DLA Piper Scotland is ending 2006 with seven new appointments across a number of its teams - Real Estate, Construction and Engineering, Commercial and Projects and Parliamentary and Regulatory. Real Estate is boosted by three new appointments - Ramiza Mohammed and Barbara Stephenson as solicitors whilst Helen Abrams has taken up the position of associate. Within other teams, Keith Kilburn has been appointed as a solicitor to Construction and Engineering and Philip Hecht and Paula Ward have been appointed as solicitors to Commercial and Projects. DLA Piper’s newest practice within Scotland, Parliamentary and Regulatory, has appointed Colette Watson as a solicitor to work alongside partner, Hazel Moffat. Bruce Westbrook, Office Managing Partner DLA Piper Scotland says: “It is great to be able to attract such a wealth of talent to strengthen each of these teams in Scotland and provide an even better full-service offering for our clients.”