Year: 2012

Lord Neuberger on access to judgments

On 20 November Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, delivered the First Annual BAILII Lecture, entitled No Judgment – No Justice (PDF) in which he dealt with three important aspects of improving access to justice through improved access to judgments: their clarity, free dissemination and enhancement. His intro para is worth quoting here in […]

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Why is everyone talking about content marketing?

It’s likely you’ve heard a lot of talk recently about “content marketing”. What’s that? You might turn to Wikipedia for an explanation: Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly defined and understood current and potential consumer […]

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Socially useless

A recent story/scandal I keep being drawn back to is that of Grant Shapps, Tory party co-chairman, former housing minister and former (result!) web enrepreneur and marketing guru, aka Michael Green, now, vicariously, aka Sebastian Fox. I’m quite happy to acknowledge that making millions from his [wife’s] web businesses qualifies him/her as a successful entrepreneur. […]

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Wall of shame – vacuous and inaccurate free legal content

Nearly Legal has a beef about sub-standard “free legal content”. I’m with him. In Part 1 he looks at two services who peddle useless “legal” information for their own gain for SEO purposes. His exemplars are firstly Forward3D, an SEO agent for Irwin Mitchell, who wonder if he might “be interested in sharing some unique […]

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Wall of shame – some comments I have trashed

You really should check what your SEO company are doing for you. A new comment on the post “Google+ thoughts so far” is waiting for your approval https://www.binarylaw.co.uk/index.php/2011/07/18/google-thoughts-so-far/ Author : Solicitors Stockport (IP: 80.2.150.21 , cpc1-stkp8-2-0-cust532.10-2.cable.virginmedia.com) E-mail : mortons@binkmail.com URL    : http://www.mortons-solicitors.co.uk Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=80.2.150.21 Comment: I like Google Plus.  Its definately having an […]

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Data protection intrigue

I was intrigued to see that DLA Piper has just published Data Protection Laws of the World. This 274-page PDF handbook “offers a high-level snapshot of national data protection laws as they currently stand in 58 jurisdictions across the world. It provides a quick overview of the aspects of data protection law that are often […]

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Scooping up work online with the “long tail”

I received a Press Release today. Normally these go straight in the bin, but this one grabbed my attention as it was good advice and the accompanying Top 10 SEO tips are spot on. Research carried out by digital marketing specialists Add People for leading Manchester PR agency RMS shows that law firms are more […]

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The search engines will find you

By far the best advice I have seen recently on SEO for law firms (well for anyone really) comes from North American legal web gurus Steve Matthews of Stem Legal and Robert Ambrogi in their article Optimizing Your Online Shingle: On-Page and Off-Page Best Practices published in the ABA’s Law Practice Magazine last summer. The […]

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