contract managers, planning consultants, estate and forestry managers and educational institutions. He has also handled the defence of a number of significant D&O and management liability claims. In addition, he represents professionals in conduct and service complaints and has represented individuals and corporate clients in the pursuit of claims against professionals for negligence and breach of contract.

CORE mediation accreditation qualifies Alan to act as a mediator and enables him to recognise when it is in his clients’ best interests to adopt creative, solution-driven approaches. He regularly represents clients in mediations and is actively involved in training on ADR. He recently achieved mediation re-accreditation through the ADR Group.

He is also a Member of the Law Society of Scotland Insurance Committee, is a regular presenter of training and is involved in a number of mentoring programmes for clients, students and other young professionals.

Alan is recognised for favouring a pragmatic and commercial, yet thorough, approach to claims, focused on achieving his clients’ desired objectives as efficiently and economically as possible.