May
26
Dan Hull’s What about Clients? blog now includes a catalogue of non-US legal weblogs from or about the West and Asia. Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are next.
We’ll keep building on this — just as my own firm has built an international practice over the past 10 years. The idea here is to catalogue […]
By Nick Holmes, 26 May 2006
May
26
Society Guardian on how Susskind has approved the Guardian’s Free Our Data Campaign:
The British government owns one of the world’s most valuable collections of intellectual property. Government policy on what it should do with this information is muddled. On one hand, it encourages free access, for example to historic census returns. On the other hand, agencies holding […]
By Nick Holmes, 26 May 2006
May
24
The Ms have it
Filed Under Miscellany, Fun
Lotus 123 was, to my mind, the best of the first killer apps: better than space invaders and the word processor. You could tabulate data and construct elaborate formulae to produce whatever result you wanted! That delight is now enabled by Excel.
On behalf of the family judiciary I’ve been having a go with maintenance awards […]
By Nick Holmes, 24 May 2006
May
24
The FT reports talks between MySpace and Google/Microsoft who are keen to capture more of the youth market.
The rapid growth of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has threatened to tip the balance of power on the internet away from traditional portals and search engines.
Their potential to become the places where many young […]
By Nick Holmes, 24 May 2006
May
19
Thanks to Robert Ambrogi for pointing me to two nascent, but nevertheless significant, new US sites:
Wiki-Law’s mission is “to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide legal guide and resource”. Unlike most wikis I’ve seen, this is not an encyclopedia but a highly-structured resource, with page templates for entries on Blogs, Links, Dictionary terms, […]
By Nick Holmes, 19 May 2006
May
19
I’ve recently added a Blogs section to infolaw Lawfinder, cataloguing all UK law and related blogs, plus a few overseas sites of direct relevance. Still no surge of interest in blogging here.
Also added is the Feeds section, cataloguing all UK law and related feeds and displaying the latest 10 headlines. Many law feeds have come online […]
By Nick Holmes, 19 May 2006
May
12
What is law?
Filed Under Law sites
The Webby Awards are the equivalent of the Oscars for websites, honouring excellence in web design, creativity, usability and functionality. They are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
This year the Academy’s award in the Law category has gone to Justice Learning, which describes itself as “an innovative, issue-based approach for engaging […]
By Nick Holmes, 12 May 2006
May
11
Kieran Flatt, writing in Legal IT, believes that there are only five law firms in the UK that have demonstrated any serious long-term commitment to developing online businesses:
Linklaters (Blue Flag)
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BeProfessional)
Eversheds
Allen & Overy (NewChange)
Addleshaw Goddard
Pinsent Masons’ OUT-LAW.com service is not on his list as it is a free service and he does not […]
By Nick Holmes, 11 May 2006
May
11
26 trends for the legal profession
Filed Under Legal practice
National, the official periodical of the Canadian Bar Association has produce an A to Z: 26 trends for the legal profession.
The legal profession is turning upside down, and many of the familiar landmarks are disappearing or being replaced by brand-new structures. There are so many changes afoot that National’s editorial team could match each letter of the […]
By Nick Holmes, 11 May 2006
May
10
UKBlawgers
Filed Under Law blogs
UKBlawgers is a new blog by Steve Butler who writes the UKLawyers newswire.
By Nick Holmes, 10 May 2006
