Year: 2018
GDPR – the dust is settling
The panic has receded. The frantic drafting has slowed down. The GDPR – widely regarded as the most ambitious data protection legal framework ever created – is in place and life goes on. As the dust left by the dramatic coming into effect of the GDPR settles, we are beginning to see what the GDPR […]
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Open access to case law – how do we get there?
Open access to case law in England and Wales is in a very poor state of health, both in terms of the amount of case law that is freely accessible to the public and in terms of the sustainability and development of the open case law apparatus in this jurisdiction. It is true that the […]
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LinkedIn – the lawyer’s social media channel of choice
LinkedIn, acquired by Microsoft in 2016, has over 250 million active monthly users and, according to research from Attorney at Work, it is the most popular social media channel in the US legal sector, used by over 90 per cent of lawyers and forming part of the overall marketing strategy in around 70 per cent […]
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Legal information online in the Republic of Ireland
The principal types of online law sources in the Republic of Ireland are as follows: legislative material published by the State; legal publishers’ materials pitched at the legal professions, subject to subscription; general citizens’ rights and business information; information and guides published by various statutory bodies on their activities; a number of legal blogs on […]
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The state of legal blogs
Legal blogs have been mainstream since the mid-2000s. Originally they seemed very modern, but now they seem rather ordinary. One has to ask “what are they for?” That is where the topic becomes interesting again. Blogs are pretty normal now; but they are not necessarily called blogs and are used in a number of ways: individual thoughts on […]
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Why blog?
Blogging is a simple, cheap, efficient, effective way to publish and update time-sensitive information, particularly in constantly-changing fields such as the law. Blogging puts in your hands publishing power even greater than that which was the preserve of only large, established publishers with fat wallets not so long ago. Content management, feed generation, subscriber management, […]
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The Internet, Warts and All
The Internet, Warts and All: Free Speech, Privacy and Truth by Paul Bernal is not a law book; it is a book about seeking to understand an environment – the internet – in which the law operates. It is a book about law, but “It is also … about technology, about politics, about psychology, about […]
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Transforming access to justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service held a public event on 6 November, inviting those who represent public court users to see first-hand the progress made over the last year with the court reform program. One such representative was Roger Smith who has reported back, generally positively, on his Law, Technology & Acees to Justice blog. […]
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Delia’s legal web picks November 2018
The following items have been selected from Delia Venables’ “New” page. LEAP wins two awards at the British Legal Technology Awards 2018 Leap, a leading provider of legal practice management software for lawyers, has won awards for “Innovation in Legal Services” and “Supplier of the Year” (Small & Medium Enterprise) in the British Legal Technology […]
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CPD and continuing competence for 2018 – do it online now!
We can (again) help you complete your continuing competence requirements this year. Our Internet for Lawyers CPD 2018 competence service guides you, via online articles and exercises, through the legal resources and tools available, helps you understand the internet and the legal issues it raises and assists you in the practical application of internet services […]
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Copyright and the blockchain
Whilst I have written extensively about the blockchain in the past, copyright itself has not really been of much interest to the research community, perhaps because the use cases have not been very prevalent in the media. If we define the blockchain as an immutable decentralised database, then it could be easy to see some […]
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What is legal design?
With Emily Allbon Legal design is the process of applying design-thinking to complex legal information, to make the law more accessible and easier to understand for its intended audience. Never was it more evident how ill at ease most of us are when it comes to digesting legal information, than during the pre-GDPR flood of […]
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