The Justice website

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 […]

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Putting your message in their pocket: the future of web marketing

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 […]

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Justice wide open

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 […]

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Practice management systems in the cloud

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 […]

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Linex Smart Alerts

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 […]

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Two ebiz topics

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 […]

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Barristers Public Access: How successful has it been so far?

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 […]

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LexisNexis eBooks

Since the late 1980s, LexisNexis has been publishing electronic books on floppy disk, on CD and online through LexisLibrary. These are sophisticated ebooks containing links through to cases and legislation as well as other text resources. What has changed in recent years is the rise of the mobile device. Through conversations with our customers and […]

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Keeping up with IP law

There is no shortage of blogs and updates on intellectual property law as IP is a particular preoccupation as the internet and the knowledge economy develop. Here’s a selection, with links to these and more in the infolaw Lawfinder Blogs catalogue. The IPKat and family One of the longest-established bloggers on IP law is Prof […]

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Cloud computing

The terms “cloud computing”, “hosted systems”, “outsourced systems” and “Software as a Service (SaaS)” are now used almost interchangeably. All Newsletter articles on these topics are now indexed under “Cloud computing“.

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Comparing website proposals

Comparing website proposals can be rather like comparing apples with pears. What questions should you ask and how do you know whether the quotes you receive are directly comparable? Designing a website requires the project management of six distinct phases: Planning the structure of the website Designing the look and feel Programming the site and […]

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An online solicitor in Scotland

As a one man band in the Far North of Scotland, I run a fairly standard Scottish county town solicitors office. Over the years, with areas of law becoming increasingly complicated and with the risks involved in being anything but well versed in what you practice, my practice has condensed down to estate agency and […]

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