Month: March 2014
Legal Web Watch March 2014
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. The web at 25 and a digital bill of rights It was 25 years ago that Tim Berners Lee, working at CERN, “invented” the […]
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The end of disruption?
One of the topics on the agenda for the LexThink.1 event, which takes place in Chicago on the 26th March (presenters are chosen by a popular vote and each get six minutes to speak with 20 slides automatically forwarding every 18 seconds) is titled The End of Richard Susskind. The speaker, Will Hornsby, explains “Modern-day […]
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Efficiency through integration: “joined-up” software is critical
Osman Ismail represents DPS Software. As overall profitability is ultimately a product of long-term healthy cash-flow, it is crucial within a law firm, as within any business, to be able to monitor this cash-flow accurately. At the same time, tracking your fee earners’ efficiency and assigning their time a financial value is equally important as […]
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Getting local in search
The internet may be global, but for many firms of solicitors their most desirable customers are right on the doorstep in the local area and their potential customers are using the internet to find a local legal services provider. Google reports that more than 20 per cent of all searches have local intention, 92 per […]
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Big Data for Law
Big data is big news. An estimated 90 per cent of the world’s data was created in the last two years (see www.ibm.com/big-data) and insights gleaned from large datasets are increasingly driving business innovation and economic growth. Underpinning this “big data revolution” is a powerful combination of low cost cloud computing, open source analytics software […]
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Twitter for law job seekers
This is the second of two articles showing how social media can be used to best effect in job seeking. The first in the January issue looked at LinkedIn. Twitter has been used by lawyers and legal professionals since its introduction for connecting with other like-minded professionals. Job seekers are increasingly using the platform for […]
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Social media monitoring
Social media monitoring is the act of tracking when a certain word or phrase gets mentioned on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. People use the internet regularly to look for recommendations and to express their opinions about the products and services they use. In addition, search engines have begun to use […]
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Lawyers selling SaaS
Many lawyers are only just getting round to the idea that their website needs investment and work to ensure results. But what about taking the next step and creating online software – “Software as a Service”. This can not only earn a modest income for the firm but also, more importantly, gain “real” clients. What […]
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Languages for lawyers
In the January issue I covered some of the general material on the internet designed to help you learn a language. In this article I look at some of the material covering legal topics as well as describing a few more of the more general resources. If your French is already reasonably good, you can […]
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Free European sources
When we use e-resources in the law, there has been a tendency to value the paid resources over the free ones. Sometimes the free resources are not seen as truly comprehensive collections, whereas the purchased ones are; sometimes the linking and cross referencing is more sophisticated in the commercial databases; often the value-added editorial content […]
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The UKSC Blog
The UKSC Blog was founded in the summer of 2009 to mark the move of the Law Lords from the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords across the road to the Supreme Court. It was set up by Dan Tench of Olswang LLP and Hugh Tomlinson QC of Matrix Chambers as a blog dedicated […]
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