Finally another law blog from practising UK lawyers. Naked Law is written by members of Mills & Reeve’s Technology Team, based in Cambridge, about the latest UK legal/regulatory developments affecting the IT and other hi-tech industries, including procurement and outsourcing, exploitation and protection of intellectual property, privacy and data protection, e-commerce and distance selling, and […]

By Nick Holmes, 29 July 2005

The ABA Law Practice Management Section leads its July/August issue with five feature articles on law blogging:

It’s Not Your Father’s Web Site: Lawyers in the Blogosphere (how blogs differ from traditional websites)
Ethics and Lawyer Blogs
How to Start Your Own Weblog And Make the Most of It
The Future of Legal Blogging (a discussion from the Between […]

By Nick Holmes, 25 July 2005

Eversheds employment team has developed an online service designed for human resource professionals in large organisations that automates the process of drafting employment documents. See this walk-through demo of HR Contract Builder. The service uses the DealBuilder document automation system from Business Integrity.
Joy London cites these other DealBuilder legal applications: Linklaters (BlueFlag), Microsoft (software license […]

By Nick Holmes, 25 July 2005

Casting around for something new on the legal web, I recently came across the claim that www.civilappeals.gov.uk is “a new website”. It is no such thing! civilappeals.gov.uk is a new domain whose www points you to www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/civilappeals.htm - a page on HM Courts Service website with no separate identity. Whatever the merit of the new […]

By Nick Holmes, 18 July 2005