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 virtual chambers – Clerksroom
This article describes the way that Clerksroom operates. I will be writing a second article for the next issue covering BarristerWeb and, in a third article, I will be looking at other chambers who are incorporating some “virtual chambers” ideas into their more conventional operation – a sort of virtual chambers by stealth. Clerksroom do […]
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Virtual law firms – where we are now
Over the last few months, we have had several virtual law firms writing about their experiences; this article is an attempt to bring it all together and to assess the similarities – and the differences – between the firms. The firms covered and a note of the earlier articles are given at the end of […]
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Outsourcing IT for solicitors
Steven Bradley notes in particular a number of Hosted Chambers Management Systems, Hosted Email Services, Telephony Service Providers, and Online Backup Service Providers. This short note covers some other services used specifically by solicitors. Outsourcing accounts and practice management Solicitors can outsource their accounts and practice management systems thus avoiding the need to buy or […]
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The best web sites from individual barristers offering free (and useful) information
In the e-book with CPD “Changing Practice for Barristers” by Nick Holmes and me, I asked which two of the sites provided by individual barristers the people taking the course (themselves largely barristers) found most useful. Nearly 100 people have now taken this course. Here are the sites I asked them to look at, together […]
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The best chambers websites for free (and useful) information
One of the most significant developments in the provision of legal information online over the last few years is the extensive – free – information now being made available by chambers and individual barristers on their web sites. Their aim may be mainly to prove their expertise but also they just cannot resist making available […]
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