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New research carried out for the Society into experiences of ethnic minority solicitors suggests an improving position but one still far from ideal

Recent work of the Society's Law Reform Department, featuring taxi etc licensing, equality, criminal law, pensions, child maintenance, policing, employment, patents, judicial factors, legal services

A note from the Insurance Committee on a question regarding intimation of circumstances

With clients increasingly seeking fixed fee quotations, can legal practices respond and still remain profitable? Solicitors and consultants around the country give their views

Advice column: should I be expected to attend work social and team bonding events in addition to putting in long hours?

Why communication is a major risk issue for solicitors, and how the risk of claims and complaints arising from communication failures may be minimised

Latest civil cases, including title and interest to sue; separate defenders and grounds of action; interim interdict; minutes to sist; appeals

The law regarding maintenance obligations with a cross border element in the EU is about to change

Some practical challenges for legal firms and their clients posed by the TUPE Regulations, in relation to client tenders and other potential service transfers

What the Protection of Freedoms Bill 2011 means for Scotland

More details have been published about the National Employment Savings Trust, an option for employers when pension provision for employees becomes compulsory next year

Reports of cases relating to Richard Allan Sandeman; Paul Saunders Jardine

A brace of websites looking at the law from many years ago

Reviews of Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years (ed Sutherland and others); Cybercrimes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis (ed Ghosh and Turrini); Boundaries of the Criminal Law (Duff and others)

A guide to the Government's Final Guidance on the Bribery Act 2010, which comes into force on 1 July 2011

The prospects for a challenge to the legislation on which the crofters of the Pairc Estate rely in their land rights dispute with their landlord

A recent decision has negatived an attempt to seek payment of the price due under concluded missives without entry having been taken

Why a change in the legal aid regulations is likely to result in many fewer counsel and solicitor advocates being willing to undertake civil legally aided work

President's message: preparing for the AGM revealed how much work went on at the Society in the year under review - and it continues

Opinion column: it's time for Scottish legal firms to catch up with their counterparts south of the border in promoting respect for diversity in sexual orientation

Registers of Scotland page: Scottish Legal Awards; specialist masterclass; Meadowbank House upgrade; eServices support hours

A recent upsurge in jury awards in bereavement cases may force the courts to rethink their own valuations of such cases, and parties' solicitors the forum in which they are brought

A sheriff's practical tips for the uninitiated in commercial procedure, which has proved popular with regular users in the courts where it operates

The educational needs of autistic children, and recent case law on the duties of an education authority in meeting those needs