Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Trainee solicitors across Scotland could benefit from a pay boost following an increase to the Law Society of Scotland recommended pay rate.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Love Kathe Herén is a first-year LLB student at Aberdeen University, qualifying in a degree of law with English law. As an international student, she shares some of her thoughts about how to thrive in a new environment far away from one’s previous home.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Sarah Beattie is a Diploma student at the University of Dundee, having previously completed her accelerated LLB in Scots law at the University of Dundee. Sarah will be graduating in June 2017.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Christopher Knudsen is a trainee solicitor at North Lanarkshire Council, Legal and Democratic Solutions. He is coming to the end of his first seat in Asset and Information and will shortly be moving to a seat in Licensing and Litigation.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Our anonymous blogger from Pinsent Masons completed their traineeship with the firm, splitting their time between Scotland and London before qualifying into Pinsent Masons’ Construction Advisory and Disputes team. They now work on a range of disputes within the infrastructure and energy sectors.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Katie Wood, Head of Admissions, explains how she supports trainee solicitors on our confidential helpline – starting with nagging!
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Kundai Phute, Governance Solicitor at Aberdeen City Council, reflects on her first few months as an in-house solicitor and some of the things she loves about her move over from private practice.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
The Law Society of Scotland has said it is frustrated and disappointed after the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) laid its final budget before the Scottish Parliament.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
At this month’s ‘CPD for In-house Lawyers’ seminar, Amanda Jones – Head of the Employment, Pensions & Immigration team at Maclay Murray& Spens LLP – spoke to us about gender pay gap reporting. Here, Amanda reflects further on what this means for organisations and those involved with collating the data.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement today, Tuesday, 25 April, of an independent review of legal services, saying that current legislation governing the legal sector is no longer fit for purpose.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Read the April edition, for all the latest EU developments.
Professional Practice Updates - July 2017
Solicitors hoping to represent their local constituencies as Council members on the Law Society of Scotland’s decision making body have just two days left to submit their nominations.
