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DWF has announced its results for the year that ended 30 April 2018. Revenue increased by 18 per cent from £199 million to £236m, while profit per equity partner also increased. Andrew Leaitherland, managing partner and CEO, said: “This has been another very strong year for DWF, wi

Partner Jacqueline Leslie (second from left) receives the firm's accreditation from STEP representative Gemma Copestick Harper Macleod has become one of a select group of practices to be recognised as an 'Employer Partner' by STEP, the global professional association for practitioners who speci

Dentons has announced that it is one of the first law firms to partner with Women Returners Scotland, which aims to help qualified lawyers to re-enter the legal profession after an extended period away.  Women Returners Scotland is supported by the Scottish government with funding from the

Professor Hector MacQueen has recorded an account of the laws of medieval Galloway with particular reference to the period between 1150 and 1300.

An advert in the programme for the Wigtown Book Festival has thrown up its own bit of mystery, in the shape of an advocate’s wig. The illustration for Well-Read Books of Wigtown, proclaimed as the town’s newest bookshop, features the wig and a bunch of grapes.

The Scottish Paralegal Association (SPA) was established 25 years ago. It remains the only association recognised by the Law Society of Scotland as representing the interests and promoting the development of Paralegals in Scotland. The SPA host a number of well-attended events around the country whi

All 25 prisons in the US state of Pennsylvania were put on lockdown recently after prison staff fell ill from exposure to a mysterious drug. Nearly 30 employees from ten different facilities have reported the symptoms of nausea, dizziness, tingling and a scratchy throat.

Criminal lawyers in Edinburgh have withdrawn from a legal aid duty scheme covering the Justice of the Peace court because there are too few solicitors to do the work. Ninety-one criminal law members of the Edinburgh Bar Association, belonging to 35 firms, have stopped providing cover to the Scottish

Brexit will bring an end to the high-level co-operation between the UK and other EU countries on extraditions, the Lord Advocate has said. James Wolffe QC told MSPs that as a result of Brexit extraditions such as those of Slovakian murderer Marek Harcar, who killed Glasgow sales executive Moira Jone

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will not reconsider its decision to reject Ireland's application for a revision of the 1978 "Hooded Men" judgment. In March, the ECtHR dismissed the Irish government’s application to revise Ireland v United Kingdom, in which the court found that

A leading QC has been elected chair of Faculty Services Limited, the company which provides administrative and other support services for advocates. Geoff Clarke succeeds Peter Gray QC, who stepped down after almost four years in the post.

Adam Smith has joined the commercial property team at Thorntons LLP. Mr Smith advises clients on a range of property matters, including the sale and acquisition of commercial property, and negotiating commercial leases for landlords and tenants.

Murgitroyd, a global intellectual property attorney firm headquartered in Glasgow, has reported a seven per cent increase in underlying profits to £4.1 million. The firm had record year-on-year cash balances of just over £3m, with directors recommending a total dividend of 21p, up 24 per

Pictured Back (L-R): Angela Robertson, Lindsay Cross, Alex Dawson, Colin Graham, Hayley Blackman, Anna Hills, Jillian McLaughlan, Scott Douglas.Front (L-R): Catriona Black, Alan Bell, Chloe Anderson and Maria Gravelle. Eleven trainee solicitors have started two-year traineeships with Thorntons.