Law Society of Scotland

Welcome

Our mission is to continually evolve and adapt to ensure that we represent, reflect and regulate a thriving and evolving Scottish solicitor profession.

We are the professional body and regulator of Scottish solicitors, setting and enforcing standards for a profession that helps people in need and acting in the public interest. We support our hard-working and increasingly diverse membership and provide a voice that represents the legal sector and wider society when we speak on the rule of law, access to justice and human rights.

After 10 years of campaigning for change we now have new legislation which updates and modernises legal services regulation in Scotland. The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 gives us new powers to ensure that the legal profession retains its long-held reputation for excellence, while allowing us to improve and speed up our complaints processes and enhance consumer protections to ensure continued confidence in Scotland’s solicitor profession and wider legal sector.

Our Regulatory Committee and sub-committees sit at the heart of this important work. The committees bring together both solicitors and lay members from a variety of backgrounds to share their knowledge, experience and insight and provide strategic direction on our regulatory work.

The collective knowledge and experience that our committee members bring is one of the Law Society’s greatest strengths. Their contributions are key to the work we do, not solely for our membership but the many thousands of people who rely on our members to resolve their legal issues.

I do hope you consider applying to join our Regulatory Committee and be part of an exciting new chapter for the Law Society.

Ben Kemp

Chief Executive Officer

Law Society of Scotland