| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.07.2025 | Scottish Cyber Centre Forms Rapid Response Cadre | Scottish SMEs are set to benefit from a cyber incident response cadre that aims to help them tackle the growing scourge of cyber-attacks.
With figures showing that Scots firms lost more than £386 million to hackers in the last year alone, t... |
| 25.06.2025 | Navigating Change: The Future of Scotland's Legal Landscape | Scotland's legal sector stands at a crossroads. Recent developments signal a shift, a wave of change that could reshape how legal services are delivered. The appointment of Noel Jordan as the first Chief Operating Officer at Burness Paull i... |
| 24.06.2025 | What Could Digital Reforms Mean for Scotland’s Legal Sector? | The Law Commission of England and Wales recently published final recommendations to modernise the Wills Act, including proposals to allow for the digital signing and witnessing of wills. While these changes do not apply in Scotland, they ra... |
| 23.06.2025 | Scots Law Firm Burness Paull Appoints First COO | Burness Paull has appointed Noel Jordan as its first chief operating officer, with the law firm claiming that the newly created role will prime the business for its next phase of growth.
As COO, Jordan will have overall responsibility for t... |
| 02.05.2025 | Scotland's Tech Surge: A Landscape of Innovation and Opportunity | Scotland is buzzing. The tech ecosystem is alive with energy, innovation, and ambition. From the bustling streets of Edinburgh to the vibrant communities of Glasgow, the Scottish tech scene is transforming. This month, we delve into the mov... |
| 01.05.2025 | Movers and Shakers | April 2025 | Welcome to the April 2025 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
Esteemed appointments, major partnerships, and important award... |
| 01.04.2025 | Burness Paull Expands Leadership with Five New Partners | Burness Paull has promoted five of its lawyers to partner as the firm prepares for further growth in key areas and continues to invest in developing homegrown talent.
The newly appointed partners are Rachel MacArthur, Daniela Pallucci, Coli... |
| 13.11.2024 | New Scottish Scheme to Attract More Women to Angel Investing | Scotland’s first all-female business angel syndicate, Investing Women Angels (IWA), and its sister organisation AccelerateHER have launched a new scheme designed to attract more businesswomen into angel investing.
The W2W initiative is set ... |
| 05.11.2024 | Movers & Shakers | October 2024 | Welcome to the October 2024 edition of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers!
Each month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem.
October has been another bumper month, with many innovative ... |
| 03.10.2024 | Navigating Change: Leadership Shifts and Financial Moves in the Legal and Commodities Sectors | In the ever-evolving landscape of business, leadership changes and financial maneuvers can signal new directions. Recently, two significant developments emerged from Scotland and the United States, showcasing how firms adapt to challenges a... |
| 01.10.2024 | Scots Law Firm Burness Paull Appoints New Managing Partner | Burness Paull, the Scotland-based independent law firm, has appointed Mark Ellis as its new managing partner, working alongside Peter Lawson who will continue as chair.
Ellis brings considerable management experience to the role, having led... |
| 06.06.2024 | ESG Innovation Summit | Just Two Weeks To Go! | Taking place on Thursday June 20th at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, the inaugural ESG Innovation Summit will consider the role of digital technology in driving tangible ESG impact; exploring how innovation in IoT, analytics, AI and cloud are ... |
| 13.05.2024 | Burness Paull Recruits Additional Planning Partner | Burness Paull has strengthened its planning and environment team with the appointment of a new partner as the firm experiences growing demand for specialist planning advice, particularly from the renewable energy and real estate sectors.
Em... |
| 02.05.2024 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | April 2024 | Welcome to the April edition of DIGIT Movers and Shakers, 2024!
Every month, our Movers and Shakers feature gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment and partnerships to expansions and awards.
Th... |
| 29.01.2024 | Comment | Data Trends 2024: New Year, New Regulations | As 2024 gets into full swing, David Goobrand, head of data privacy, and Andrew Macqueen, a trainee soliceter, of Technology and Commercial at Burness Paul have revealed some top data trends for the new year as regulation continues to change... |
| 10.10.2023 | What Does the AI “Arms Race” Mean for Scottish Fintech and the Trust Economy? | The trust economy is a dynamic entity, constantly reshaped by disruptors that alter the way we trust and interact with various facets of our lives.
Whether it’s steam trains revolutionizing transportation, Amazon transforming commerce, Goog... |
| 01.08.2023 | Burness Paull Announces Promotion of Four New Partners | The newly appointed partners are Louise Chambers (real estate), Stephen Farrell (dispute resolution), Karen Manning (construction and projects) and Liam Young (pensions).
Chambers, who trained with Burness Paull, advises a broad range of cl... |
| 26.04.2023 | Comment | AI and Chatbots: Key Issues and Risks for Employers | The field of AI is ever evolving, with regulation and practice often struggling to keep up.
Back in 2022, we wrote a blog about using artificial intelligence in a recruitment context and highlighted some of the associated risks. We have als... |
| 21.03.2023 | Burness Paull Bolsters Partner Ranks With New Appointment | Having worked at Burness Paull earlier in his career, MacKinven re-joins the firm after a tenure of just under four years at Abu Dhabi-based Flash Entertainment, where he served as general counsel and company secretary. Before this, he spen... |
| 06.07.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | June 2022 | Recruitment Brillband
Scottish broadband firm Brillband has made two key appointments as it prepares to launch a trial of its app technology in Scotland.
Entrepreneur and fundraising specialist behind investing company Raising Partners, Hel... |
| 01.07.2022 | Leader Insights | How Can Scottish SMEs Scale? | Despite the challenging business environment of the last couple of years, Scottish tech businesses continue to thrive, with many turning their eye to the next logical step in their development: scaling up.
Unfortunately, there’s no shortage... |
| 01.03.2022 | Filament STAC Adds to Company Cohort at Scottish IoT Accelerator | Filament STAC – the Scottish IoT accelerator aiming to produce scalable companies – has added to its cohort, bringing the total to 14.
Vanora Robots and Aquaponics Garden are the latest additions, with the former designing and manufacturing... |
| 11.11.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | October 2021 | Funding and investment Gigged.AI and Techstart Ventures
Technology startup Gigged.AI has doubled its headcount from seven to 14 and expanded its presence after closing an over-subscribed £600,000 investment round.
Funding came from early-st... |
| 09.08.2021 | 10 Things to be Aware of When Using AI in Recruitment | Increasingly, employers are using or exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment or an employment context.
AI can help make recruitment processes more efficient, better identify the best talent applying for positions an... |
| 08.01.2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | December 2020 | Recruitment Cloud Cover IT
Glasgow-based digital transformation firm Cloud Cover IT has strengthened its developer, commercial and senior leadership teams with the appointment of eight new employees, despite the challenging business environ... |
| 26.10.2020 | Avoiding a Claims Tsunami | Debunking Commercial Contract Myths | Choppy Waters
I was connected recently to the brilliant FOCI project, whose mission is to repatriate the Falls of Clyde, the world’s only remaining sail-driven oil tanker. She is the only survivor of her sister ships built at Port Glasgow i... |
| 19.12.2019 | How to Protect Your Business from Phishing and Whaling Scams | Do you know what email phishing is? How about whaling? Or domain spoofing?
Even if you can’t be precise, you probably have an inkling of what they are – catchy but rather confusing terms to describe types of online fraud.
At their heart, th... |
| 22.07.2019 | What Are Crypto Assets and How Do You Manage Them? | Crypto assets meaning
The advent of distributed ledger technology (more often referred to as “blockchain”), has given rise to a new class of assets – cryptographically secured representations of value or contractual rights, or, in layman’s ... |
| 23.08.2018 | Pirate IPTV Seller on Facebook Ordered to Pay £50,000 | Online piracy is taking place in all corners of the Internet, Facebook included.
This issue is not limited to users who upload or stream infringing content. It also extends to Facebook’s marketplace, where vendors sell pirate streaming boxe... |
| 11.07.2018 | The Secret To Success: Protecting Your Trade Secrets | In 2016 the EU adopted the Trade Secrets Directive, which has now been implemented into UK law by the Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018. The Directive aims to harmonise the law in this area to ensure that a minimum standard... |
| 05.06.2018 | TEDxGlasgow 2018: RETHINKING Tech for Good | With 20 inspirational speakers, three demonstration halls and three break panels it was a busy day full of talks on a diverse range of subjects. To date, this has been the largest TEDxGlasgow event and was the first time it was streamed liv... |
| 25.05.2018 | New Board Members for ScotlandIS | ScotlandIS, the industry organisation which represents and supports businesses and organisations creating & delivering digital products and services, has announced three new board members will be joining the organisation.
After a call f... |
| 05.04.2018 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: March 2018 | Appointments Interface
Professor Andrea Nolan has been appointed Chair of Interface Strategic Board, taking over from Professor Sir Pete Downes. University Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University and Convener of Univers... |
| 19.03.2018 | DataFest18 Gets Underway | DataFest18 will showcase Scotland’s world-class data science capabilities with experts from around the globe descending on Edinburgh for the international conference at the heart of the festival, Data Summit.
The festival has been organised... |
| 12.03.2018 | Digital Tech Awards Finalists Announced | The finalists for the 2018 Digital Technology Awards have been announced.
The awards celebrate talent, innovation and success in Scotland’s world-class digital technology industries. These industries contribute £6 billion in GVA to the econ... |
| 01.02.2018 | Movers and Shakers: January 2018 | Appointments Susan Russell Joins Criton Apps as Head of Marketing
Criton Apps has appointed Susan Russell, the former Marketing Manager of Festivals Edinburgh to spearhead its international sales drive. Susan, who has been integral to the a... |
| 09.01.2018 | PlayerData Completes First Funding Round | PlayerData, the sports wearables firm, has completed its first round of funding, with help from law firm Burness Paull.
The investment came from a number of high-profile individuals, including former Tesco CEO, Sir Terry Leahy and Blackcirc... |
