All the talk these days is about social networking. Have you got a Facebook page? Do you Tweet? Are you LinkedIn? But we should not forget that the granddaddy of the so-called social media is blogging and that’s been around for a long time; so long, in fact, that blogging is now unremarkable; blogging is […]
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Most specialised websites relate to a particular work area, usually with a work-related domain name. Instead of a firm trying to cover all its work areas in one website, the task is split up into a number of separate sites with each concentrating on one legal area. I have collected all the firms with specialised […]
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The Criminal Justice System is often perceived as being rather antiquated, but in reality it is quite technologically advanced. Take for example, the XHIBIT system (eXchanging Hearing Information by Internet Technology) in which court clerks record events in their Crown Court contemporaneously on computer, enabling you to view a hearing’s progress in real time via […]
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How technology helped me to produce it, all from New Zealand Two years ago, I decided to write my third book. My first, Why Lawyers Should Eat Bananas, was self-published ten years ago and went on to sell nearly 10,000 hard copies worldwide. My second book, an adaptation of the first, titled Why Entrepreneurs Should […]
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Outsourcing and hosted systems are topics we have covered frequently in the Newsletter over recent issues since we consider that these developments will, over the next few years, transform the legal IT world. Quill Pinpoint (www.quill.co.uk) was established by Tony Landes in 1978 to supply legal software, with Hilary Fisher joining in 1979, Andrew Sherwin […]
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In the last issue I wrote of the launch by LexisNexis of a clutch of practitioner ebooks, with plans for more to follow in 2011. Sweet & Maxwell have also now made a start but seem keen not to rush release content; they are releasing a selection of legal texts aimed more at the student […]
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In a previous article, long, long ago, I described how we tried to go paperless in 2003 but failed largely for human reasons. On 6 September 2010 we succeeded. Why? This article explains. We have been scanning in post since 2003. I personally have been paperless ever since then, but no one else joined me. […]
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It has taken a while, but with the release of the latest version of the Kindle, Kindle 3, Amazon has let UK residents get their hands on the ebook reader and a dedicated UK Kindle store for the first time, and at just £109 for the wifi only version, it suddenly looks like a tempting […]
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There is no better place to start any tour of free web resources for lawyers than with the 2 big hitters of BAILII and legislation.gov.uk, covering as they do the twin pillars of case law and legislation. The fantastic BAILII website covers British and Irish case law and legislation dating back to 1996 (and in […]
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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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Nearly a decade ago a Law Commission/Land Registry report described a future landscape for conveyancing. The report, entitled Land Registration for the twenty-first century, a conveyancing revolution, set out a vision in which users of the e-conveyancing network could transact with each other securely, users could share information electronically, errors and discrepancies would be identified […]
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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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