Nov
30
Who goes to the top? - you decide
Filed Under Law publishers, Blogging
The ABA Journal Blawg 100 are “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.”
Kevin O’Keefe reacts to this with a star post Law Blog vanity contests : ABA adds to the silliness:
to get sucked into believing a contest like the ABA Journal’s 100 best lawyer […]
By Nick Holmes, 30 November 2007
Nov
30
An optimal copyright term
Filed Under Copyright, Free culture
Victor Keegan in How long should copyright last? covers the arguments for a shorter copyright term in the digital age.
To exemplfy the absurdity of a strict application of copyrights, he points to Nate Andersen who reports that John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, totted up all the infringements he might have […]
By Nick Holmes, 30 November 2007
Nov
28
Susskind 2.0 digested (6)
Filed Under Future of law
In the last Times extract from The End of Lawyers? Richard Susskind answers his critics. There are those that argue that “computers cannot replace legal work. Full stop.” and others who believe that IT will have no or minimal effect on lawyers. To which the reply is:
Open-minded lawyers, and those who genuinely care about the […]
By Nick Holmes, 28 November 2007
Nov
28
Defining the semantic web
Filed Under Semantic web, Social networking
In 1999 Tim Berners-Lee had a dream for what he called the “semantic web“, in which computers
become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms […]
By Nick Holmes, 28 November 2007
Nov
20
2008 - the year of the wiki?
Filed Under Law publishers
Mark Chillingworth, writing in Information World Review, posts a summary of the Information Industry Outlook 2008 report from analyst Outsell.
STM and legal information providers will achieve growth of $20.9bn between 2007 and 2010 … before experiencing a gradual slowdown. Growth in the sector will be driven not so much by the information, as its integration […]
By Nick Holmes, 20 November 2007
Nov
20
Susskind 2.0 digested (5)
Filed Under Law publishers, Future of law
From the fifth Times extract from The End of Lawyers?
No-one who might be thought to be in the driving seat of the legal system [not law schools, nor legal academics, nor the professional bodies, nor the UK Government, nor the Law Commission] is thinking systematically, rigorously and in a sustained way about the long term […]
By Nick Holmes, 20 November 2007
Nov
16
Taking stock of docstoc
Filed Under Forms and precedents
I’ve spent some time browsing around on docstoc, a sort of YouTube for “professional” documents which has just launched in public beta. (Hat tip: Bob Ambrogi)
docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents. Find a vast quantity of high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents for free. docstoc allows users to […]
By Nick Holmes, 16 November 2007
Nov
16
Susskind 2.0 digested (4)
Filed Under Future of law
Richard Susskind takes a while to get to his point in the latest extract from his forthcoming book The End of Lawyers?:
The major firms may feel they are beyond the scope of commoditisation and systematisation and that, on bet-the-ranch deals and disputes the legal fees represent but pocket change in the grand scheme. But this […]
By Nick Holmes, 16 November 2007
Nov
13
Jumping ship? Sound the last post
Filed Under Blogging
Scott Vine, the Informationoverlord, has a smart new Wordpress blog. He uses a stylish theme and a rather fetching graphic for his RSS feed. Although the blog remains at the same address, the feed has a new URL.
What Scott did right is that he posted a final “moving on” item on his old Blogger blog […]
By Nick Holmes, 13 November 2007
Nov
8
What’s a “legal” search?
Filed Under Search
A couple of big players have recently come out with new “legal” search engines (for the US market).
There is Westlaw’s WebPlus which, “through a combination, it seems, of editorial selection of sites or domains and an algorithm the engine offers to fetch you from the web a better selection of legally interesting results than a […]
By Nick Holmes, 8 November 2007
