Year: 2009
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 We have withdrawn from legal aid work and successfully re-positioned ourselves in the SME business and higher […]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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Law publishing at the crossroads
You? In the current climate of rapid technological change, upheavals in the legal profession and global recession, what does the future hold for law publishing? The publishing revolution I have been fortunate to have been involved at first hand in the entire modern publishing revolution. When I first started out in law publishing, authors […]
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E-marketing for barristers – Part 1
Online news and e-marketing are generally neglected by the Bar. Most Bar websites are static brochures, and emails about seminars mark the limit of other e-marketing. For chambers with the motivation, there is therefore plenty of opportunity to stand out. To make any progress, you will need an e-marketing plan. This should complement your existing […]
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Open access Scottish law reports
Session Cases, published by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting, are the nearest thing Scotland has to an “official” law reports series. Uniquely in Scotland they are prepared by practising advocates (barristers) whilst the judges have the opportunity to revise the reports of their cases before they are published. The Practice Notes (Practice Directions) of […]
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New HIP Regulations – where we are now
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has recently made and laid in Parliament a set of Home Information Pack (HIP) Regulations regarding the ending of the transitional arrangements. The main provisions are: The Local and Water and Drainage Searches will, despite a certain amount of negativity, remain a compulsory component of the HIP. […]
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Introducing an intranet
Leigh Day & Co is a 19-partner firm in London that specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury and human rights law. The firm had previously used a simple intranet that ran on Microsoft FrontPage, maintained by the librarian and IT manager. This had a few pages relating to library services and a gallery of photos […]
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New online ventures for OUP
Oxford University Press has made its first foray into online information for lawyers and legal researchers. The launch of three new services marks a significant phase in Oxford’s shift from a traditional academic print publisher, to one which now offers a broad range of services in book, journal, looseleaf and online form, and which is […]
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