GDPR privacy by design and default

Rob Marrs, senior policy and development manager at the Law Society of Scotland, demystifies ‘commercial awareness’ for prospective trainees – and explains how it can help them get the traineeship they want.

GDPR privacy by design and default

Instructions for viewing the Find a solicitor page and for accessing the members' area of our website.

GDPR privacy by design and default

A wide-ranging action plan aimed at making the route to qualification as a solicitor as fair as possible has been approved by the Law Society of Scotland's Council today (Friday 31 January).

GDPR privacy by design and default

The Law Society of Scotland is to publish new guidance for solicitors on advising clients about dispute resolution options.

GDPR privacy by design and default

The Brussels office produces monthly updates on the latest developments in subject specific areas.

GDPR privacy by design and default

The Law Society of Scotland joins with colleagues at the International Bar Association and other bar associations world-wide to voice extreme concern over the unlawful arrest of a significant number of lawyers at Çağlayan Court in Istanbul, Turkey on 11 June 2013, during a peaceful demonstration.

GDPR privacy by design and default

The Law Society of Scotland has warned that proposals to reform the blue badge system risk unfairly penalising innocent disabled people whose blue badges are misused through no fault of their own.

GDPR privacy by design and default

Law Society of Scotland Council members have today, Friday, 22 March, congratulated the Campaign for Fair Access to the Legal Profession (CFALP) for bringing forward detailed reform proposals and have agreed to give the plans more thorough consideration through its Education and Training Committee.