The Network in 2008

In 2008 Facebook et al will continue to prosper, but there is room on the web for anyone with particular expertise and as to what Web 2.0 can do for lawyers, we should be looking elsewhere. In 2008 we’ll see the incumbent law publishers experimenting with Web 2.0, attempting to engage users on their own […]

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Getting to grips with HIPs

Berwins LLP (www.berwin.co.uk) is a 25 fee earner practice, 7 of whom are fully engaged in residential property in Harrogate and regionally. We have busy and successful private client, litigation, commercial and commercial property departments but residential property remains one of our biggest departments in terms of fee income, drawing new business into the practice. […]

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CaseCheck – Law 2.0 in action

CaseCheck (www.casecheck.co.uk) is a free, fully searchable, online archive of continually updated Scottish Court and EAT Case summaries. Built upon an open source blogging platform the content for the site is user generated and archive is composed of a back catalogue of previously issued email newsletters. However, the site is also designed to be a […]

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Wishing on a wiki

At PLC we like to be at the cutting edge of technology in the law, sometimes a difficult place to be. However, social software (blogs, wikis and the like) seemed one of our easier challenges. We already work collaboratively with our users. Our materials are often co-authored with lawyers in practice, we participate in industry […]

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Virtually unrecognisable?

The way things were I can remember my old legal life as if it was yesterday. Groaning filing cabinets stuffed full of cardboard files, a roomful of secretaries devoted to typing letters and filing correspondence, various miscellaneous admin staff, and a firm made up of lawyers who were obliged to be physically present in the […]

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Introducing Law 2.0

The internet is changing from a one-to-many broadcasting medium to a many-to-many communications system. It is becoming a shared resource where anyone can put forward their ideas, amend or correct the ideas of others, talk to their friends, locate long lost friends or find new ones, create and load up pictures or video clips or […]

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What is Web 2.0?

The phrase “Web 2.0” was coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2003 and refers to the way software developers are now using the web as a platform for delivering applications to end users and the consequent transition of websites from isolated information silos to sources of content and functionality. It is often referred to as the […]

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What’s in it for lawyers?

(Continuing the article What is Web 2.0?) Inevitably, Web 2.0 has spawned numerous industry-specific buzzwords: “Gov 2.0” is Web 2.0 in the context of government, “Library 2.0” is Web 2.0 as it relates to librarianship, and of course “Law 2.0” is Web 2.0 for lawyers. What relevance does Web 2.0 have for lawyers and the […]

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Law resources on Europa

Although the original version of Europa, launched in in 1995, simply provided a basic overview of European policies, the site has now become a single access point for official information from all the European institutions. Researchers at all levels, from school children to professors, can find relevant material, and also have direct access to official […]

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Remote access and flexible working

Nowadays there is no reason why people can’t work remotely – or flexibly – if they have all their information stored electronically and the systems and security in place to support them. Remote access requires documents to be scanned on arrival, wherever they arrive, so they can be made available (electronically) at locations where the […]

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Electronic presentation of evidence

Electronic Presentation of Evidence (EPE) is an IT-driven alternative to paper-based presentation in a room being used for a legal hearing, usually a court or arbitration room. Most commonly it will consist of scanned pages of documents being stored on a computer which are made available to the participants of the hearing via presentation on […]

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Barristers writing blogs

Most legal blogs in the UK are written by solicitors – perhaps this is just because there are more solicitors than barristers or perhaps also there are particular personality traits required to be a blogger! However, there is still a good variety of blogs from barristers available, described below, and probably there will be quite […]

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