Year: 2009
The Google Books settlement
The Google Books settlement, if approved, will constitute a significant development in the area of copyright, particularly digital copyright, in both the US and the rest of the world. Background In 2004, Google announced that it had reached an agreement with a number of US libraries to digitise books and materials held in the collections […]
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Accessibility – less to worry about?
A few years ago the technical press was full of articles on website accessibility, but now the topic hardly rates a mention. So can we all now relax from fear of legal prosecution over technicalities that most people never understood in the first place? Let’s start with a few basic facts and a bit of […]
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Contact Law – making Tesco law work
Contact Law are big players in the solicitors referral field. The company was started in 2005 by James Vintin and Dan Watkins as they felt that there was an opening for a service to help members of the public find a suitable solicitor. They were also interested in developing services to help solicitors deal with […]
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Client satisfaction surveys – off-line v online
Although the legal profession provides a service, we are a long way from taking service measurement seriously compared to other business sectors. Given the marketing maxim “under-promise and over-deliver”, it was a brave move for the new national network Quality Solicitors to brand themselves as such. I shall be intrigued to see how they address […]
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Family Lore Focus – a site of parts
On the internet, things are not always as they seem. A typical website is not necessarily 100 per cent hosted in one place – when you go to the site, content is likely to download to your browser from a number of sources: images from one host, videos from another host, feeds from many hosts, […]
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Converting browsers to business
We all know that people who come to your website are impatient and want information straight away. If you don’t get their attention fast, or the information they want quickly, they go looking elsewhere. There are plenty of other options to be explored on the web, whatever you are looking for. But there’s more to […]
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I’ve been virtual for ages!
A response to the article on virtual firms in the last issue of the Newsletter Is it a good idea to label one’s firm as “virtual”? To be honest I try to disguise my virtualness rather than boast of it. I suspect there are a large number of other firms which are virtual, but which […]
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The new Europa site
The starting place for all information on the Institutions of Europe is the Europa site. This is a many-layered site, attempting to provide information to several types of viewer, from children, students and adult viewers with many different types of interest, through to politicians and lawyers looking for the nitty gritty stuff of the EU. […]
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Resources provided by barristers
Many chambers provide useful resources on their web sites but most are a bit “occasional” in style. However, there are a few who have committed themselves to providing fully researched and managed ongoing resources which can be seen as a major free legal resource. Garden Court Chambers have created a bank of specialist legal resources […]
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Virtual law firms – where they are now
A virtual law firm – Woolley & Co Over the last couple of years, we have covered a whole series of virtual firms in this newsletter. In some cases, the firms have sprung up as a fully-formed (but usually one-person) virtual firm; in others, the firm has gently moved from being a “normal” firm with […]
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Quality Solicitors – taking on the big boys
“I would like to make it clear” said Craig Holt, barrister, founder and CEO of Quality Solicitors “that this is not just a referral company, providing leads to solicitors. It is much more than that.” Right. So what is it then? It all started when Craig moved to Leicestershire and had difficulties in finding a […]
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JustCite ”” an umbrella index of the law
In the early 1990s Justis Publishing provided electronic access to the Law Reports, Weekly Law Reports and other series. The first to do so, it still supplies online cases and legislation on its full-text Justis legal library. But the company saw how an aspect of Justis could be expanded into a new service: one that […]
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