Year: 2014
Working on the web
I have been working on the web for a long time. I set up my first website in the 1990s and my membership site, Landlord Law, which I set up in 2001, is my main source of income now. So what have I learned over the years? And how can my experience help you? Being […]
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SEO: law and good practice
Humans love miracles. Even if you don’t believe that Jesus turned water into wine or fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish, miracle cures still attract many. The 19th century gave us snake oil salesmen whose products could cure all ills. Even today people still believe in losing weight through taking obscure supplements, […]
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Who links to my site?
With webmasters and site owners talking about the signals that links are sending to Google about their website, it is very important to know who is linking to you. We find that many business owners do not know how to check the links to their website and often do not even know that they can […]
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Reinventing law
ReInvent Law London 2014 took place on 20 June. This was its third London outing. It appeared first in 2012 as Law Tech Camp and was renamed ReInvent Law for 2013. I have attended all three and gave a presentation at this year’s event. ReInvent Law is the brainchild of Daniel Katz and Renee Knake […]
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ODR in family law
Family law today is a cottage industry. Despite new entrants looking to offer national, commoditised legal services, most family law services continue to be offered and delivered in the traditional way by a large number of solicitor suppliers. In 2013 there were about 13,500 solicitors practising family law in England and Wales – about 11 […]
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Justice online
Justice.gov.uk is on borrowed time. The intention is to move all information on that site and many other justice system websites to GOV.UK. Justice.gov.uk and those other websites will ultimately disappear. Much has moved already. As such, it is important to get to grips with GOV.UK. This article describes its structure and features with reference […]
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Profitable probate – use software to increase profit
“I have been using Probate Plus for over 10 years and have found it to be a very effective work tool. Without it I would have been unable to administer a number of high value and multiple asset estates during this period. I cannot recommend it too highly as a system for the efficient delivery […]
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The internet, useless data and networking
As an accountant who has spent almost his whole career building businesses – mainly start-ups – I really value good data, especially those predictive of future outcomes. I have been active in building web-based businesses – businesses that “live” on the web, not just “use” the web – so they have to succeed on the […]
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Legal Web Watch July/August 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. Dot rollout – hundreds of new domains hit the streets It's sobering to reflect that 20 years ago most businesses, even big businesses, didn't […]
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Time to reopen the CAPEX v OPEX debate
While any discussions about legal technology inevitably have a strong focus on what sort of technology law firms and legal service providers should be buying and how best to then handle the rollout to get lawyers actually using it, the issue of how to pay for it tends to be ignored. All too often firms […]
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The future of law reporting
The legal professions, however unwillingly, and indeed the English legal system itself, are undergoing profound changes. Law reporting is bound to adapt. The range and type of information which needs to be published is changing. The model of a carefully curated selection of momentous precedents – cases which marked out a path of stepping stones […]
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BYOD is no fun for SysAdmins
In the old days it was relatively easy to determine what devices were connected to the corporate network; they were large and cumbersome. Indeed, it was difficult for new devices to be connected to the network without the assistance of the corporate IT department; the confusing array of IP addresses and ports and the obscure […]
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