Year: 2015
We need to stop talking about AI
My latest post for Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Image: By Saad Faruque on Flickr.
Internet made easy
20 years ago I wrote my first “Page on the Web” column in the Solicitors Journal with a piece about why you should use the internet. My service provider at the time was Demon Internet. They still are! Thanks Demon.
Is ad blocking unfair?
My latest post for Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Image: Stop! by Axel Schwenke on Flickr.
LinkedIn: know your connections
Commentators on the Proudman–Carter-Silk affair have understandably criticised one or other, or both, parties’ behaviour. But I’m more interested in the role LinkedIn played in this. After all, this only came about because Ms Proudman sent an invitation to connect on LinkedIn to someone she did not know and whose line of legal work was […]
The Uberisation of law
My latest article in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers gives some perspectives on the sharing economy and how it affects lawyers. Image: Taxi clown by John Fisher on Flickr.
Social media platforms for lawyers
Reblogged from Legal Web Watch March 2015. I’ve been looking at two new social media platforms designed for lawyers: Mootis (“specifically tailored for what is a vast legal services marketplace that extends far beyond the Bar”) and Passle (“enables Partners and senior professionals to create and share insights on developments within their field”). I’ve registered […]
Where has all the GOV stuff gone?
Reblogged from Legal Web Watch January 2015 Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox, first mooted the idea of a single government website back in 2010. Some thought the theory was sound but that delivery would be impossible. Once the project was approved, the process of transitioning government information to GOV.UK began in 2012, led by the […]
