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
Alternative legal services: part 2
How will legal services be delivered in future? In the last issue, we started to look at the delivery methods used by some of the key online providers of legal services who are not solicitors. We heard from Jamie Ross of Lawpack, which not only sells DIY materials themselves, but also supply these materials to […]
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Justis extend Irish reports
Justis are exclusively extending their coverage of the Irish Reports on Justis by 81 years, all the way back to 1838. They also become the first publisher in Ireland to offer the authoritative case reports as printable PDFs replicating original pagination. Sinéad Nà Chúlacháin, Editor of the Irish Reports at the Incorporated Council of Law […]
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Alternative legal services
How will legal services be “delivered” in future years? We start here a two-part series (to be continued in the next issue) looking at the delivery methods used by some of the key online providers and find out how they are planning to develop their services. We start with an article by Jamie Ross of […]
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The ultimately flexible (virtual) law firm
Delia Venables interviews Heather Rose Towcester Family Law Practice specialises in giving legal help and advice across a range of family law issues, in areas including divorce, domestic violence and abuse, children related issues, separation and maintenance. Based in Towcester, Northamptonshire, TFLP is friendly, approachable, professional and exclusively home based, meeting with clients to discuss […]
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Criminal Law Week acquired by Sweet & Maxwell
Sweet & Maxwell (via Thomson Reuters) has acquired leading independent legal publication Criminal Law Week which provides digests of case decisions and new legislation to 15,000 criminal law practitioners. The online version gives access to a database of 12,000 digests of cases, statutes and statutory instruments. There are extensive search tools as well as links […]
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Irish Law Society allows first online CPD
First CPD is a new website for Irish Lawyers providing CPD online. The concept of obtaining CPD online has only just been approved by the Irish Law Society and even now it only allows 2 of the 10 hours requirement to be obtained online. However, Irish independent publisher Bart Daly, who runs First Law, which […]
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Software as a Service – going mainstream in 2008
There are many words and phrases associated with Software as a Service (SaaS), including .net (dot net), hosted services, managed services, web-native, web services, browser based software, remote access software and outsourcing of IT. Whilst coming to the topic from somewhat different angles, all these phrases are really referring to the same central theme – […]
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Eleven years of Internet Law with Graham Smith
We do not generally cover books in the Newsletter but occasionally there are exceptions – and Internet Law and Regulation by Graham Smith and other lawyers at Bird & Bird, now published in its fourth edition, is an exception. Graham has been writing and editing editions of this book for 11 years and is one […]
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Barristers writing blogs
Most legal blogs in the UK are written by solicitors – perhaps this is just because there are more solicitors than barristers or perhaps also there are particular personality traits required to be a blogger! However, there is still a good variety of blogs from barristers available, described below, and probably there will be quite […]
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Law blogs the family way
There are now six blogs on family law in the UK, one from a barrister and five from individual solicitors. All the bloggers obviously love their blogs and have become fascinated by the whole process. Here are brief summaries of the blogs, in no particular order. Divorce Solicitor Blog is a very lively blog from […]
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Virtual chambers – the model for the future?
In the traditional model of a chambers, individual barristers cluster together to share premises, staff and administrative services. With the maturity of the internet, however, and particularly with the advent of cheap and easy broadband, barristers do not have to be physically close to each other in order to share staff and admin. In many […]
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A virtual chambers – BarristerWeb
BarristerWeb was the first virtual chambers, having started around 7 years ago. They describe themselves as a “traditional chambers at internet speed”; they do just about everything which a traditional chambers does, but without a large physical presence. They have a small office for the Chambers Director, Neil Goodman-Smith, the Senior Clerk Andrew Hutchins and […]
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