Justis are exclusively extending their coverage of the Irish Reports on Justis by 81 years, all the way back to 1838. They also become the first publisher in Ireland to offer the authoritative case reports as printable PDFs replicating original pagination. Sinéad Nà Chúlacháin, Editor of the Irish Reports at the Incorporated Council of Law […]
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Less than five years from starting Ingrams Solicitors in 2001, and having expanded to nearly 70 staff across three offices in York, Hull and Harrogate, we discovered we had a communication problem. This surprised us, as we had achieved Investors in People recognition and thought we had established good channels of communication between partners and […]
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Businesses have been using social media (Web 2.0 services) such as blogs, podcasts, virtual worlds and professional networking sites for quite some years as part of their marketing and communications efforts. No business has been able to ignore the implications of these new forms of expression and interaction; just because you’re not writing or talking […]
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How will legal services be “delivered” in future years? We start here a two-part series (to be continued in the next issue) looking at the delivery methods used by some of the key online providers and find out how they are planning to develop their services. We start with an article by Jamie Ross of […]
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As marketing becomes increasingly important for law firms, various advertising methods are being employed in an attempt to attract new prospective clients – including a plethora of search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) campaigns. However, the vast majority of business for most law firms comes from its existing client base. It is […]
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The following statement is painfully obvious, but it has to be said: the internet is a crucial legal resource. Whilst the legal information equivalent of “video killed the radio star” hasn’t occurred, reports on the most important legal developments can often be online weeks, even months, before the legal journals and law reports publish details. […]
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You might think that search engine marketing (SEM) is just about driving traffic to your website and that successful SEM is about driving the right traffic to your website. Indeed, that is the immediate goal of a search campaign, but this goal doesn’t deliver any value in its own right; if people leave without generating […]
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To some “Elise” is a a Lotus sports car; others may think of Beethoven or the princess in the Sonic Hedgehog Playstation game. But to lawyers, at any rate to employment lawyers who are comfortable using the internet, ELISE may soon have a special meaning – the Employment Law Internet Search Engine. The idea behind […]
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The concept of providing computing as a “utility” has started to gain momentum over the last couple of years. Many terms have emerged to describe what is essentially the same thing: SaaS (Software as a Service), ASP (Application Service Provision), hosted services and on-demand computing are just some of them. For the purposes of this […]
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(with James Mullan) Web 2.0 has revolutionised publishing. Technologies like blogs, wikis and RSS have made the publishing process so easy that countless millions are now publishers and yet more millions are contributors. And no longer is publishing simply about broadcasting a message one to many; with the facility for users to respond and contribute, […]
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Democracy – as Abraham Lincoln famously defined it – is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Hitherto, we’ve been able to exercise our democratic rights only at the ballot box, by lobbying our MP and perhaps in public demonstrations. Can Gov 2.0 – the application of Web 2.0 to […]
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I recently attended “Enterprise 2.0 – The evolution of collaboration in your business”, an Ark Group conference looking at how the collaborative technologies underlying Web 2.0 can be used within organisations. There was a good mix of attendees, with a few from legal, but others from the pharmaceutical, media, communications, finance and other sectors. There […]
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