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Make sure your online profile is working for you

28th September 2023 | Professional support , Business support
We are keen to ensure that our members benefit from a powerful marketing tool and receive value adding content and practice updates.

New AML Guidance: Where to start

10th February 2021 | Regulation , Business support
In the first of a series of blogs, Graham MacKenzie, Head of Anti-Money Laundering at the Society, helps to break down the recently released and extensively revised AML Guidance for the UK legal sector, highlighting key changes and what solicitors need to look out for.

Maintaining compliance through unusual times

16th October 2020 | Business support
Recent announcements from the UK and Scottish Governments mean a return to traditional office work is still on hold for most of us. This article, which is the first in a series of collaborative content from ScotlandIS Cyber and Data Clusters, FinTech Scotland and LawscotTech, considers how working from home can impact on employees’ attitudes towards diligence and how companies can encourage a compliance-driven culture in a remote setting.

Our flexible working future

21st September 2020 | By: Elaine MacGlone | Equality and diversity , Professional support , Research and policy , Business support
Flexible working has gone from a trendy buzzword to the new normal during lockdown. As we publish our flexible working guidance, Elaine MacGlone, Equality & Diversity Manager at the Law Society of Scotland, reflects on her personal experience of flexible working, how things have changed and what the future might hold.

Can technology simplify compliance processes?

18th November 2019 | Business support
Recognising that collecting data to complete the AML certificate can be time consuming for members, we have been working with a number of case management providers to see if there is a technical solution that will ease that process.

5 questions to explain contextualised recruitment and our pilot scheme with Rare

14th November 2019 | By: Olivia Moore | Business support
You may have heard recently of 'contextualised recruitment' that firms like Pinsent Masons, Dickson Minto and Morton Fraser are implementing via a company called Rare. It's designed to improve social mobility, but what does it all mean?

Platinum blog series

8th October 2019 | Law Society news , Business support
As part of our platinum anniversary blog series, Adèle Nicol, Partner, Anderson Strathern and member of our Rural Affairs Sub-committee looks at how legislation introducing the right to roam and the right to buy brought about significant change.

Platinum blog series

26th July 2019 | Law Society news , Business support
As part of our platinum anniversary blog series, Adèle Nicol, Partner, Anderson Strathern and member of our Rural Affairs Sub-committee looks at the rights of agricultural tenants over the past 70 years.

Platinum blog series

16th July 2019 | Law Society news , Business support
In the next in our series of Platinum blogs, Alyson Shaw, trainee solicitor at Shepherd and Wedderburn reflects on the impact of technology on the legal profession.

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