Scott + Co

Scott + Co have a particularly dominant position in the enforcement, recovery and investigations marketplace in Scotland. It is a professional partnership with a strong reputation for service delivery and excellent performance. This reputation has been built on the back of an unrivalled blend of centralised and decentralised services and a total commitment to quality management. The business continues to expand through service excellence, reputation management and key acquisitions.

www.scottandco.uk.com

The Scotsman

The Scotsman remains dedicated to offering the best news coverage and analysis of the legal profession in Scotland. With a proud history of covering Scottish legal stories, it remains the country's leading newspaper for law and legal affairs.

As well as news from all sectors of Scottish law, the dedicated law and legal affairs section, published each Monday, hosts comment and opinion from some of Scottish law's leading lights discussing the important issues of the day. Whether it is the latest developments in family law, or the future of advocacy, our section provides a forum for debate among the profession.

News from the courts is provided by vastly experienced law correspondent John Robertson who also gathers the gossip for our regular Court Shorts column. Other regulars include a rundown of intellectual property law from Marks & Clerk, the view of younger lawyers articulated by Collette Paterson and a monthly look at commercial law from CCW Business Lawyers. Meanwhile, Legal Update provides a weekly round-up of news for the profession.

The Scotsman’s Law Alert is a free e-mail service allowing legal professionals to find out about the main issues appearing on the law pages in advance. To join the distribution list, or just to get in touch, e-mail law@scotsman.com.

As a partner of the 2010 Legal Awards, The Scotsman wishes all contestants the best of luck.

www.scotsman.com

DX

DX is the largest competitor to Royal Mail, offering a range of reliable and cost-effective next day mail services. For over 30 years, the UK’s legal community has trusted the Document Exchange to deliver its business critical mail, providing the unique benefits of pre-9 am nationwide delivery combined with significant cost-savings.

In Spring 2007, DX launched SecureDX, giving Members a reliable and cost-effective alternative for their special deliveries. With SecureDX, Members can send important mail to both business and residential addresses, guaranteeing next working day delivery with signature.

DX is delighted to be showing our support for the Scottish legal community by sponsoring this award, and wish all nominees the best of luck.

www.thedx.co.uk

Ros.gov.uk

Ros.gov.uk is responsible for compiling and maintaining public registers of land and property transactions, and other legal records. Our work is dominated by the two main registers recording ownership of and rights over, land and property - the General Register of Sasines and the Land Register of Scotland. The Land Register is a state guaranteed; plans-based register established by the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 Act to eventually replace the Sasine register.

Apart from the two main land registers we also hold 14 registers grouped under the collective name of the Chancery and Judicial Registers. We currently employ over 1,400 people, in offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

We have always been self-financing, being funded by the fees charged for registration and for providing information from the registers. In 1996 we were awarded Trading Fund status.

We have a clear goal to further reduce reliance on paper-based systems, drive down fees and provide a first class service to the people of Scotland. Our work protects peoples’ legal rights and we play a vital role in maintaining economic confidence by guaranteeing land and property ownership. For more information on our services and to use our free property price search go to:

www.ros.gov.uk

Hotel du Vin & Bistro Edinburgh

Hotel du Vin & Bistro Edinburgh is nestled deep in Edinburgh’s Old Town, only a short walk from the Royal Mile.

Neighboring the famous Bedlam theatre, the Hotel occupies the site of a former asylum! Its 47 timelessly furnished rooms and stunning suites feature monsoon showers, luxurious Egyptian cotton sheets, plasma TV’s, DVD’s and air conditioning.

The hotel offers the trademark Hotel du Vin Bistro with mezzanine bar serving the finest classic European cuisine from the kitchen, alfresco and private dining, cigar shack, whisky snug and intriguing La Roche tasting room where you can be taken on a pilgrimage around the world’s finest vineyards by our Head Sommelier without having to leave the room.

The hotel also offers a number of function, events and meeting rooms with that will inspire, sublime spaces equipped with the latest technology to help you get the most out of your time with us.

www.hotelduvin.com/edinburgh

GP Wolffe
brand communication design

GP Wolffe is a brand and communication consultancy. We offer creativity, client service and results in equal measure. From our offices in Edinburgh and Boston USA, we deliver inspired work across client sectors and around the world. Our expertise includes brand creation and application, web-based and direct marketing, corporate literature, packaging and advertising.

www.gpwolffe.com

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Grant Thornton UK LLP is a leading financial and business adviser with offices in 29 locations in the UK. Led by over 270 partners and employing over 4,100 of the profession's brightest minds, we provide personalised assurance, tax and specialist advisory services to over 40,000 individuals, privately-held businesses and public interest entities.

In our professional practices group, we specialise in people-based businesses. We provide practical solutions to help our clients manage change successfully. We’ve built long standing relationships with many professional firms utilising an integrated approach to provide an efficient and fully integrated audit and taxation service to the legal profession.

We offer solutions and advice in the following service areas: financial statements and audit, tax planning and compliance, international tax and VAT, regulatory returns, risk assessment, governance and communication, structures and strategy, growth and development planning, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets/external investment, rewarding and retaining staff, personal tax advice, financial planning for individuals.

www.grant-thornton.co.uk

The Law Society of Scotland

The Law Society of Scotland is the membership body for Scottish solicitors and is committed to protecting the public interest while leading a successful and respected solicitors profession.

The Society wants to support and celebrate solicitors' contribution to their communities, particularly in the current economic environment. The pace of legislative change, potential introduction of alternative business structures, and regulatory developments will present both major opportunities and challenges for the legal profession and firms in their provision of legal services, not only in Scotland, but across the UK and internationally.

www.lawscot.org.uk

The Scottish Paralegal Association is the only independent professional association representing the interests and promoting the development of paralegals in Scotland. The Association holds among its membership, paralegals who operate in a variety of roles both in private practice and in-house. The Association acts in the best interests of its members in representing their collective opinions and views. The Association is managed on a voluntary basis by committee members who are paralegals themselves.

The Scottish Paralegal Association is currently working in partnership with the Law Society of Scotland on the introduction of the Law Society of Scotland Registered Paralegal Scheme which has just entered a final consultation phase. It is anticipated this scheme will be introduced in Spring/Summer 2010 (further details from http://www.lawscot.org.uk/paralegals/).

Launched in 2002 in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and established in Belfast in 2004, PRG provides a level of expertise and service which has quickly established the group as the leading specialist recruiter.

PRG is a recruitment company with a difference - it focuses entirely on recruiting professionals into law, accountancy, finance, and senior management for its clients within the professions, commerce and industry, and financial services.

Serving the legal community via PRG Executive Search, its unique ‘headhunting’ service, and PRG Lawsearch, its contingent recruitment business, PRG works closely with both clients and candidates to devise innovative business and career solutions.

PRG has achieved its track record by focusing on quality, commerciality, ethics and professionalism in order to deliver market leading results.

www.prgrecruitment.com

Generally regarded as the most powerful and innovative UK legal PMS software, LawSoft from Pilgrim Systems delivers measurable business benefits and a real return on investment.

Operating in an intuitive fee earner web interface, LawSoft is simple to use yet massively powerful. With an inbuilt workflow engine, LawSoft can automate administrative tasks, and be used to automate both linear and non-linear work processes, delivering significant efficiency gains. LawSoft’s Document Management module is feature rich and alongside the CRM module, provides a true 360° view of contact, client and matter information.

Just having the most powerful software isn’t always enough – it has to be implemented in a way that makes sure it delivers. This is a real Pilgrim difference. Install LawSoft and realise business benefits. It’s that simple.

www.pilgrimsystems.com

Woods of Perth

Woods has developed into a very comprehensive print and communications company and is now able to offer an unrivalled combination of quality litho and digital printing, finishing, direct mail and excellence in customer service. Woods is investing in its people with the aim of exceeding industry standards in all areas of our business. We are proud to have achieved Investors in People, IS0 14001, FSC and PEFC accreditations.

www.woodsprint.co.uk

Scottish Legal News

Scottish Legal News is Scotland’s only daily digest of legal news serving the entire Scottish legal community and enjoys a massive following among Scottish lawyers. The free daily email newsletter is sent directly to the inboxes of over 4,000 Scottish lawyers working in all sectors of the legal profession – Civil, Criminal, Commercial, Conveyancing and Crown.

Since its launch in June 2008, Scottish Legal News has grown to become the industry’s leading source for news, events, jobs and tenders. It is a fast, free and focused service – keeping thousands of lawyers up to date with legal matters.

Subscribers include senior solicitors in public, private and corporate practice, judges, advocates, sheriffs, fiscals, lecturers and civil servants in a remarkable number of quangos and public bodies. The number of unique visitors to our website and the widespread forwarding of our newsletter means we are already reaching the majority of Scotland’s lawyers on a daily basis – and our readership continues to grow. As such, Scottish Legal News offers real value to advertisers – reflected in our large number of repeat advertisers – who realise the benefits of featuring on our daily, focussed news service. Display advertisers appreciate the flexibility we offer, with boxes and banners carrying flashing messages capable of linking adverts to their websites, email addresses or downloadable pdf documents.

ScottishLegal.com is Scotland’s leading portal, keeping readers posted on the latest news, events, jobs and tenders. The website also features sections on CPD, IT and the Universities, as well as a bookshop service by Avizandum.

www.scottishlegalnews.com

MCL Edinburgh – An Avesco Group plc company

MCL Edinburgh - Media Control (Europe) Ltd – has been delivering creative technical solutions for all live event applications since we started our business in August 2001.

MCL are one of the largest audio visual and event staging companies in the UK. We are part of the Avesco Group plc, a leading supplier of equipment and presentation services to the international events market.

MCL currently has six offices in the UK covering London, Birmingham, Birmingham NEC, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow along with 125 full time staff. In addition Avesco Group plc also has businesses in France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Dubai, China, and the USA all of which interact closely, providing customers with an integrated national or international service as required.

Year on year MCL Edinburgh have developed the creative platform for audio visual services within the Scottish AV rental sector. The development of our LED creative solutions inventory within MCL gives our clients access to products such as Element Labs VersaTile, VesraTube and Stealth along with Barco MiTRIX, which means that we are the only AV services business in the UK that has multiple options available in-house.

For more information please go to our respective websites at: www.mcl-av.com and www.avesco.com

The Scottish Law Directory: The White Book

The Scottish Law Directory: the White Book includes the latest list of certificated solicitors, published with the authority of the Law Society of Scotland. It is the most widely used source for anyone seeking information about legal services in Scotland.

The Scottish Law Directory: The White Book: Fees Supplement

The Scottish Law Directory Fees Supplement consolidates all the revisions to fee rates and includes solicitors' fees; solicitors' outlays; expenses of party litigants, stamp duties and tax rates.

Scottish Law Diaries

The first-ever Butterworths Scottish Law Diary, available in two versions (page a day and week to view), allows you to plan your professional life efficiently and provides you with over 100 pages of useful practice information and essential legal and governmental contacts in Scotland.

LexisNexis

LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with more than 18,000 employees worldwide.

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Children 1st

CHILDREN 1ST's vision is for a happy, healthy, safe and secure childhood for every child and young person in Scotland.

They have 125 years experience of working with children and families, previously as the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Today, they support families under stress, protect children from harm and neglect, help them to recover from abuse and promote children's rights and interests.

A key part of their work in helping children is by supporting parents.

Their free helpline ParentLine Scotland (0808 800 2222) offers information, advice or just a friendly listening ear to anyone caring for or concerned about a child in Scotland. CHILDREN 1ST is the working name of the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children Registered Scottish Charity Number SC016092

www.children1st.org.uk