Plug & Play Law
at Inksters

Inksters is the foremost fee-sharing law firm in Scotland with by far the largest number of consultant solicitors and the greatest geographical reach.

Working with Inksters as a Freelance Consultant gives you more of the fees you generate; complete freedom of how, where and when you work; and allows you to focus on doing the legal work you love to do.

PLUG

Inksters have created the law practice infrastructure for you to plug into. All the technological and personnel support you need to just do the law is at hand and at your disposal. 

PLAY

When you join Inksters as a Consultant Solicitor you will be immediately up and running your own legal practice under the Inksters brand and all the extra benefits that will bring to you.

LAW

You can concentrate on just doing the law and leave the red tape of running the business to Inksters. As a result you can maximise your fee income by just doing the work you love to do.

ABOUT PLUG & PLAY LAW 

Plug & Play is a term for Law Firms coined by Mitch Kowalski in his book ‘The Great Legal Reformation: Notes from the Field’ that features Inksters

Mitch Kowalski refers to Plug & Play Platforms when describing law firms such as Inksters who have developed a model where senior lawyers can work as a collective, with enhanced technology and back-office support. Where a hub-and-spoke model exists with a back office “hub” (Inksters have that in the Inksterplex in Glasgow) and “spokes” elsewhere (Inksters’ spokes are currently in Aberdeen, Cumbernauld, Dunkeld, Edinburgh, Eigg, Forfar, Inverness, Lerwick, Portree, Renfrew, Thurso and Wick). These spokes grow depending on where new consultant solicitors are geographically based.

9 Benefits of Joining Inksters

The nine benefits of joining Inksters as a self employed consultant rather than setting up on your own or with others or, indeed, being employed by or in partnership with other solicitors:-


YOU CAN JUST DO LAW

YOU HAVE COMPLETE FLEXIBILITY ON YOUR OWN TERMS

YOU ARE REWARDED FOR WHAT YOU DO

YOUR COSTS WILL BE REDUCED

YOU GET ALL THE BENEFITS THAT A LARGER ORGANISATION CAN OFFER

YOU BECOME PART OF AN AWARD WINNING LAW FIRM

YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A DIVERSE RANGE OF CLIENTS

YOU HAVE THE BEST TECHNOLOGY TO ASSIST YOU

YOU GET BRIAN INKSTER

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Awards

 Inksters are award winners for the Plug & Play Law model that allows self-employed / sole trader lawyers to flourish

FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards -Scotland Winner - Inksters - Self-employed - Sole Trader of the Year

Scottish Federation of Small Businesses Award 2022

Inksters were the Scotland Winner of the FSB Self-employed / Sole Trader of the Year Award 2022 for Plug & Play Law.

FSB UK Self-Employed Sole Trader of the Year 2022

UK Federation of Small Businesses Award 2022

Inksters were the UK Final Winner of the FSB Self-employed / Sole Trader of the Year Award 2022 for Plug & Play Law.

Interested in learning more about Plug & Play Law?

Arrange a Chat with Brian Inkster

You have nothing to lose and everything to potentially gain by arranging an initial informal chat with Brian Inkster to hear more about the unique proposition that is Plug & Play Law.

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Consultant Testimonials

Don’t take our word for it – here’s what our consultant solicitors say:

The Inksters’ model is excellent.

Firms who offer flexible working like Inksters show faith and trust in their people by allowing this model. This is why they are Forward Thinking Lawyers.

The flexible working model gives me and Inksters, the edge in being there when the client needs us. I can, at my choice, work into the wee small hours, then regather strength after rest-time of choice, and serve the client’s and Inksters’ requirements, and get a job done.”

I’m able to be more available to clients as I’m not tied up in administration.

Inksters, demonstrably, is a practice where a single practitioner can have an office established for them.

I’m much more confident to represent Inksters than my previous firm. Inksters is more modern in approach and ethos.

I was ‘credentialised’ by meeting the requirements of the Inksters brand, and given access to products established in the market. Entering networking situations, I confidently brandished the Inksters’ reputation I had been allowed to buy into.

With satisfaction I listed the achievements of the firm, and was often pleased to find positive opinion of the firm already present in fora I visited. At networking events I was a happy salesman who held a product that was an ‘easy sell’ to potential clients, a product which, moreover, allowed me to unsettle even the largest competitors.

A big difference to other firms I have worked in is that Inksters has no hierarchical structure (before or beyond Brian Inkster), and that Brian is willing to consider and build upon ideas of worth that are presented to him.

I have inhabited offices where employee achievement, out of turn, was dangerous folly, and where partnership itself promised only to lock ambition and initiative in a firmer a stalemate than employment. At Inksters there is a general culture of respect and encouragement and a free potential for Brian to effect change.

What is apparent and quantifiable is the amount of effort that Brian puts into a project when he sees merit in it.

The culture here makes me feel more valued. I don’t have to justify to anyone why I’m going to my kids’ events. There’s also autonomy and mutual respect here. Brian is key to what is happening. He has a very clear vision.

I see how much time it would take me to do the things that Inksters is doing for me and there’s value in that.

It has genuinely been the first law firm setting where there is a lack of competition between the solicitors as we are all collaborating towards the common goal of servicing our clients to a high standard and making sure we can all eat at the end of the month. It is a truly unique trait of the firm which is worth its weight in gold.

I have two young children and had reached a point in my life where I thought I might have to make a choice between my family and my career. However, the freedom and flexibility afforded by Inksters’ fee-sharing model means that I can now excel not only as a lawyer, but also as a mother.

Team Inksters

Be part of a growing team of forward thinking lawyers doing law just that little bit differently

Brian Inkster - Inksters Solicitors

Brian Inkster
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Founder & CEO

Derek Flyn - Inksters Solicitors

Derek Flyn
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Legal Consultant

David Flint - Inksters Solicitors

David Flint
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Consultant Solicitor

Alan Stewart - Inksters - Renfrew

Alan Stewart
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Consultant Solicitor

Rory Cradock - Inksters Solicitors

Rory Cradock
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Consultant Solicitor

Steven Aitken - Solicitor - Inksters Solicitors

Steven Aitken
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Legal Consultant

Joanne Romanis
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Consultant Solicitor

Robert Wild
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Consultant Solicitor

Jacqueline Harkins

Jacqueline Harkins
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Consultant Solicitor

Steven McDonald
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Consultant Solicitor

Alan Watt - Inksters Solicitors - Cumbernauld - Plug and Play Law

Alan Watt
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Consultant Solicitor

Sylvia MacLennan
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Solicitor

Stephanie Christie-Carmichael

Stephanie
Christie-Carmichael

Consultant Solicitor

Laura King
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Consultant Solicitor

Gerald Segal
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Consultant Solicitor

Sarah Windsor

Sarah Windsor
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Consultant Solicitor

Charlotte Platt
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Consultant Solicitor

Jackie Jobson - Inksters Solicitors

Jackie Jobson
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Consultant Solicitor

Katherine Paulin

Katherine Paulin
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Consultant Solicitor

Alastair MacDonald

Alastair MacDonald
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Consultant Solicitor

JacQui Lochhead
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Elder Law Consultant

Brian Johnston
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Consultant Estate Agent

Diane Ireland
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Legal Process Engineer

Fiona Bracelin
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Cashroom Manager

Karen Hughes - Inksters Solicitors

Karen Hughes
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Legal Administrator

Carol-Ann McKenzie

Carol-Ann McKenzie
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Legal Administrator

Eilidh MacGregor - Inksters Solicitors

Eilidh MacGregor
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Legal Administrator / Receptionist

Irene McKinlay
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Legal Administrator

Sandra Taylor

Sandra Taylor
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Legal Administrator

Rose McMahon
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Legal Administrator

Mark Lochhead

Mark Lochhead
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Legal Administrator

Lynda Carson

Lynda Carson
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Legal Administrator

Susan Russell

Susan Russell
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Legal Administrator

Locations

Inksters
Plug & Play
in 13 places 
throughout
Scotland

We currently have bases in Aberdeen, Cumbernauld, Dunkeld, Edinburgh, Eigg, Forfar, Glasgow, Inverness, Lerwick, Portree, Renfrew, Thurso and Wick. A greater geographical reach than any other law firm in Scotland. But you can Plug & Play anywhere with Inksters. Just let us know where you want to Plug & Play and we will see if we can make it happen.

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Latest News

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Brian Inkster and Alan Watt - Inksters Solicitors - Cumbernauld

Alan Watt and Watt Law join forces with Inksters in Cumbernauld

Alan Watt has joined Inksters as a consultant solicitor under the ‘Plug and Play Law’ model. Alan founded Watt Law in 2011 and has operated as a sole practitioner from[…]

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Two more Consultant Solicitors join Inksters

Two more Consultant Solicitors join Inksters

Inksters have strengthened their team with the addition of two more consultant solicitors. Gerald Segal, who previously worked for Inksters from 2013 to 2020, returns as a consultant solicitor. Gerald[…]

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Inksters 24th Birthday

Twenty four

Inksters is twenty four today. We opened for business on 1 May 1999. A lot has happened since then. New Offices In the past year alone we have opened in[…]

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Contact Brian Inkster

If you are interested in a new and unique opportunity where you can ‘plug and play’ at Inksters then contact Brian Inkster for a confidential discussion on 0141 229 0880 or e-mail brian@inksters.com or use the contact form below (which will go directly to Brian).