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From the Professional Practice team: an update on letters of obligation; and acting in a transaction between cousins

Some law firms really are practising innovative ways to get more from staff while reducing working hours. One is Glasgow's Conveyancing Direct: what has been achieved to date?

Apology v admission... where do we draw the line? The authors explore how far it is safe to go under the Apologies (Scotland) Act 2016 in relation to complaints and claims

Advice column: should I drop hints to a colleague whom I know to be facing the axe?

Innovative use of IT underpins many of the 30 projects set out in the Law Society of Scotland’s annual plan for the 2017-18 practice year

It is time for letting agent businesses to prepare for the new registration and training requirements coming into force next year

A festive invitation, and a chance to feed back to Registers of Scotland

In association with Altis: the Altis conveyancing platform has the potential to ease client concerns over the property transfer process, as well as increasing business efficiency

The prescribed court form for disclosure of assets in divorce proceedings is fundamentally flawed and illustrates a lack of enticement towards full and early disclosure in Scots divorce procedure

Will the legal services review see the end of the Society's dual role? Would this be serious for the profession? The author describes the equivalent experience of patent and trade mark attorneys

Content marketing is an excellent way of positioning your business and driving growth, but for it to be effective you need a strategic plan for colleagues to follow

A report by the Gingerbread charity highlights the difficulties faced by “receiving” parents in enforcing payment of child maintenance via the Child Maintenance Service

With flight cancellations much in the news recently, this briefing outlines the remedies available for cancellations within the airline's responsibility, and for delays

This month's selection of leisure reading, chosen by the Journal's book review editor

The SLC’s proposal to adopt the English “serious harm” test for defamation attempts to tackle a problem not found in Scotland, would add to costs and probably result in litigation moving to England

Review of Criminal Sentencing as Practical Wisdom (Brown)

Ian Forsyth works in the External Relations team and is the Law Society of Scotland’s public communications executive

This month we can celebrate a successful annual conference, but my interest also centres on the financial benchmarking survey and what it tells us about many members who work “for the greater good”

Registers’ knowledge-base microsite with its support for customers has developed in the year since its launch; however, we want to hear how to improve it further

Collected news of new appointments and practice changes

As the Brexit clock ticks, to what extent are clients needing advice – and what can legal firms do to help, amid the continuing uncertainty? The Journal put these questions to some larger practices

When the review of legal services looks at the Society, what will it find? We met the convener of the body which has achieved a quiet revolution in the Society's regulatory operations in its six years

While session topics at the Society’s annual conference ranged far and wide, one in particular focused on the challenges of supporting the most vulnerable and needy

Bigger law firms are not always the best performing, whether in generating income or in profitability. That is just one of the interesting findings from the Society's new financial benchmarking survey