Our membership of practising Scottish solicitors has grown dramatically over the last 70 years, and is now over 12,000. From 1 November 2019 - 31 October 2020, we will GROW our membership and income by being a vibrant, influential and inclusive organisation through the following four projects.
We will review the success of the Accredited Paralegal Scheme, promote the revised Scheme of Operation and consider new practice areas in line with market need.
We will review uptake of current categories and consider new categories and their relevance to the profession both now and in the future.
We will help keep the cost of practising as low as possible by:
- Growing non-core income through commercial activity to help keep the cost of practice as low as possible and reduce the dependency on the core practising certificate fee
- Increasing our market share for the provision of CPD in Scotland for solicitors and those employed in firm
- Delivering a leading programme of member benefits that offer value to, and support the values of, our members
We will:
- Grow our numbers of practising members past the landmark 12,000 achieved in 2019
- Increase our number of accredited paralegals to 750
- Develop the Fellow non-practising member status
- Expand our student associate scheme through the recruitment of 500 new associate members
- Add 100 legal technologists with the launch of this new associate membership category
- Add 100 law accountants following the launch of this new associate membership category
Annual plan 2019/20
Our annual plan for 1 November 2019 – 31 October 2020 includes 27 ambitious and exciting projects to help us to deliver our five strategic goals to ASSURE, SERVE, EXCEL, INFLUENCE and GROW.
