In October 2011 the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting launched the new ICLR Online service, for the first time publishing their own reports digitally: previously they had been available on CD and online only through third party publishers: Justis, LexisNexis and Westlaw. ICLR Online includes all the reports published by ICLR for England and Wales […]
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The increasing importance of video on law firm websites Two minutes, yes, just two minutes, that’s all the average visitor to a law firm’s website spends looking around the site. On average they look at between three and four pages per visit ”¦ that’s it! These numbers come from the 2011 benchmark that my firm, […]
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A meeting held by video conference uses dedicated video conference equipment. Typically this is a “room based” system which is designed to accommodate up to 6–10 people. The equipment allows for “real time” or live audio and visual communication. Improvements over recent years in bandwidth, data encoding and system cameras mean that the quality is […]
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In the last issue, Shireen Smith of Azrights Solicitors explained why she thinks that giving free legal advice to attract clients is a bad idea. She thinks that lawyers who do this are letting themselves be taken advantage of and that they should not give away their “treasure trove” for free. However, Shireen is an […]
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One of the most active law topics on the internet is, of course, technology law. Techies invented and developed the internet and have always been at the forefront of web publishing via forums, blogs, wikis and other social media; and tech lawyers have not been far behind as internet developments have thrown up many new […]
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Looseleafs still have their fans Our series on “Law publishing – the end of print?” was launched with an article by Nick Holmes in the May/June 2011 issue. He suggested that particular types of print are under threat – particularly looseleaf. In the September/October 2011 issue, we carried responses from several key legal publishers, in […]
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Delia Venables talks to Craig Holt Delia: How many firms are there now in the Quality group? (You do not keep a list of these on your site at qualitysolicitors.com). And what number are you aiming for? Craig: We’re currently up to about 110 QS firms, which equates to around 220 “branches” across England & […]
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Microsoft Office 365 is a suite of securely hosted (“Cloud”) online applications available now direct from Microsoft that has potential to radically improve use of IT for a wide variety of law firms, not just small firms. However, it may have an Achilles heel for users in the UK; nothing to do with the technology […]
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It is ironic that BAILII, which came into being to free the law, has been called out recently for restricting access to the law. A Guardian editorial in September criticised the status quo in relation to the publication of court judgments and called for more open access. In so doing BAILII came across as the […]
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I have been fascinated by the internet ever since I discovered, on buying my first computer when setting up as a sole practitioner in 1994, that there was this thing called the internet, where computers could talk to each other through telephone lines. I truly believe that it will bring in changes of the same […]
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In the In the May/June issue, Nick Holmes suggested that particular types of print are under threat and he questioned whether ebooks were the future. In the last issue we published replies from three key law publishers. This time we provide a law librarian’s view. Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Librarian Chris Hendry (Sweet & Maxwell, […]
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With Gavin Ward The personal injury referral fee ban The government is seeking to ban the payment of referral fees in personal injury cases. The reasons include the ever-higher costs being charged by insurance companies, encouragement of a compensation culture in the UK and fostering of an industry pursuing claimants for profit. Given the potentially […]
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