Town have appointed Laura McCallum, who was previously working at Scottish Premiership Aberdeen, to the role of general counsel.

McCallum is the club’s first ever in-house general counsel, although former managing director Ian Milne and before him board member Roger Finbow, now PLC chairman, were both lawyers.

Prior to four years as general counsel at Aberdeen, Glaswegian McCallum had been head of football administration and legal affairs at Dundee United for close to two years.

Earlier in her career, she was with Harper Macleod and for a year worked at Lombardi Associates, an agency specialising in football disputes, some heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Between March 2021 and May 2024, McCallum was on the Sport Resolutions panel of arbitrators and mediators and was also on England Hockey’s dispute complaints panel for five years until last summer.

She has been the company secretary of Scottish Athletics since 2018 and spent a year as a non-executive director of British Curling.

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Bazza8564 added 13:38 - Sep 23 might be useful if the EFL stitch us up over saturdays game
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MaySixth added 13:43 - Sep 23 Random appointment.
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MaySixth added 13:44 - Sep 23 Depressingly, lawyers and accountants are very important in football these days.
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tractorboybig added 13:48 - Sep 23 bazza8564 how will they stitch us up? We were crap, loosing and down to ten men. Unfortunately there is a very strong possibility the score will stand
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blues1 added 14:00 - Sep 23 Tractorboybig. We were crap? Stats say something very different. They suggest it was a very close game.And uehs, sometimes stats,can be a bit misleading but some fans who were there said we were still giving it a good go, even after the red card. Even after the red card, they only had 1,shot on target, and that was the penalty. Yes, we were down to 10 and were losing 1-0, but are u seriously saying it wasnt possible we could have got an,equaliser in the 10 minutes plus time added on? Regardless of how we were playing? Dont think its so clear cut that the game will be awarded. More,chance maybe with it being an efl match. If it was an fa competition the rules state it would have to be replayed in full. What will be will be tho.

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Bazza8564 added 14:24 - Sep 23 Well, it wasnt a fan led incident that can be blamed on us, there were 16 minutes left assuming the average added on time, and there was only one goal in it. I suspect anything other than a replay in full will result in us taking action against the EFL. Oh and losing only has one O
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senduntd added 14:39 - Sep 23 I think tractorboybig may be shrinking. Whats more he can't spell.
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head1970 added 16:15 - Sep 23 Box ticking
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OliveR16 added 17:39 - Sep 23 Her knowledge of Scottish law will prove very useful if Suffolk is somehow integrated with the Scottish legal system. Seems a little speculative to me.
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SussexTractor added 17:48 - Sep 23 ITFC is a multi £ million business and I welcome this appointment to protect the clubs interests. This includes in dealing with the EFL and match abandonment.
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Gforce added 19:09 - Sep 23 Good solid Glaswegian grit,that's what we need,welcome aboard Laura !
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flykickingbybgunn added 19:41 - Sep 23 Good grief. We need a permanent lawyer ! Permanent grounds staff, office people, trainers, drivers, cleaners and maintainence I understand. But lawyers are just trained to take money from people in distress. Having worked with them all my professional life I would not trust any of them to look after a bag of apples let alone put them on a permanent basis.
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bluelad7 added 21:36 - Sep 23 Phil - can you not have a highlight that confirms a budgie troll is posting? It annoys me that we waste time defending our club. Just block the jealous idiots.
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