Day: 1 July 2007
Web 2.0 – and some of the legal issues
For the legal world attempting to come to terms with the implications of the internet, the thought that the world has already moved on may come as something of a shock; however, such is the case. Web 2.0 is upon is – even if Web 1.0 doesn’t seem to have been fully assimilated. Web 2.0 […]
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Domain names – where we are now
Originally invented in 1983, the domain name system (DNS) has come a long way in the last quarter of a century. From humble beginnings as a loosely controlled system regulated by universities and dedicated individuals who maintained simple text files of the data relating to a domain space, the DNS has developed into a massive […]
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Divorce-Online advertises on YouTube
Divorce-Online, the online divorce service, has recently expanded its marketing from a purely web based exercise into television and online video marketing. We find that the problem with pure web search advertising is that you only present yourself to people who already want the service. We decided at the end of 2006 that in order […]
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Eight years of elexica
Clients tell us they want current, relevant and commercially astute know how delivered in ways that make it easy for them to use it, whenever and however they want. Since 1999, elexica has been the means by which Simmons & Simmons markets its legal services and expertise to contacts and clients, potential recruits and the […]
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Legal outsourcing trends and possibilities
I became involved in offshoring in the mid 1990s whilst practising as a solicitor. The aim at that stage was solely to outsource client firms’ typing and transcription requirements to Indian legal secretaries with a view to achieving guaranteed turnaround targets and at the same time reducing costs. The business worked well because it delivered […]
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Podcasting the law
Podcasting is the latest buzzword sweeping through Internet Land. A podcast is a radio style audio broadcast that can be saved and listened to on any computer or MP3 player. It seems as if almost everybody is doing it; from Ricky Gervais to budding musicians. Everybody except lawyers who, thus far, have not realised the […]
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E-conveyancing update
The focus of property professionals over the last 12 months, in the residential sphere at least, has been on the fated Home Information Packs (HIPs). Trumpeted by ministers as the much needed solution to “the conveyancing problem” in terms of speed and cost, government has steadfastly ignored the views of the professionals involved who have […]
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Garden Court Chambers new online legal resource
The new Legal Resources section on our website are an attempt to really capitalise on the expertise available in a large chambers such as ours and present it in a way that directly reflects and promotes the work we do. Organised exclusively by topic, the Resource directly replicates the structure of the teams within Chambers. […]
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A virtual chambers – Clerksroom
This article describes the way that Clerksroom operates. I will be writing a second article for the next issue covering BarristerWeb and, in a third article, I will be looking at other chambers who are incorporating some “virtual chambers” ideas into their more conventional operation – a sort of virtual chambers by stealth. Clerksroom do […]
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