Day: 23 November 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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