The Society’s legal education programme begins on 14 March 2024 with the popular Charities Conference.

Join us to celebrate Christmas at the Signet Library with the Choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral.

The inaugural dinner for Lady Elish Angiolini LT will take place on 10 November 2023.

With our partners at Lombardi Associates, we are delighted to bring exceptional speakers to this year`s Sports Law Conference on 13 October.

Join us on 5 October for the WS annual joint conference for private client lawyers which will focus on trust law reform as the Trust and Succession (Scotland) Bill moves through Parliamentary process.

The popular WS Employment Law returns on 28 September with a comprehensive update on both established and emerging issues in employment law for practitioners at every stage of the career path.

New for 2023, the PNLA and WS Society have partnered to produce a joint conference on Professional Negligence Law, designed to address the latest issues for professional negligence litigators in Scotland.

Join us on 12 September 2023 for the part of the WS Society’s programme of events centred on fundamental human rights and the law, we are proud to launch the inaugural Abuse Law Symposium.

Join us on 7 September for the WS CDR conference which is the leading update for solicitors involved in commercial litigation in Scotland, and a flagship event in the WS Society’s education programme.

The US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate will address an audience at the Signet Library, and a worldwide audience online, on the climate crisis.

For the first time in Scotland, David Eustace will exhibit his sculpture work, including works in acrylic, steel and granite, as well as a print portfolio featuring David’s images of the statues of Père Lachaise cemetery, unseen to date, as a collective body of work entitled ‘THEREAFTER’.

The ALA and the WS Society present their 26th Joint Annual Conference on Agriculture, which will be held at the Signet Library on Friday 2 June 2023.

Join us for a special screening of the award-winning documentary Through Our Eyes, at the Signet Library on 18 May 2023, followed by a conversation with the film’s BAFTA and IDFA winning director Samir Mehanović.

As the global migration crisis intensifies, and the spotlight is honed again on the UK with the introduction of the Illegal Migration Bill, we will be bringing an expert panel of professional to the Immigration and Asylum Symposium on 18 May 2023 to discuss the latest legal developments on immigration.

The annual WS Personal Injury Law Conference is a dedicated legal and technical update for Scottish PI practitioners. We are delighted to be joined by a great panel of speakers, including Sheriff Robert Fife, Dr Caroline Whymark, and Robert Milligan KC.

Join us on 27 April for the annual WS IP Conference, which offers a varied and lively technical update in IP law, policy and regulation.

Join us and award winning wildlife photographer and author, Nicholas Dyer, for a special evening to learn more about these wonderful animals.

We are pleased to open our CPD year again this year with the popular Charities Conference. We are delighted to have the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, Shona Robison MSP, to give the keynote speech.

Not to be missed, this unique event brings together two of Scotland’s oldest charitable institutions in a wonderful chemistry of music, architecture and Christmas tradition.

The WS Society and STEP Scotland’s annual joint conference for private client lawyers and advisers returns to the Signet Library after two years online. This year’s programme covers a comprehensive range of legal, tax and asset protection issues for the modern private client practitioner.