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Paul Nevin Paul Nevin, senior solicitor at Moray Council, discusses his alcoholism and belated entry to the legal profession.

Brodies' Bill Drummond, managing partner for the last 20 years, retired from the firm this week.

Burness Paull head of technology Callum Sinclair has won the leadership award at the ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards 2018. The event took place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow on Thursday 26 April.

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Scotia Law Training Ltd has launched the Modern Apprenticeship in Paralegal Practice. The apprenticeship, with the training provided by Scotia, enables legal employers to train current or new employees with a comprehensive programme of paralegal skills. Participants can then be fast tracked into par

Brodies LLP is looking for secondary school students who are interested in a career in law to take part in summer work placements at its offices through the PRIME project. Students who are starting S5 and S6 during the 2018/19 academic year can apply to PRIME, an initiative set up by law firms to en

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Pictured: Emily Dunsmore (Corporate Fundraiser, SAMH) with members of Anderson Strathern's Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.

Pictured: Derek Petrie (left) and Colin Graham

Two airline pilot accused of preparing to fly a passenger jet while under the influence of alcohol have had the charges against them dropped following an appeal. Jean-Francois Perreault and Imran Syed challenged the admissibility of the evidence of the proportion of alcohol in their blood after samp

A retired GP falsely accused by a “serial fantasist” of being involved in a paedophile ring has been told he will not be reimbursed £94,000 in legal costs he paid before the case collapsed, The Times reports. Dr Stephen Glascoe, 67, from Cardiff, spent most of his savings on his defence.

Pictured (clockwise): Tom Swan, Lauren McLeod, Elaine Hunter, Stuart Greenwood and Ben Pilbrow

The Law Society of Scotland’s Council is proposing to increase the cost of solicitors’ practising certificate (PC) fee by 2.3 per cent. It is the first increase in the fee in nine years and will mean the PC costs 20 per cent less in real terms compared to 10 years ago, the Law Society said. Soli

Graham Matthews Trainee solicitors in Scotland should receive a pay increase in 2018/19, according to recommendations made by the Law Society of Scotland.

The UK Supreme Court sat in Belfast for the first time this morning to hear Siobhan McLaughlin's challenge to the rules governing the payment of a Widowed Parent's Allowance.