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Dec
31
2009
Filed Under Outsourcing, Future of law
I usually leave it until the last minute to frame my “binary law” predictions for the year ahead. After all, a lot can happen in a month and it’s of course helpful to have the benefit of everyone else’s predictions first!
In the SCL IT & law predictions for 2009 (batch 1, batch 2, batch 3) […]
By Nick Holmes, 31 December 2008
Dec
30
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Filed Under Future of law
I recently commented far too favourably on the the new Law Society Gazette site. There is no way to browse the archives which is frustrating. But to give the site some juice, the opinion sections in particular should be inviting our comments.
I’d have liked, for example, to respond to Clive Wismayer, Solicitor, Great Bookham, who […]
By Nick Holmes, 30 December 2008
Dec
17
Twitter redux
Filed Under Twitter
In Twitter, the good the bad and the ugly James Mullan poses some of the questions many have in understanding - and extracting - the value of Twitter.
Perhaps I should … lower my expectations of what value I’m actually going to derive from Twitter. It is after all a Social Networking for individuals not for […]
By Nick Holmes, 17 December 2008
Dec
12
What about clients?
Filed Under Future of law
In a series of recent posts, Jordan Furlong gives his slant on the arguments at the heart of Richard Susskind’s thesis:
Decoupling price from cost in legal services:
In order to turn a profit, firms will be forced to streamline their costs of production, whatever they might be.
The market doesn’t care
clients don’t care if you make money […]
By Nick Holmes, 12 December 2008
Dec
12
Barristers’ CPD - don’t panic
Filed Under CPD
In his inimitable style Geeklawyer trashes the need for CPD for barristers: “let’s bin the **** rubbish”.
That pending, he recommends using a cheap online CPD provider. I couldn’t agree more. By far the best value in town are the two current Legal Web ebooks with CPD which Delia Venables and I have compiled: each is […]
By Nick Holmes, 12 December 2008
Dec
10
The future of lawyers
Filed Under Future of law
I have not yet found on the public access web anything approaching a review of Richard Susskind’s The End of Lawyers? (Oxford University Press). So I must conclude I’m one of the few who have actually read it from cover to cover. To say I’ve read it is a bit of an exaggeration; I confess […]
By Nick Holmes, 10 December 2008
Dec
3
The good people at AustLII have been working on a citator for common law cases and the fruits of their labours can now be checked out at LawCite (Alpha).
LawCite is an international case citator and is the first product of a 3 year Australian Research Council funded project to research into automated systems for citation […]
By Nick Holmes, 3 December 2008
Nov
25
Law publishing at the crossroads
Filed Under Articles, Law publishing
First Published in the Solicitors Journal, November 2008. Also published in Legal Information Management Vol 9 No 3 2009.
In the current climate of increasingly rapid technological change and upheavals in the legal profession, are law firms’ legal information needs being adequately met by law publishers? And what does the future hold, particularly as we descend […]
By Nick Holmes, 25 November 2008
Nov
7
Hard times?
Filed Under Legal practice
A personal opinion from a “usually tetchy but recently quite chipper old buzzard” on how the recession is affecting the legal world:
Personal Injury - times have never been better
Housing Law - good times!
Divorce - quiet time of year, but come January, credit crunch or no, its open season
Wills and Probate - dead as a dodo
Employment […]
By Nick Holmes, 7 November 2008
Nov
7
Must have been asleep or too busy these last few months to notice that the Law Society Gazette has morphed into a wonderful site:
Online the Gazette is as radically changed [as the print edition], with all sections of the magazine represented. Most importantly, each area of Gazette coverage is now easily accessible - we have […]
By Nick Holmes, 7 November 2008