According to a recent study by ComScore, 70 per cent of people using search engines include a location modifier, eg “solicitors in Manchester”, to find an offline business and 54 per cent of searchers use the internet rather than the phone book to find services. However, it’s not just being found on search engines that’s […]
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I will declare an interest here: I have not only worked for and with law firms for the last two decades, I am currently researching in brand equity and have spent a lot of my free time reading around the area in the last year. The legal profession is awash with talk about brands and […]
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On 6 September 2010, Abney Garsden McDonald solicitors took the plunge, and went paperless. In a previous article I described the process of evolution from conventional paper files, through scanning all incoming correspondence in 2003, to “paperless” a year ago. We now have clean desks, fewer filing cabinets, large bins for shredding on each floor […]
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On 1 April 2011 the Justice site (www.justice.gov.uk) was born. This is not the Ministry of Justice site by another name but the beginnings of a “super-site” that will act as a portal to all services within the justice system for the professional user. The previous administration’s “Transformational Government Strategy” (published by the Cabinet Office […]
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Basic Information from Paul Coombes, of Pannone LLP The Connect2Law network for law firms was established in 2001 by Pannone LLP. There is no cost to membership and the primary benefit was to offer member firms the ability to service their clients in areas of law they didn’t undertake themselves by referring them to Pannone. […]
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JustCite, the multijurisdictional citator from Justis, has been rebuilt from the ground up, with the new version released in December 2010. More recently it has been enhanced to incorporate details of barristers in England and Wales, cross-linked to their cases. But perhaps the biggest shift is that now the first page of JustCite results is […]
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BAILII (the British and Irish Legal Information Institute) provides access to the most comprehensive free and up-to-date collection of British and Irish primary legal materials on the internet with 76 databases covering 7 jurisdictions including the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the European Court of Human Rights. Also on BAILII are Law […]
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The launch in July 2010 of legislation.gov.uk to little fanfare (there was no marketing budget!) was a significant landmark achievement, both in terms of official legislation and of the whole Berners Lee inspired concept in Government of “linked data” and the semantic web. And, like many aspects of public sector information, it raises enormous issues […]
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In my last article I wrote about the risks employers face from the use by employees of social media and recommended that businesses have a social media policy. Why is a policy necessary? Employers need to manage their employees fairly and consistently and this applies to how they respond to their employees’ usage of social […]
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The Family Procedure Rules 2010 came into effect on 6 April 2011. The new Rules attempt to provide a single set of rules for all family proceedings in all levels of court, thereby replacing a large body of unconsolidated rules, practice directions, guidance and forms. At the same time, the Rules aim to modernise many […]
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There’s too much in favour of print to bury it prematurely, but we know that particular types of print are under severe threat from the disruptive influences of the internet. The continuing decline of newsprint in the face of free news online has been well documented. Trade magazines also are falling like ninepins as their […]
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Over recent issues, we have covered hosted systems in a number of ways, including reviews of several products and services, with comments from users. In this article, we look at the DPS hosted solution. Founded 25 years ago, DPS Software is one of the UK’s leading providers of case management and accounting software with over […]
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