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When asked about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) is having on influencer marketing, my first thought was to speak to an interested party. Seeing as I don't know any influencers personally, I decided to ask an AI chatbot, writes Steph Innes. "Write a short article on the legal issue

Carruthers Gemmill, a family-based law firm with a legacy spanning more than 150 years, will become part of BTO Solicitors LLP next month. Under the new arrangement, senior partner Tommy Gemmill, the fifth generation of the Gemmill family, and partner Stephen Watt, will join BTO as consultants in BT

Jones Whyte has announced the appointment of eight newly qualified paralegals who have completed its training academy.

Lindsays has appointed Doran Mitchell as a director in its private client team. Mr Mitchell said: “Lindsays, through its culture, expertise, reputation for quality advice and independent status, feels like the ideal fit for me. I am delighted to get started.

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, with its theme being “Movement: moving more for our mental health”, writes Jodi Gordon. It has long been established that physical illness and injury can impact someone’s mental wellbeing. That link has only become clearer for me ove

A law student has spoken of developing an addiction to cheese so debilitating that she had no choice but to spend around $12,000 on a two-week stint in rehab. Adela Cojab told the New York Post that she would "literally just eat a block of cheese with my hands" almost every day, because it was "the

Bruce Langlands has been appointed as the next director of training and education at the Faculty of Advocates and will take up his new post in July this year. “It is part of the collegiate nature of Faculty that we all seek to help one another,” said Mr Langlands. “My main aim in t

A new law restricting the use of AI-generated 'deepfakes' has been drafted with the use of ChatGPT. Alexander Kolodin, a Republican in Arizona's state legislature, said he relied on the generative AI tool to help him define the term 'deepfake', which generally refers to highly-convincing fake images

Following the announcement that the Lord President, Lord Carloway is to retire next year, senior lawyers have wished him well.

On 12 June, Clan Childlaw celebrated 16 years of delivering its child-centred legal outreach services for children and young people with an event held at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

A cheating husband is suing Apple after his wife was able to access messages he sent to sex workers but had deleted. The middle-aged English businessman deleted the texts from his iPhone, but his wife stumbled across them on the family iMac and subsequently asked for a divorce, The Times reports.

Former president of the Mental Health Tribunal in Scotland, Dr Joe Morrow, is due to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It was announced at the college’s international congress in Edinburgh that Dr Morrow, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, will receive the fellow

Commercial real estate specialist Leanne Hill has joined Blackadders LLP as a partner in Aberdeen. Ms Hill has 18 years’ experience in commercial property in the city and across the central belt of Scotland. She has joined from Pinsent Masons where she was a senior associate.

A prison in Brazil has swapped guard dogs for geese – which authorities say are cheaper and more effective. The São Pedro de Alcântara Penitentiary in Brazil's southern state of Santa Catarina recruited the nine "geese agents" late last year.

Qasim Ali has returned to Lindsays as an associate following a spell away from the firm and will be based at its Glasgow city centre offices. Mr Ali was previously a solicitor with Lindsays between April 2021 and August 2023. He has experience in all areas of corporate law, with clients including in