September 2005

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IT and e-commerce webfeeds from OUT-LAW

22 September 2005 in Feeds

At last. OUT-LAW News which tracks the latest legal stories in IT and e-commerce now offers RSS feeds. You can subscribe to All OUT-LAW News (the 20 most recent stories of the last 7 days) or to any of the following topics: Accessibility, Copyright, Data protection, E-commerce, Employment, Financial services, Freedom of Information, Games, Outsourcing, Patents, Security, Trade marks.

OUT-LAW.com is part of Pinsent Masons, an international law firm with a long-standing interest in IT and e-commerce. The site provides free guides, articles and news stories relating to everything from the drawing up of on-line contracts and agreements to issues of taxation and defamation, including sample contracts, checklists and other documents.

CommonLII

13 September 2005 in Legal Information Institutes

The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) is the latest addition to the LII family. Launched on 12 September it provides a central point of access to core legal information from the Commonwealth, with 464 databases from 50 countries.

Whither the Legal Web Part 2

7 September 2005 in CPD, Legal web

Another plug for Whither the Legal Web?, the new e-book compiled and edited by me and Delia Venables, Part 2 of which is published today.

Part 1, available since May, covers Legal Information. Part 2, now available, covers how the web is transforming Legal Practice, with articles on the transformation of communication, managing email, electronic signatures, a virtual law firm, a virtual chambers, internet risk, practice developments made possible by the internet, e-government, harnessing web resources for knowledge management, web marketing for law firms, web marketing for chambers, selling legal services online, e-conveyancing and pro bono on the web – each written by an expert in the field.

What’s up with Daily Law Notes?

1 September 2005 in Cases, Law publishing

ICLR is in the process of morphing its Daily Law Notes service into WLR Daily.

“Welcome to the new look case summary service from ICLR that replaces the Daily Law Notes. The service remains the same; providing free 24 hour access to summaries but in a new easier to use format.”

What this, in fact, appears to provide is somewhat less than the Daily Law Notes service. See for example the July Index. Online summaries are provided for cases that have not gone on to be published as a Weekly Law Report yet. Where they have been reported – no online summary; just an order form for the paper copies.

The Bar gets blogging

1 September 2005 in Law blogs

Geeklawyer is the first UK barrister to blog – on media etc. Good stuff!

NIPCLAW is the blog of John Lambert, barrister of Northern Intellectual Property Chambers, the first and so far only specialist intellectual property and technology chambers outside London. It offers news and comment on English, European and overseas intellectual property, technology, media and entertainment and competition law.

Thanks to Information Overlord for the pointers.