Author: Nick Holmes
Nick Holmes is Editor of this Newsletter. He is a publishing consultant specialising in the legal sector and is Managing Director of legal web services company infolaw Limited. Email nickholmes@infolaw.co.uk. Twitter @nickholmes.
Legal Web Watch April 2016: Never mind the quantity
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch April 2016. Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. We all know the term “clickbait”: content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose main purpose is to […]
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What is the blockchain?
A blockchain is literally a chain of blocks of data recording transactions, connected using digital, cryptographic signatures. Confusingly, blockchain technology is often referred to simply as “Blockchain” (with cap B) or as “the blockchain” (with the definite article prepended). No doubt this usage stems from its initially unique and most widely-known application as the technology […]
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Writing out loud
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch February 2016. Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. David Allen Green, aka Jack of Kent, has been writing in the Solicitors Journal about The revival of legal blogging: […]
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Working with documents (you found on the internet)
In the connected world, with a multitude of options for consuming and publishing information, we’ve become accustomed to re-using content produced by others to produce or supplement our own current documents. This content may originate in Word documents or PDFs or as web pages; and we may want to publish or distribute our output as […]
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We need to stop talking about AI
In a controversial 2003 article in the Harvard Business Review and a follow-up book with the same title, technology writer Nicholas Carr asked “Does IT Matter?” IT had become a commodity input; it had lost its mystique; it had become normal. Time was when the wheel was technology. But as the wheel was refined and […]
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Typography for Lawyers
Typography for Lawyers by Matthew Butterick is now in its second edition. With this book the author – a typographer turned lawyer – has performed a service for lawyers that no-one else has done for other professions. Go on, Google “typography for” and see what you come up with. You have to be a lawyer […]
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The Future of the Professions
Twenty years after publication of The Future of Law, Richard Susskind has returned, with his son Daniel this time, to consider The Future of the Professions (OUP). The Susskinds claim: “We are facing greater disruption and transformation in the next two decades than we have had in the past century”; and “We find it hard […]
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Back to the Future of Law
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch late October 2015. Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. An updated version has now been published in the November Newsletter. Image: Big Data Analytics by Jim Kaskade on […]
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Is ad blocking unfair?
This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch October 2015. Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Ad blocking has been much discussed recently, particularly since Apple allowed apps with ad blocking capabilities to operate with Safari […]
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Sharing, caring and re-intermediating
Susan Mclean has written an excellent article in the May issue of Computers & Law on The Rise of the Sharing Economy, its challenges and the legal issues concerned. I’d recommend you read it! The purpose of this article is to point to some useful further resources and alternative perspectives that may help in our […]
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Legal Web Watch: CPD/competence special
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Changes to CPD for solicitors All solicitors should by now be aware that changes are afoot with CPD! But there is no need to panic as we are now within […]
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The Internet of Things: an introduction
The Internet of Things (IoT) is, literally, the network of all the physical things connected to the internet. (Generally we now refer to things capable of connecting to the internet as “smart” things.) We started with just computer terminals connected to the internet and that remained the way it was for 15 years or so. […]
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