Author: Delia Venables
Delia Venables founded her Legal Resources website in 1995 and the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers in 1998. She edited the Newsletter jointly with Nick Holmes from 2007 to 2018. Email deliavenables@gmail.com. Twitter @deliavenables
LawyerLocator
LawyerLocator is the online version of the long established Butterworths Law Directory and Scottish Law Directory now offered by LexisNexis. The print directories are fully indexed and provide a comprehensive directory of UK solicitors, law firms and barristers in private practice, commerce, local government and public authorities. LawyerLocator was established in 2000 as an online […]
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HighStreetLawyer.com enters the market
In the last issue we covered QualitySolicitors, which is well on the way to being an established brand on the High Street. Now there is another entrant just setting up. HighStreetLawyer.com aims to be a consumer facing legal brand created by joining together a national franchised network of law firms providing branded legal services. Existing […]
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SaaS is all over the place
I have been carrying out a review of my legal software pages at www.venables.co.uk/software.htm and, at the same time, inviting suppliers to provide information on any of their products which are now also provided as “Software as a Service” (SaaS). I have been amazed by the result! From just a handful of SaaS software products […]
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DirectLaw – online document drafting
Directlaw is an online document drafting system which can be set up by firms of solicitors to sell their documents online. A bit of history Document drafting systems have been around for at least 15 years and are used by many firms internally to create documents quickly and efficiently. The process is generally under the […]
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TakeLegalAdvice
TakeLegalAdvice.com was launched in March 2007 by Mark Wyatt and Mary Heaney. Mark was former publisher of The Lawyer magazine and founder/publisher of Legal Week. Mary Heaney was founding editor of Legal Week and The Lawyer and launched ground-breaking award ceremonies, directories and large scale networking forums around the world. As well as heading up […]
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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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Resources provided by firms of solicitors
Many firms of solicitors provide useful legal information on their websites, but in most cases it is information aimed at a particular type of potential client – those with injuries who are considering a claim, individuals considering divorce, companies trying to collect debts, employers and employees with employment problems and so on. In other words, […]
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MyLawyer, Epoq and Rapidocs
MyLawyer is the name of a new service being set up by Epoq, the company behind Rapidocs. Rapidocs is a forms and document generation program which was initially developed over 10 years ago and was the basis for the revolutionary concept of “intelligent” document generation where an internet user was able to create documents relating […]
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Alternative legal services – solicitors fight back
In the last two issues, we have heard from various suppliers of legal services who are reputable, serious and successful – but are not solicitors. Generally, these suppliers have identified particular types of legal work which can be standardised in some way and they are then able to attract customers, provide their product and collect […]
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Checklist for an intranet
Implementing an intranet is hard work; it spreads its tentacles right across the firm or chambers (or should do), it takes considerable skill on behalf of the people doing it, it is a major drain on their time and there are real costs (both staff time and IT related). 1. There needs to be somebody […]
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