Feb

26

Lawyer comment spam

Filed Under Spam, SEO

Denver Personal Injury Lawyer | sharonsmith333@yahoo.com | osullivan-law-firm.com | IP: 72.70.201.98 wrote:
I really enjoyed your post. I will have to come back again to read some more of them.
Dear Sharon
I’m so pleased you not only visited my blog but took the time and trouble to comment so incisively. I’m sure all my readers are […]

By Nick Holmes, 26 February 2009

Feb

25

The end of print?

Filed Under Law publishing

We’ve been here before and each time the answer is no. There’s too much in favour of print to bury it prematurely.
However, we know that particular types of print are under severe threat. The continuing decline of newsprint in particular is well documented.
But what of legal publications? Law journals, particularly the scholarly, look set for […]

By Nick Holmes, 25 February 2009

Feb

20

Chain Matrix 2

Filed Under eConveyancing

Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams. - The Matrix Reloaded [aka 2]
Back in the real world Land Registry is offering to support […]

By Nick Holmes, 20 February 2009

Feb

18

Your blog is your brand

Filed Under Blogging

In two recent posts Kevin O’Keefe follow-ups on why a law blog does not belong inside your law firm website, on which I’ve already commented.
He confirms his view, concerns about maintaining the law firm’s brand notwithstanding:
A brand for a good lawyer is not about design, collars, logo’s and the like. If lawyers known as authorities […]

By Nick Holmes, 18 February 2009

Feb

12

Twitter as a feed aggregator

Filed Under Twitter

A couple of months back OPSI set up a Twitter account for @legislation, feeding it with the OPSI new legislation feeds. That will reach out to a wider audience than the feeds themselves, but I wonder what that wider audience will make of it. Evidence is as yet scant (samples: “Wow, this is cool - […]

By Nick Holmes, 12 February 2009

Feb

11

Valuing complexity

Filed Under Document automation

Thanks to Prism Legal for pointing to an analysis that gives the lie to the assertion that complex legal documents cannot be “packaged” (if not “commoditised”).
KIIAC are specialists who “create standard templates with clause alternatives for high quality, rapid document drafting”:
As part of our work to create document templates automatically, quantify differences among like documents, […]

By Nick Holmes, 11 February 2009

Feb

11

Reformation

Filed Under Future of law

Deep thought (as ever) from Jordan Furlong at Law21 on the future of lawyers a la Susskind. He concludes:
If we take another meaning of “end” ­– an outcome worked toward or an objective for which effort is expended, rather than the more popular meaning of “disappearance” — then we could say that this is a […]

By Nick Holmes, 11 February 2009

Feb

5

Brainstorm on web law at LawCampLeeds

Filed Under Law 2.0

Jane Lambert of NIPC (also NIPC Law and @nipclaw) is organising LawCampLeeds on 7 April, which will address practical solutions to legal problems presented by development and use of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies. I’m sure all you IP/IT lawyers will benefit. Good luck Jane.

By Nick Holmes, 5 February 2009

Feb

4

#legalitshow anyone?

Filed Under Twitter

Those like me who are experimenting with Twitter Search should find this post by Steven Feldman of interest. He describes how the hashtag #uksnow evolved from a simple hashtag to one which, with the addition of postcode and snowfall parameters (eg #uksnow SW14 2/10), provided a crowdsourced realtime report of snowfall throughout the UK, which […]

By Nick Holmes, 4 February 2009

Feb

2

Pirates, criminals or would-be honest consumers?

Filed Under DRM, Copyright

The SCL has published 11 articles arising from its forum entitled ‘Legislating for Web 2.0 – Preparing for the Communications Act?’. I was rather taken with Andrew Adams and Ian Brown’s presentation on the futility of seeking technological solutions to enforcing copyright, entitled Keep Looking: The Answer to the Machine is Elsewhere, from which:
On keeping […]

By Nick Holmes, 2 February 2009