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May 2021

Recovery phase?
Incoming President Ken Dalling tells of the challenges of leading the Society through the pandemic, how it has continued to operate, and its ongoing efforts to support legal aid solicitors (he is one)
Legal education: a reply
Replying to Derek Auchie’s article published in February, two law lecturers believe that his proposed transactional approach to teaching law would not in itself provide a proper grounding
COVID challenges and tomorrow's lawyers
The difficulties COVID-19 has posed for students, and how potential employers in the profession should view people who may have gained from their experience
Transforming the client experience online – then and now
Think how much communication has changed in the last 20 years – or even just the last year. Then realise how client expectations will have changed as well. Are you ready?
High tech, high powered
The Society's first virtual annual conference took full advantage of the scope offered by the format, presenting an impressive range of quality content

For ease of reading on the device of your choice, you can also access this issue of the Journal, presented in its usual page layout, in two formats:

  1. An interactive online version, hosted on the PageSuite service, which is published in HTML5 which means it works well on both iOS and Android devices; and
  2. A PDF file, which you can read online and download if you like to print pages.
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Regulars

  • People on the move: May 2021
  • Book reviews: May 2021
  • Reading for pleasure: May 2021

Perspectives

  • Editorial: May 2021
  • Opinion: Julia McPartlin
  • President's column: May 2021
  • Profile: Fiona Menzies
  • Viewpoints: May 2021

Features

  • Recovery phase?
  • Legal education: a reply
  • COVID challenges and tomorrow's lawyers
  • Take a break, make it nature
  • COVID, lost income and child maintenance

Briefings

  • Civil court: All in a month's work
  • Family: Contingent liabilities in company valuations
  • Employment: Updates from the bench
  • Human rights: When a child needs protection for life
  • Pensions: New initiatives to combat fraud
  • Data beyond Brexit
  • The Potter’s tale

In practice

  • SOLAS: update on a virtual year
  • Lawscot Foundation – five years on
  • Access issues in conveyancing
  • Pushing the tech frontier
  • The Word of Gold: What’s the core?
  • The Eternal Optimist: That "glow and tingle" feeling
  • Ask Ash: Grounded – no work travel!
  • Profile: Krista Johnston

Online exclusive

  • Foot off the pedal
  • Trans rights in the workplace: a matter of respect
  • COVID challenges and tomorrow's lawyers (full version)
  • Caravan sites: is COVID rates relief right?

In this issue

  • Transforming the client experience online – then and now
  • High tech, high powered
  • Law Society of Scotland member benefits 2021
  • BYOD and remote working: a new threat
  • New normal: how do you keep your firm's culture alive?
  • “We’re solicitors, not salespeople...”

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