Month: July 2013
Time for a Campaign for Real SaaS?
From time-to-time the legal IT industry hits a tipping point when almost overnight a new paradigm sweeps into the market and permanently disrupts the previous status quo. One of the best known examples was in the mid-to-late 1990s when the industry standard of green-screen Unix systems was challenged by the rise of Microsoft Windows and […]
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Reinvent Law London 2013
How long does it take for an event to become a fixture in the landscape? The London marathon managed to do it following its first running in 1981 and has not looked back since. Another event, not quite on the same scale perhaps, looks set to make a similar impact in the legal arena. Last […]
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Implementing a hosted practice management system
More than 2,200 UK legal practices and ABSs now use a hosted practice management system (PMS) with their system and data held (hosted) in a secure, remote location, accessed via the internet, in preference to keeping servers and software on-premise in their own offices. That is roughly 20 per cent of all law firms and […]
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DropBox – a lawyer’s perspective
For anyone who hasn’t come across DropBox, the strapline on their site is as good an introduction as any: “Your stuff, anywhere.” In (slightly) more technical terms, DropBox is a cloud-based storage service which maintains a copy of one of more folders on your computer. The clever part is that it also ensures that the […]
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The best of both – bricks and mortar and virtual
The coming of the much-vaunted information age, improvements in digital and internet technology, and the increasing requirement for law firms to diversify and innovate over the last ten years has led to a series of interesting experiments in business models for lawyers. Law firms (as demonstrated by the success of such firms as Excello Law, […]
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Best of the Legal Web – specific practice areas
In the May/June Newsletter I considered some of the best websites for lawyers of general applicability. Here, I am covering resources focused upon specific practice areas. Criminal law It would be impossible to write any review of the legal web for criminal lawyers without referring to the truly excellent CrimeLine. Frankly if criminal lawyers had […]
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Recent developments in information law
Information law is a fast-moving and diverse area. It encompasses statutory rights of access to information, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), rights in respect of personal information, under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), the right to respect for private life, under Article 8 of […]
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Keeping up to date with the law
BAILII has been providing free access to case law for 14 years and legislation.gov.uk provides advanced (if not yet up to date) open access to all in force legislation. These resources have changed the ground rules for law publishing: smaller publishers are relying on them, adding their own value and developing new update services. We […]
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Quill Pinpoint: How outsourced cashiering works
Julian Bryan represents Quill Pinpoint The challenge for small practices If you’re a partner in a small practice or a sole practitioner, the challenges of business management take many forms. First, there’s the likelihood that you’re managing all areas of your practice on top of earning fees. The cost of employing dedicated staff for specialised […]
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