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McLintock, Wiseman take over as Society office bearers
First all-female team at helm of solicitors' professional body
Society seeks survey partner for new look Cost of Time
Analysis expertise sought for broader benchmarking exercise
Online voting boosts Society Council turnout
Six new faces among 10 successful candidates
"Young person's game"? Society study looks at place of experienced lawyers
Paper is latest in series on equality and diversity
Society's AGM agenda published
Busniess includes PC fee vote and ARTL mandates rule change
Society appeals for goods as staff to run Nepal charity shop
Six to give a day raising funds for earthquake survivors
Society announces move to modern offices
New central Edinburgh location to be confirmed
Society Council voting now open
Polling in five areas runs until 20 May
Smaller law firm finances picking up, benchmarking report finds
Concerns remain over funding of legal aid practices
Society supports unrestricted civil legal aid in revised paper
New proposals call for exploring of single grant system
Man found guilty of disturbance at Society's office
Aggressive behaviour accompanied by showing picture of gun
SLCC calls for improvements in conduct complaint handling
Recommendations follow analysis of Society's five year performance
Society announces Council election candidates
Contest to take place for eight out of 10 seats to be filled
Lawyers honour their Great War dead with new memorial
Society hopes to create full record of those who fell
Solicitors urged to stand for Society's Council
Nominations open today for 10 seats in May election
Evening fixture for Society's 2015 AGM
28 May meeting will set practising certificate fee for 2015-16
Society seeks partner to create online property one-stop-shop
Tender invitation to develop conveyancing transactions portal
School debaters win through to Dewar tournament final
Four teams to contest top prize at Holyrood in June
Society and Faculty call for better client confidentiality protection
Professional bodies' consultation responses call for stronger safeguards
All PC renewal to be online from this year, Society confirms
Nine week window to operate from late August
Who'd want to be a criminal legal aid lawyer these days?
Matthew Thomson, solicitor and legal aid policy officer at the Law Society of Scotland, looks at the challenges and motivation for today’s practitioners
Optimism growing in Scottish profession, Society survey finds
61% now report confidence in the future for solicitors
JABS steering group tackles barriers to the bench
Group outlines proposals to help increase diversity in judicial appointments
Proposals over Scottish Parliament are ‘political rather than legal’
Society highlights challenges of Smith Commission recommendations over permanency of parliament