Year: 2015
Back to the Future of Law
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch late October 2015. 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. An updated version has now been published in the November Newsletter. Image: Big Data Analytics by Jim Kaskade on […]
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Delia’s legal web picks October 2015
The following items have been selected from Delia Venables’ “New” page. This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch late October 2015. 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. Peter Garsden wins Law Society award for Solicitor […]
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Is ad blocking unfair?
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch October 2015. 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. Ad blocking has been much discussed recently, particularly since Apple allowed apps with ad blocking capabilities to operate with Safari […]
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Delia’s legal web picks September 2015
The following items have been selected from Delia Venables’ “New” page. They appeared in Legal Web Watch October 2015. 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. New site created to link available lawyers with needs for representation […]
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Case study: AVRillo conveyancers choose Proclaim PMS from Eclipse
Based in Enfield, AVRillo is a family-run practice specialising in Conveyancing. The firm, established in 1989, is still setting the standards within the legal sector with its multi award-winning services. In addition to being an Investors in Business winner and a Sunday Times Award winner, AVRillo’s reputation for quality and expertise has been rewarded by […]
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Law firms still not proactively investing in IT?
It is now nearly 20 years ago since my book Legal Practice in the Digital Age was first published. The book’s central theme was that despite all the money law firms were spending on technology in those days, most of this money (money which might otherwise be going to partners) was being spent on the wrong stuff. […]
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Can ODR deliver better access to justice?
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is well known within the legal profession for his numerous books predicting a dramatic transformation in legal practice, and calling for an overhaul of 21st century lawyering. In February 2015 he made national headlines for his proposed eBay-style scheme for online dispute resolution (ODR) and the recommendation that HMCTS introduce a […]
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The intellectual property revolution
Despite the UK Government commissioning the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth in 2010 to ensure the UK has an IP framework best suited to supporting innovation and promoting economic growth in the digital age, there is still a marked lack of awareness in the business community about intellectual property and what it means. […]
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Getting the best from GOV.UK
The Government has been transitioning its published web data to the GOV.UK platform over the last few years. Since the move of departmental websites over to GOV.UK, which completed in December 2014, documents and information have become increasingly hard to find. Collections of information on certain topics that previously could be browsed on departmental websites […]
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Introducing eDisclosure and eSignatures
The “e” in the lives of lawyers has gradually crept up on us, and will remain with us for the foreseeable future. Our new world is full of dangers from the point of view of practice. The Bars and Law Societies continue to produce guidelines regarding practice, and any readers, if they are not already […]
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Free case law resources online
Here is a selection of some of the most important resources for free case law online drawn from my web page www.venables.co.uk/caselaw.htm. BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) provides free access to the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of British & Irish primary legal materials on the internet with 90 databases covering 7 jurisdictions. […]
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Five free (or low cost) digital marketing tools
There are so many excellent tools for different purposes that I think I need to start with two pieces of rather generic advice. Firstly, your time is expensive and limited; so fast, easy things are generally better value than less slick free ones. Secondly, where a product has a free version and a paid-for version, […]
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