Articles
Recent articles
Most recent articles have also been published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers (INL) which I now co-edit and publish with Delia Venables.
- What makes a good blawg? (Legal Executive Journal, April 2008)
- Web 2.0 for lawyers (INL November 2007)
- The law wiki dream (2) (September 2007)
- Effective blogging (for lawyers) (Axxia Newsletter September 2007)
- Joining the conversation (Axxia Newsletter July 2007)
- Does IT matter? (INL May 2007)
- The Statute Law Database - an update (INL May 2007)
- The law wiki dream (INL March 2007)
- Developments in legal information (INL January 2007)
- Community, democracy and the future of law publishing (INL November 2006)
- The Statute Law Database - finally a reality (INL September 2006)
- Syndication, syndication, syndication (INL July 2006)
- Is blogging good for business? (INL May 2006)
- Search engine optimisation (INL March 2006)
- Servicing the corporate client (INL January 2006)
- The return of browser wars (INL January 2005)
- Five Years of Free Law - the BAILII celebration (Computers and Law, December 2004)
- RSS: How to pull the news that matters (INL May 2004)
- Forms on the Web (INL March 2003)
e-Books
With Delia Venables I produce and publish a series of Legal Web e-books with CPD. The current 2007/2008 e-books are Topics for Barristers and Legal Information and Web 2.0. Previously published were Whither the Legal Web, published in two parts (2005), and Changing Practice for Barristers and Web Tools for Lawyers (2006).
Pages on the web
From December 1995 to February 2002 I had a long spell as the web columnist for the Solicitors Journal, my “Page on the Web” appearing monthly. As you can see, my final fling - an A to Z of the legal web, was cut short when they ditched the column. During that period I wrote a few articles for other journals. Most of these earlier articles are currently on the infolaw site but will be transferred to this site in due course.
- e-Government, e-Justice, e-Conveyancing (February 2002)
- Databases, Directories (January 2002)
- BAILII, Browsers, Building; Civil Procedure, Compliance (November 2001)
- Advertising, Anchors, Arbitration (October 2001)
- In too deep (deep linking) (September 2001)
- Towards more accessible law (September 2001)
- Accessible law? (July 2001)
- e-Government beckons (June 2001)
- Free legal information services (May 2001)
- Providing free legal advice (April 2001)
- Government portals | Web design sins (March 2001)
- UK legal portals (February 2001)
- Getting the most from the Web (III): staking your claim (establishing a web presence) (March 2001)
- Is e-commerce working? (January 2001)
- Meta data proposals for legal advice sites
(December 2000) - The truth about hits (and misses) (November 2000)
- The road to free law (October 2000)
- Where do you rank? (promoting your website) (September 2000)
- Getting the most from the Web (II): be a web detective (probate sites) (October 2000)
- What’s in a name? (new legal businesses) (August 2000)
- CPR Rules OK? (review of CPR products) (July 2000)
- E-commerce for the panicked (June 2000)
- The web-wise at Legal Tech London (May 2000)
- Whom do they serve? (unmbrella legal advice sites) (April 2000)
- Getting the most from the Web (I): a jump start (June 2000)
- The law is almost free (BAILII) (March 2000)
- Developing a search strategy (February 2000)
- Looks good, but how does it feel? (web design) (January 2000)
- Lawyering on the web (for in-house lawyers) (January 2000)
- A walk down the internet High Street (goods and services for lawyers) (November 1999)
- Cases on the web (October 1999)
- Legislation on the web (September 1999)
- Nick Holmes unlocks the gates (portals) (July 1999)
- Finding things on the web (July 1999/October 1998)
- Is the law a can of beans? (commoditisation of legal services) (May 1999)
- Nick Holmes finds the Government promising (electronic government) (April 1999)
- Nick Holmes finds the web in good form (law forms) (March 1999)
- Nick Holmes goes Woolf hunting (Civil Procedure Rules) (February 1999)
- Nick Holmes goes shopping (January 1999)
- Nick Holmes looks back (November 1998)
- Finding things on the web (October 1998)
- Lawyers needed for online services (October 1998)
- Keeping up with lawtech (September 1998)
- Are you on the web? (July 1998)
- The Big Guns are out (June 1998)
- Content is blossoming on the web (May 1998)
- WebWatch October 1997 to March 1998
- Fishing in the well-stocked Lawtel pond (February 1998)
- Tracking down cases galore (January 1998)
- Addressing the web (November 1997)
- Periodically yours – the online law journals (October 1997)
- WebWatch May to September 1997
- Passing Judgment on the Web (September 1997)
- Midsummer Miscellany (June 1997)
- SOLEX97 exhibitors on the web (May 1997)
- What do lawyers want from the Web? (April 1997)
- Online Law / SCL Online (March 1997)
- SCL conference companion (February 1997)
- The Web is illegal – provisional (January 1997)
Researching the Legal Web
By late 1996 the legal world had twigged on to the web and I wrote and edited, with Delia Venables, and typeset Researching the Legal Web: a guide to legal resources on the internet (paperback, published by Butterworths May 1997, 200pp). The second edition published by Butterworths November 1999, 228pp, £45.
1995 and 1996 - the nascent legal web
I did not retain some of my oldest articles in electronic form. Having now scanned them in, I have reformatted a few. More are in preparation.
- Law Publishing without Boundaries (December 1996)
- Nothing but the truth - shattering a few internet myths (June 1995)
- 1995 - Year 1 for Electronic Publishing (May 1995)
