Day: 5 January 2009
Law publishing at the crossroads
You? In the current climate of rapid technological change, upheavals in the legal profession and global recession, what does the future hold for law publishing? The publishing revolution I have been fortunate to have been involved at first hand in the entire modern publishing revolution. When I first started out in law publishing, authors […]
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E-marketing for barristers – Part 1
Online news and e-marketing are generally neglected by the Bar. Most Bar websites are static brochures, and emails about seminars mark the limit of other e-marketing. For chambers with the motivation, there is therefore plenty of opportunity to stand out. To make any progress, you will need an e-marketing plan. This should complement your existing […]
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Open access Scottish law reports
Session Cases, published by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting, are the nearest thing Scotland has to an “official” law reports series. Uniquely in Scotland they are prepared by practising advocates (barristers) whilst the judges have the opportunity to revise the reports of their cases before they are published. The Practice Notes (Practice Directions) of […]
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New HIP Regulations – where we are now
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has recently made and laid in Parliament a set of Home Information Pack (HIP) Regulations regarding the ending of the transitional arrangements. The main provisions are: The Local and Water and Drainage Searches will, despite a certain amount of negativity, remain a compulsory component of the HIP. […]
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Introducing an intranet
Leigh Day & Co is a 19-partner firm in London that specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury and human rights law. The firm had previously used a simple intranet that ran on Microsoft FrontPage, maintained by the librarian and IT manager. This had a few pages relating to library services and a gallery of photos […]
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New online ventures for OUP
Oxford University Press has made its first foray into online information for lawyers and legal researchers. The launch of three new services marks a significant phase in Oxford’s shift from a traditional academic print publisher, to one which now offers a broad range of services in book, journal, looseleaf and online form, and which is […]
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Enhancing profile with a free information service
Solnick LLP, based in Chiswick, West London was founded in 1984 and has seven fee earners. We have established ourselves as a large law firm in a miniature package, often punching above our weight. In the late 1990s we developed a speciality in employment law and now have a team of three dedicated employment lawyers, […]
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Fax to email for lawyers
When I left the CPS in 1996 and set up as an independent barrister it was essential to get a fax machine which dutifully sat in my home office waiting for faxes from Chambers. Since it shared the same line with my home phone it became something of a curse; if the phone rang during […]
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The future of lawyers
In his new book The End of Lawyers? (Oxford University Press) Richard Susskind challenges the legal profession to ask what elements of their current work could be undertaken more quickly, more cheaply, more efficiently or to a higher quality using new methods. He makes his case firstly by mapping the path that almost all legal […]
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