In the last issue of this newsletter, Steve Butler explained his disillusionment with Wikis – Why Wikis Won’t Work (for The Law). I agree that a website that can be edited by members of the public may not be the best way of compiling “… a multi media encyclopaedia of English law”. However, a Wiki […]
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A candidate aiming to win a training contract in the modern era will have a great deal of information. Alerted by the careers service to the need to begin research early, he or she will investigate timetables, events and employer options on specialist firm graduate sites, dedicated careers resources such as LawCareers.Net and online versions […]
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It is sometimes difficult to comprehend how, in the not too distant past, anyone could book a hotel without looking at TripAdvisor or could invite someone out for lunch without checking a user review published in Toptable or london- eating. Today, we rely on the collective wisdom of total strangers (although not necessarily to the […]
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In the e-book with CPD “Changing Practice for Barristers” by Nick Holmes and me, I asked which two of the sites provided by individual barristers the people taking the course (themselves largely barristers) found most useful. Nearly 100 people have now taken this course. Here are the sites I asked them to look at, together […]
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In the last issue of the Newsletter, solicitor Steve Butler, who produces the UKLawyers weekly legal newswire, changed his former opinion that a grand centralised law wiki could be an enormously valuable resource (see Why Wikis Won’t Work (for The Law)). Having previously been impressed by Richard Susskind’s comments along these lines Steve now believes […]
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Statute Law Database After a 10-year wait, the Statute Law Database was finally released to the public just in time for Christmas (see part of the Home Page below). The Government Service enquiry system was launched in May 2006 and the pilot for the public version amongst selected trial users ran from July to October. […]
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Schneider Page was founded in 1993, and was located in a traditional bricks and mortar premises in Staple Inn. However it was never intended to work just as a traditional firm. We set out to use technology as much as possible, without being at the “bleeding edge”. We never had support staff and since there […]
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2007 will be the year that many law firms and chambers finally wake up to the need to collaborate and start to use internal social software to achieve this. First, what IS social software exactly? According to the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, social software is software which enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated […]
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The original Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.com, is an amazing project where any of us can edit any entry to add our knowledge to the pool of information on the web. Can law wikis be as good? On the face of it, their ability to be easily updated might indicate that they can be. Indeed, wikis have been […]
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One of the most significant developments in the provision of legal information online over the last few years is the extensive – free – information now being made available by chambers and individual barristers on their web sites. Their aim may be mainly to prove their expertise but also they just cannot resist making available […]
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Who needs a generalist law magazine these days? This is a question which we, at Solicitors Journal, are acutely aware of as we turn 150 in January. The Journal started in 1857 as The Solicitors Journal and Reporter in the days where solicitors had no voice to channel their interests and share their experiences, well […]
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Microsoft’s third version of SharePoint is called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or ‘MOSS’ for short. Larger firms have been using SharePoint for some time but smaller firms have generally not had the resources to do so. The latest release of SharePoint Server may enable them now to close the technological divide. Here are some […]
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