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
Delia’s legal web picks June 2015
The following items included in Legal Web Watch have been selected from Delia’s “New” page. Follow Delia on Twitter @deliavenables and keep up with her “New” page on a regular basis. New Law Society practice note on the use of social media by legal professionals The Law Society has issued an updated practice note on […]
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Delia’s legal web picks March 2015
The following items included in Legal Web Watch March 2015 have been selected from Delia’s “New” page. Follow Delia on Twitter @deliavenables and keep up with her “New” page on a regular basis. Legal Topics with a difference from Justis Publishing The Justis Blog is well worth watching, with topics which are just a little […]
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Author, librarian, academic, lawyer
YouGov research reveals that the most desired jobs in Britain are not what you might expect; they are not even the most reliably well paid ones. Instead of actors and musicians, it seems that an aura of prestige still surrounds the quiet, intellectual life enjoyed by authors (60 per cent of respondents would like to […]
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International legal resources
The resources described in this article are mainly world-wide collections prepared by governmental, academic and other non-profit bodies. This type of resource is a good place to start if you are looking for something from a less well known country. World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is the umbrella organisation for the worldwide “family” of Legal […]
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Legal news and resources in the USA
USA legal news sources Since many of the legal issues of today were already active, yesterday, in the USA, it is often worth keeping up to date with USA legal news sources. Here are some of the key ones. Law.com is an extensive source of legal news (and nice pictures). This site, part of the […]
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European institutions and legal resources
EU institutions Europa is the official website of the European Union and the starting place for all information on the Institutions of Europe. It is a complex site, attempting to provide information for many different types of viewer – from children, students and adult viewers through to politicians and lawyers looking for the “nitty gritty” […]
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Legal services – who are you afraid of in 2014?
A year ago, David Gilroy of Conscious Solutions wrote an article for the Newsletter on this topic. We also included the article in our online course Solicitors and the Internet 2013 and asked solicitors what their opinion is of the legal service providers quoted. Here are some of their comments together with a few words […]
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Data Privacy Law app
Ireland’s first dedicated Data Privacy Law app has been launched by leading Irish firm A&L Goodbody. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner supports this useful tool as it is aimed at senior management, privacy law professionals and in-house lawyers who need to respond to an increasing number of data protection requirements and challenges that data security […]
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Panopticon – a favoured information law blog
In the CPD course Developments in the Legal Web 2012 prepared by Nick Holmes and me, we asked participants which of the sites covered in our Chapter 4 – Keeping up with tech, media and IP law – they would find most useful. A clear winner in the participants’ preferences was Panopticon, from the 11KBW […]
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Tomorrow’s Lawyers
Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future is a new book by Richard Susskind, published by Oxford University Press, January 2013. It is smaller and more compact than Richard’s previous books and inexpensive (in paperback at £9.99) but contains the condensed and assimilated wisdom of one of the most important thinkers that we have about […]
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Practice management systems in the cloud (2)
In the last issue, we provided contributions from DPS, Eclipse, Iris, LawCloud and LexisNexis. Here we continue with four more key suppliers. Linetime are a leading supplier of practice, case and matter management systems with 30 years experience of the legal sector. Clients range from mid tier firms through to top 50 practices. Years of […]
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The Justice website
The Justice site was launched in April 2011 as the government’s attempt to bring together all websites related to the UK justice system for the professional user. Initially it was a rather desperate attempt to patch together lots of different sites, all with different underlying architectures and different views of what they were trying to […]
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