Year: 2011
Domain name disputes
In a typical domain dispute, there will be two entities involved both of which think that they should be entitled to a particular domain name. Often there is a conflict between Domain Rights and Trademark Rights. If one party has a particular domain name but another party owns trademark rights in that name, there is […]
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Keeping a specialised website up to date
In the last issue, we discussed the pros and cons of setting up specialised websites with contributions from two firms who are doing this (Bonallack & Bishop and Douglas Silas) as well as two specialists in legal marketing (Sue Bramall and David Gilroy). One of the points made in the article was that keeping specialised […]
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Social networking – do you get it?
2010 was definitely the year of the social network. Big user numbers. Huge valuations. Excessive media coverage. The majority of us now know what social networking means: it means Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Let’s see who’s using them and why. Facebook is where Generation Y hangs out big time. In that age bracket you really […]
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Transcripts of Judicial Proceedings in England and Wales
This Guide, published by the Inner Temple Library and compiled by Sally McLaren, is a revised and expanded edition of the Library’s 2006 guide. It is intended primarily for information service staff who need to obtain transcripts of the proceedings of courts and tribunals in England and Wales. The guide (in PDF) costs £19.99. Details.
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Blogging – been there, done that?
All the talk these days is about social networking. Have you got a Facebook page? Do you Tweet? Are you LinkedIn? But we should not forget that the granddaddy of the so-called social media is blogging and that’s been around for a long time; so long, in fact, that blogging is now unremarkable; blogging is […]
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Specialised websites
Most specialised websites relate to a particular work area, usually with a work-related domain name. Instead of a firm trying to cover all its work areas in one website, the task is split up into a number of separate sites with each concentrating on one legal area. I have collected all the firms with specialised […]
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Free web resources for criminal lawyers
The Criminal Justice System is often perceived as being rather antiquated, but in reality it is quite technologically advanced. Take for example, the XHIBIT system (eXchanging Hearing Information by Internet Technology) in which court clerks record events in their Crown Court contemporaneously on computer, enabling you to view a hearing’s progress in real time via […]
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Legal Eagles
How technology helped me to produce it, all from New Zealand Two years ago, I decided to write my third book. My first, Why Lawyers Should Eat Bananas, was self-published ten years ago and went on to sell nearly 10,000 hard copies worldwide. My second book, an adaptation of the first, titled Why Entrepreneurs Should […]
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Quill Pinpoint outsourced legal cashiering service
Outsourcing and hosted systems are topics we have covered frequently in the Newsletter over recent issues since we consider that these developments will, over the next few years, transform the legal IT world. Quill Pinpoint (www.quill.co.uk) was established by Tony Landes in 1978 to supply legal software, with Hilary Fisher joining in 1979, Andrew Sherwin […]
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Law ebooks – guidance and questions
In the last issue I wrote of the launch by LexisNexis of a clutch of practitioner ebooks, with plans for more to follow in 2011. Sweet & Maxwell have also now made a start but seem keen not to rush release content; they are releasing a selection of legal texts aimed more at the student […]
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The paperless office – second time lucky?
In a previous article, long, long ago, I described how we tried to go paperless in 2003 but failed largely for human reasons. On 6 September 2010 we succeeded. Why? This article explains. We have been scanning in post since 2003. I personally have been paperless ever since then, but no one else joined me. […]
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