Austin Lafferty is a solicitor, broadcaster, journalist and artist, who has worked in general practice since 1981. As well as running his own multi-branch firm in and around Glasgow, Austin has been on the Council of the Law Society of Scotland since 2006 and has sat on various committees, convening the Nominations Committee and the Strategy Group, and been involved in lectures, seminars and other events for the profession. He was elected Vice-President of the Law Society in May 2011 and took over the presidency in May 2012, and is thus now a Past President of the Society. He remains on Council having been elected in 2013 for another 3-year term. Austin has also worked in a variety of media roles, having been a radio and television presenter on numerous programmes. At the BBC there is a saying “Austin Lafferty could talk under wet cement” - he’s not sure what this means, but chooses to take it as a compliment. Austin is a newspaper columnist on legal matters who has worked on the Herald, the Sun, the Sunday Post and the Times (both Glasgow Evening Times and the London Times). He works occasionally as a professional portrait artist in Glasgow. He has also written It's The Law! which is a handbook on Scots Law for citizens, published in 2004.