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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.

A fascinating murder mystery will be the subject of an evening of discussion with an American lawyer in Glasgow later this year. David Rudolf, the defence attorney for Michael Peterson, whose case is depicted in the hit Netflix documentary series The Staircase, will be hosting a show exclu

MacRoberts is a key sponsor of the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) in Edinburgh this week. Ten years since the first ever SEWF event took place in Scotland, CEIS – the founders of SEWF and organisers of the 2018 events – is set to welcome over 1,000 social enterprise delegates from

A woman has been found guilty of fraud by false representation after pretending to be a lawyer. Harvinder Kaur Thethi, 46, from, Solihull, West Midlands, was found guilty of six counts of fraud by false representation at Southwark Crown Court. Ms Thethi was remanded in custody pending a sentenc

Ireland's advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint against a nightclub that lied about fake snow, free Christmas crackers, cheap drinks and an appearance from Santa. The "Snow Rave" at the Pulse Venue in Letterkenny last December was meant to have drinks for 99 cents all night according to a Face

A policy of forcing public bodies to reduce inequality has had little effect, an investigation has found. The Equalities Commission said that attempts by the Scottish government to create new duties promoting social and economic equality in legislation had had little measurable impact, The Time

Registers of Scotland (RoS) has now registered 65 per cent of land and property titles (around 1.8 million), amounting to 31.7 per cent land mass coverage, according to its annual report. Just under 70,000 addresses have been registered under Keeper Induced Registration (KIR) and, RoS said, "having

Pictured (L-R): Rachel Salmond, Rebecca Leslie, Kirsty Martin, Kendall Allan, Samantha Miller, Caitlin Connolly, Philippa Abernethy Lindsays welcomed seven new trainees this week. Based in the firm’s city-centre offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee they are taking up positions across

Car maker Volkswagen has gone on trial in Germany in the first court case against the firm over the emissions scandal, the BBC reports. Investors seek €9.2 billion in damages, claiming the company should have revealed it was falsifying data sooner.

The UK Supreme Court is offering 12 free slots for graduate law schools and university law societies to hold the final round of their mooting competition before one of the court's justices. The moot finals will take place between February and May 2019 and priority will be given to graduate law

The Scotsman has published a full obituary of sports lawyer Alan Grosset. "[He]... was a highly regarded and successful ­Edinburgh solicitor who ­combined a lifelong love of sport with the application of his professional acumen to become an acknowledged leader in the field of sports law.