IT HAS taken a long time, but a free legal advice service is coming to Scotland at last. Early in 2011, LawWorks Scotland will be up and running, giving lawyers a formal oppor

A PROPOSED overhaul of the legal profession in Scotland dubbed "Tesco Law" is a "necessary change", community safety minister Fergus Ewing has told MSPs.

MSPs have passed a controversial law that will reform the legal profession by enabling supermarkets, estate agents and other businesses to form partnerships with law firms.

THE legal sector has shown great resilience in tough times - and Scotland is increasingly becoming a nation of specialist lawyers.

Reforms introduced by the Legal Services Act will turn the UK into the most deregulated legal services markets in the world

A POTENTIALLY damaging referendum has been won narrowly by the Law Society of Scotland, heading off the first of three challenges that could alter the landscape of the Scotti

It's not just older lawyers who are suffering during the recession:DOZENS of young lawyers are being cast adrift at the end of their training contracts, The Scotsman can reveal.As the recession bites into some of Scotland's biggest law firms, one legal recruitment agency has reported a threefold rise in the number of newly qualified solicitors on its books.The truth is that these youngsters are

THERE is little evidence that turning legal services over to banks or supermarkets will improve access to justice in Scotland, a senior legal academic has warned.

International lawyers have complained to Brussels about alleged restrictions on them doing business in Bulgaria, the latest in a series of disputes about European Union member state restraints on the legal industry

CRIMINAL defence lawyers have for months been warning of the dire consequences to their firms – and the wider legal profession – of controversial changes to legal aid.