A response to the article on virtual firms in the last issue of the Newsletter Is it a good idea to label one’s firm as “virtual”? To be honest I try to disguise my virtualness rather than boast of it. I suspect there are a large number of other firms which are virtual, but which […]
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The starting place for all information on the Institutions of Europe is the Europa site. This is a many-layered site, attempting to provide information to several types of viewer, from children, students and adult viewers with many different types of interest, through to politicians and lawyers looking for the nitty gritty stuff of the EU. […]
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Many chambers provide useful resources on their web sites but most are a bit “occasional” in style. However, there are a few who have committed themselves to providing fully researched and managed ongoing resources which can be seen as a major free legal resource. Garden Court Chambers have created a bank of specialist legal resources […]
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A virtual law firm – Woolley & Co Over the last couple of years, we have covered a whole series of virtual firms in this newsletter. In some cases, the firms have sprung up as a fully-formed (but usually one-person) virtual firm; in others, the firm has gently moved from being a “normal” firm with […]
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“I would like to make it clear” said Craig Holt, barrister, founder and CEO of Quality Solicitors “that this is not just a referral company, providing leads to solicitors. It is much more than that.” Right. So what is it then? It all started when Craig moved to Leicestershire and had difficulties in finding a […]
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In the early 1990s Justis Publishing provided electronic access to the Law Reports, Weekly Law Reports and other series. The first to do so, it still supplies online cases and legislation on its full-text Justis legal library. But the company saw how an aspect of Justis could be expanded into a new service: one that […]
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Digital devices (and thus digital evidence) are ubiquitous, and any lawyer that fails to ask their client for evidence from their laptop, Blackberry, mobile telephone, memory sticks or iPod is risking an action in negligence if such evidence could have been made available and would have been relevant in any legal proceedings but was not […]
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It would be an understatement to say we live in challenging times and no doubt the next 18 months will continue to be difficult. It is at such times that innovation thrives, whether this is through new products and services or new business models or tweaks to old models. It is likely that outsourcing and […]
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Most users don’t look past the first two or three pages of results returned by a search engine, so understanding and implementing search engine optimisation (SEO) is critical. SEO is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a website from search engines via natural (or “organic”) – as opposed to paid […]
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Expensive centralised, standalone systems and complex processes of communicating and storing information are amongst some of the main contributors to wasteful and inefficient processes. People need to work on a platform that gets them out of their in-boxes and word documents. New tools like wikis, blogs, RSS and personal dashboards are combined in this platform […]
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In 1996 HMSO started publishing new legislation on its website. Comprehensive coverage was later extended back to 1987 for Acts and 1988 for SIs. Although publication of legislation was timely and presentation competent, we yearned for what had been promised for many years – a comprehensive, up-to-date version of the statute book. Finally it arrived […]
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When Members at One Crown Office Row (1COR) first discussed setting up a Human Rights Website in 1997, what everybody had in mind was something that ran along the lines of a university law syllabus, with private law categories on one side, tort, contract, equity and so on; and public law on the other, with […]
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