W Graham Sutherland - Partner
Graham was born and raised in the new town of Glenrothes in Fife. He attended Auchmuty High School where his extra curricular interests included sport and music. After suffering a broken collar bone in his first outing for the first XV rugby team he went on to captain the team and through some quirk of fate became the school's first head boy. Graham also played the cornet in the Tullis Russell brass band and trumpet in the Fife Schools Orchestra and the Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra.
After studying law at Aberdeen University Graham commenced a traineeship in a Central Highlands practice before working in a general practice in Shetland. A year with a busy chamber and court firm in Fife followed before Graham joined a previous incarnation of Drever & Heddle, resigning as a partner in 1996 to set up on his own account in Kirkwall. Graham rejoined Drever & Heddle in 2005 and is now principally engaged in conveyancing, commercial and private client work and advising on family law disputes. Graham is responsible for the firm’s civil and criminal Court practice and has served on the local panel of Safeguarders and curators for a number of years.
He is married to a local lass and together they have two relatively young children whom he enjoys spending as much time with as possible. Among his leisure interests Graham lists running, hillwalking, swimming with his family, reading and appreciating the occasional bottle of red although not necessarily in that order. Graham advises that he also speaks Spanish rather badly which is a source of endless amusement to his family when on holiday. Naturally Graham still finds time to blow his own trumpet.