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The Society's New Lawyers' Coordinator introduces the three-year plan, the New Lawyers' Engagement Strategy, launched this month

Author attempts to find the truth behind the opinion sometimes voiced that a lot of recently qualified solicitors are leaving the law

Further important legislative developments in family law have been foreshadowed by three different sets of proposals published during the summer

The Society will shortly be appealing for profession and public comment on options for proposed new professional standards

A suggested strategy to overcome the lack of knowledge that can be a serious barrier to increasing your business with existing clients

How one family legal practice discovered the way to transform its prospects, and those of the next generation of solicitors, through IT

Strategies to combat the risk of fraud (part 2 of 2): the importance of training and compliance monitoring

Latest criminal cases (and other developments), covering the SCCRC; sentence discounts; ASBOs; search warrants; road traffic penalties; disqualification

The Gambling Act 2005 has many ramifications for licensees of pubs and clubs who offer gaming facilities

The Charity Regulator's view of a number of sticking points with the 2005 Act, and some developments in the regulatory environment

An insolvent football club has helped clarify the rules on administrators' liability for payments under contracts of employment

The Westminster and Holyrood governments are both promising Climate Change Bills. Can they make an impact?

Reviews of sites relating to the European Parliament

Review of Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (Cross and Ford)

Author's 10-point plan to combat the instinctive response of feeling insecure when plunged into change

In-house lawyers' attempts to win recognition of legal professional privilege have been rebuffed by the European Court of Justice in Akzo Nobel Chemicals v Commission

Author argues that most of the leasing work of commercial property lawyers is redundant and it is time they found more fertile ground for their skills

Several dozen transactions have been successfully completed via automated registration, and the system is gathering momentum

A Court of Session ruling on a law firm redundancy marks a fundamental change in TUPE

Multi-diciplinary practices are coming, and present opportunities for small firms as well as large to improve their prospects for the future

Different solicitors' opinions as to whether the public will benefit from alternative business structures, plus a proposed scheme for regulating MDPs

The Scottish Law Commission has new proposals to align the system of prior and legal rights with modern social conditions

The main provisions and likely practical impact of the new legislation on corporate homicide

An overview of the work of Eurojust, a collaboration of EU prosecutors and judges, and its relationship with other law enforcement agencies