Month: September 2009
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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Electronic evidence: disclosure and admissibility
Digital devices (and thus digital evidence) are ubiquitous, and any lawyer that fails to ask their client for evidence from their laptop, Blackberry, mobile telephone, memory sticks or iPod is risking an action in negligence if such evidence could have been made available and would have been relevant in any legal proceedings but was not […]
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Outsourcing ”” a competitive tool
It would be an understatement to say we live in challenging times and no doubt the next 18 months will continue to be difficult. It is at such times that innovation thrives, whether this is through new products and services or new business models or tweaks to old models. It is likely that outsourcing and […]
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Search engine optimisation – a holistic approach
Most users don’t look past the first two or three pages of results returned by a search engine, so understanding and implementing search engine optimisation (SEO) is critical. SEO is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a website from search engines via natural (or “organic”) – as opposed to paid […]
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Using Web 2.0 within the organisation
Expensive centralised, standalone systems and complex processes of communicating and storing information are amongst some of the main contributors to wasteful and inefficient processes. People need to work on a platform that gets them out of their in-boxes and word documents. New tools like wikis, blogs, RSS and personal dashboards are combined in this platform […]
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