Author: Delia Venables
Delia Venables founded her Legal Resources website in 1995 and the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers in 1998. She edited the Newsletter jointly with Nick Holmes from 2007 to 2018. Email deliavenables@gmail.com. Twitter @deliavenables
A farewell from Delia Venables
I have lived with the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers for 20 years. I started it as an adjunct to the Venables website www.venables.co.uk but it soon developed a life of its own. It was of course only provided in printed form originally. I remember how it had to be written, printed, collated, packed up and […]
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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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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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The case for offering free legal advice – in 2018
Long, long ago (2012) I wrote an article on this topic for the Newsletter and asked firms who had said that they were willing, in principle, to give some free initial legal advice, whether they thought it was worthwhile. Broadly, most of them did. You can read this article at http://bit.ly/INL1201venables. This year I again […]
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Delia’s legal web picks September 2018
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch September 2018. Legal Web Watch is a free email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. The following items have been selected from Delia Venables’ “New” page. The ILFM legal software suppliers guide for 2018-2019 is now […]
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Changing your cloud system supplier
Changing your legal software supplier has always been difficult and on occasions, acrimonious. Each software system will have different ways of setting up clients, names and addresses and other characteristics, entering financial information, managing the handling of cases (with different case management systems), managing the security of the data, restructuring management reports, how long to […]
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Delia’s legal web picks June 2018
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch June 2018. Legal Web Watch is a free email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. The following items have been selected from Delia Venables’ “New” page. News from the Legal Software Suppliers Association (LSSA) The LSSA […]
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IT and practice management for chambers
There are not as many IT and practice management services for barristers as for solicitors but there are some very strong players available. Here are the key players in this market (based on my web page www.venables.co.uk/chambers-it.htm), followed by two short articles from key providers of services to chambers, Martin Poulter and Helen Ford, providing […]
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Direct access – how is it going?
Under the Bar Council scheme launched in 2004, members of the public and businesses may now instruct barristers directly and without the intervention of a solicitor. There has been a lot of talk and discussion on this new “freedom” since then, along the lines of the following questions: Will it benefit members of the public? […]
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Transcription, voice recognition, document generation and AI
With contributions from Gordon Healiss, Norma Laming and Greig Duncan When I set up my web page on Transcription www.venables.co.uk/transcription.htm several years ago, it all seemed rather straightforward. I described the methods of input and output, the speed of the transcription, the security of the process and the cost. Now, the concept of transcription has […]
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Legal software and IT in Ireland
This short article is based on my web page www.venables.co.uk/softwareireland.htm which provides links to the software companies websites. The “problem” for Ireland, as for any smaller country, has been that the potential market for the sale of legal software is much smaller than for countries with larger numbers of law firms. A few years ago, […]
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Delia’s legal web picks December 2017
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch December 2017. Legal Web Watch is a free email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. The following items have been selected from Delia Venables’ “New” page. LGSS Law win Award using DPS Software’s CMS LGSS Law […]
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