Month: March 2009
Getting to grips with digital dictation
Digital dictation technology has been with us for nearly 15 years and we have seen a steady progression from cassette-based recorders to MP3 devices. It is surprising, however, that the uptake of the technology was so slow in the early years. Indeed, even now, dictation equipment suppliers say that there is a significant proportion of […]
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E-marketing for barristers – Part 2
The first part of our practical guide to e-marketing for the Bar, in the January/February issue, explained how to breathe new life into your website and underlined the importance of regularly updated news content. Suggestions were made for maximising the effectiveness of marketing e-mails, e-zines and bulletins. However, a chambers’ e-marketing should extend far beyond […]
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How to build an effective email list
Many firms are already convinced of the benefits of email marketing but they struggle to get the programme off the ground due to lack of email data. The aim should be to build a database of clients, contacts and prospects that genuinely welcome hearing from us. With anyone else we are wasting time and money, […]
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SaaS for lawyers
Software as a Service (SaaS) has been with us for several years with hosted applications that deliver information to lawyers. In the examples below, we show how much further this has moved, with law firms using a variety of software services via the internet from simple applications to the whole of their IT systems. Adoption […]
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BAILII developments
BAILII is a non-profit making charitable trust which provides a growing amount of primary and secondary legal material which can be browsed by the user and/or located by using the BAILII search engine. The service is a major tool for legal research and its development is of substantial importance to the practice and teaching of […]
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MyLawyer, Epoq and Rapidocs
MyLawyer is the name of a new service being set up by Epoq, the company behind Rapidocs. Rapidocs is a forms and document generation program which was initially developed over 10 years ago and was the basis for the revolutionary concept of “intelligent” document generation where an internet user was able to create documents relating […]
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Nelsonsonline
Nelsons is one of the largest law firms in the East Midlands and has gained recognition for its dynamic growth and forward thinking. We now have 30 partners and over 130 fee earners covering a broad service mix. We have withdrawn from legal aid work and successfully re-positioned ourselves in the SME business and higher […]
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A barrister in Morocco
My partner and I decided, some four years ago, to move to Morocco. That move was completed this year and my home is now in Marrakech. I anticipated early retirement from the Bar but the reality is that I have been able to continue to practice very much as I had done previously before selling […]
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MacRoberts site breaks new ground
No law firm can today be without a presence on the internet. It is clear that our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders use the internet not only as a source of information but as the primary source of information, about who we are and what we do. It was with that single focus in mind […]
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Resistance to RSS?
It is human nature that people are resistant to change – moving house, working in a new job or dealing with a different culture. For years law firms have struggled with change: Xerox, Windows, faxes, Blackberry. However, as they adjusted, they realised how helpful it became. The feared element eventually became a blessing. RSS, commonly […]
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