My old friend Professor Leo Martin and his team have created a new family legal business department at the Strathclyde Law School. The idea is to teach the range of legal services and issues that affect families that run businesses. Matters of employment, property owning, retirement and succession planning and lots more are all to be subjects for educating law students (and presumably qualified solicitors too). This is an excellent development, and brings law teaching into a very important area of life and work in Scotland.

As it happens, we at Austin Lafferty Solicitors are already well-trained and qualified in all these areas. We have a substantial clientele of business people with small, medium sized and large businesses, and often there is a family structure that owns and runs the business. Our solicitors are well geared up to advise and represent such clients and their companies at all stages. It is terrific to see a university law school shaping some of its courses to focus on this crucial collection of skills, as this mirrors the way family law firms like ours operate.

Further information on this news available on the BBC News website.