Solicitors Journal – how the web helps us to keep a generalist law magazine fresh in the 21st century

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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SharePoint for the smaller firm

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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Update on Pay As You Go

Readers may recall my article in the July/August 2006 issue about the dilemma my firm is experiencing in deciding whether to subscribe to one of many online legal resources (here). Is it worth the considerable cost involved? I ended my article with a plea to LexisNexis to come forward with a Pay As You Go […]

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Personal injury referral panels

If you key ‘personal injury lawyer’ or any variation of that phrase into a search engine, you’ll come up with a myriad of links (including many ‘sponsored’ ones) to PI claims companies and referral outfits. Most of these operate by having a countrywide panel of solicitors to whom they refer cases for a fee. The […]

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