Staying up-to-date with the latest legal developments has never been easier for practitioners as an increasing number of online resources are providing legal knowledge content for free. Jordans’ free online content At Jordan Publishing, following the success of our Family Law website, we have recently launched a number of other free legal knowledge websites. These […]
Read More
Before asking a professional for advice, these days most people consult the internet. Whether it’s a question about how to fill in a tax return or a query on a medical ailment, they Google their issue first to find out if they can solve it themselves. DIY is no longer the domain of household improvements […]
Read More
Introduction from Delia Venables: The Co-operative Legal Services is already a major player in the legal services market, operating out of Bristol and employing around 450 staff. In March 2012 it was the first major consumer brand to be granted ABS status under the new Legal Services Act, allowing it to offer a range of […]
Read More
Online services It’s now seven years since we launched our first online services in law and we provide resources for three main markets: scholars, practitioners, and police and law enforcement agencies. At the moment we are in the development phase for the third generation of our research environment which we’ll roll out this year. Our […]
Read More
In the last issue, we provided contributions from DPS, Eclipse, Iris, LawCloud and LexisNexis. Here we continue with four more key suppliers. Linetime are a leading supplier of practice, case and matter management systems with 30 years experience of the legal sector. Clients range from mid tier firms through to top 50 practices. Years of […]
Read More
The Justice site was launched in April 2011 as the government’s attempt to bring together all websites related to the UK justice system for the professional user. Initially it was a rather desperate attempt to patch together lots of different sites, all with different underlying architectures and different views of what they were trying to […]
Read More
Catherine Bailey represents Bar Marketing Marketing is becoming ever more vital in the race to win new clients and retain existing ones. Whether you are a law firm or chambers you are seeing your marketplace evolve at an unprecedented rate. New entrants are streaming in and new ways of working are becoming standard practice. You […]
Read More
The principle of open justice has been robustly developed in English law since the mid-17th century, but the courts service in England and Wales has yet to fully utilise online technology for the dissemination of courts information and legal knowledge. The UK Supreme Court, which opened its doors to the public in 2009, leads the […]
Read More
The phrase “in the cloud” has only been in common use for two or three years. Previously, phrases like “hosted systems”, “outsourced systems” and “software as a service” (SaaS) were used instead, and meant much the same thing, but the take-up of such systems was rather slow. Now, nearly all the major suppliers of legal […]
Read More
Information overload, especially in the form of too many emails, is a common issue for lawyers and those who support them. However, clients expect their adviser to know what issues are facing them and what is going on in their industry. And as to winning new clients, the inventive fee earner is on the lookout […]
Read More
Should you recruit your own marketing person or use an agency? It’s hard enough being a modern lawyer without having to qualify in marketing and get to grips with the latest selling fad. Your marketing efforts will benefit from some professional input to speed things along avoiding the pain and expense (and embarrassment) of a […]
Read More
Many chambers and individual barristers are represented on my web page . I contacted them recently to ask if they would give me their views on how successful the Public Access scheme has been so far and how they see it developing in the future. Here are their responses, mainly from groups of barristers working […]
Read Moreinfolaw Limited 5 Coval Passage London SW14 7RE Registered in England number 2602204 VAT number GB 602861753
