Year: 2012
Promoting your chambers
Spending money on promotion for your chambers is often seen as a massive punt, a huge risk, a pure gamble. But it needn’t be that way. It’s all about measuring your return on investment, and understanding that for success to be had, the investments needs to be planned, budgeted for and delivered via integrated marketing […]
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Who owns copyright in judgments?
With Delia Venables In one of our CPD courses last year, in a chapter on access to law, we stated that “There is some argument whether judges are public servants or not and hence whether their judgments are public sector information or not. In addition, regarding older judgments, the low level of originality required for […]
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Keeping up with information law
Another legal topic that has developed hand in hand with the internet is information law – a small but perfectly formed area of law where there is a great deal of online update, comment and other activity, not just from qualified lawyers, but from journalists and rights activists. Here is a selection of key blogs […]
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ProView professional grade ebooks
Rapidly evolving mobile technologies in the form of tablets, ultra-thin lap-tops and smart phones are having a profound impact on the practice of law. Around 9 per cent of the UK population now owns a tablet compared to just 2 per cent a year ago and adoption is accelerating. Sales of tablets now exceed the […]
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Conscious Guide to the EU Directive on use of Cookies
A summary of the issues and what it all means for your website Andrew Gray represents Conscious Solutions New rules about the use of cookies came into effect in the UK on 26 May 2011. Many people have asked what impact the new rules will have on Users of their websites and what they need […]
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Introducing ICLR Online
In October 2011 the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting launched the new ICLR Online service, for the first time publishing their own reports digitally: previously they had been available on CD and online only through third party publishers: Justis, LexisNexis and Westlaw. ICLR Online includes all the reports published by ICLR for England and Wales […]
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Two ebiz topics
The increasing importance of video on law firm websites Two minutes, yes, just two minutes, that’s all the average visitor to a law firm’s website spends looking around the site. On average they look at between three and four pages per visit ”¦ that’s it! These numbers come from the 2011 benchmark that my firm, […]
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Video conferencing
A meeting held by video conference uses dedicated video conference equipment. Typically this is a “room based” system which is designed to accommodate up to 6–10 people. The equipment allows for “real time” or live audio and visual communication. Improvements over recent years in bandwidth, data encoding and system cameras mean that the quality is […]
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The case for offering free legal advice
In the last issue, Shireen Smith of Azrights Solicitors explained why she thinks that giving free legal advice to attract clients is a bad idea. She thinks that lawyers who do this are letting themselves be taken advantage of and that they should not give away their “treasure trove” for free. However, Shireen is an […]
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Keeping up with technology and media law
One of the most active law topics on the internet is, of course, technology law. Techies invented and developed the internet and have always been at the forefront of web publishing via forums, blogs, wikis and other social media; and tech lawyers have not been far behind as internet developments have thrown up many new […]
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The end of print? Not yet!
Looseleafs still have their fans Our series on “Law publishing – the end of print?” was launched with an article by Nick Holmes in the May/June 2011 issue. He suggested that particular types of print are under threat – particularly looseleaf. In the September/October 2011 issue, we carried responses from several key legal publishers, in […]
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QualitySolicitors – how is it going?
Delia Venables talks to Craig Holt Delia: How many firms are there now in the Quality group? (You do not keep a list of these on your site at qualitysolicitors.com). And what number are you aiming for? Craig: We’re currently up to about 110 QS firms, which equates to around 220 “branches” across England & […]
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