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Providing free legal advice
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, April 2001 The culture of the internet is such that expectations are that most information is free. But these expectations also extend beyond information to just about anything that can be delivered over the internet: including advice, documents, software to name but a few. But […]
Government portals | Web design sins
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, March 2001 Government portals Last month’s review of UK legal portals would not be complete without covering government sites. While designed for the citizen rather than the lawyer, government portals provide access to so much information vital to lawyering that they are an essential legal […]
Getting the most from the Web (III): staking your claim
Published in P.S., the journal of Probate Section, March 2001 Parts of this article also appeared in previous Pages on the Web in the Solicitors Journal There are now well over 1,000 firms of solicitors in England and Wales with websites and an increasing number of other legal advice sites competing for your business. It […]
UK legal portals
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, February 2001 The following are some of the better sites whose primary purpose is to facilitate access to resources on the internet for the UK lawyer. Commercial sites Access to Law (www.a2law.com) From Go Interactive and the Inner Temple Library, in association with Oyez Straker. […]
Is e-commerce working?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, January 2001 The new millennium kicked off, as the old had ended, in a wave of optimism for internet business. Many bright ideas were transformed into business plans sufficiently credible to separate gullible investors from their money. Of course the party could not last and […]
Meta Data Proposals for Legal Advice Sites
First published on infolaw, December 2000 infolaw welcomes the proposals by the Community Legal Service for the promotion of a common meta data standard for websites developed by organisations in the legal and advice sectors. Meta data (data about data) is a formal means of describing the content of documents – in this case web […]
The truth about hits (and misses)
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, November 2000 I hope I will be forgiven for this month straying into territory that some may regard as too technical. Web usage statistics cannot be used to make any inferences about the number of people who have read pages on a site or even […]
Getting the most from the Web (II): be a web detective
Published in P.S., the journal of Probate Section, October 2000 The websites of relevant associations usually provide a good jumping off point for practitioners. However, for the probate practitioner, at present these sites disappoint: the Probate Section site at www.probatesection.org.uk currently has little in the way of content and no useful links (let’s hope this […]
Where do you rank?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, September 2000 So you’ve enthusiastically entered the new age: at some cost in time and effort and no doubt hard cash producing a website to promote and deliver your services. But no-one is visiting. What can be done? Traditional advertising The quickest and most effective […]
What’s in a name?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, August 2000 The commercialisation of the web continues at ever increasing pace. The legal market in particular has seen a plethora of new online businesses set up in the last six months. The issue of branding is all-important: dozens of operations have set up branded […]
Civil Procedure Rules OK?
Published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, July 2000 A comparative review of the various CPR products and services by Nick Holmes The introduction last year of a completely new code of procedure for the civil courts prompted the publication of a number of new practice manuals from the law publishers. Whereas previously Sweet & […]
E-commerce for the panicked
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, June 2000 It is now widely stated that firms who do not have an e-commerce capability will soon be out of business. The internet is all-pervasive and while it may not yet have taken as firm a hold on the provision of legal services as […]
Getting the most from the Web (I): a jump start
Published in P.S., the journal of Probate Section, June 2000 Part of this article originally appeared in the Solicitors Journal, February 2000 Most organisations of any size now have websites. Indeed it is frequently the case that an organisation’s web address is the most prominent (and sometimes the only) form of address appearing in its […]
The web-wise at LegalTech London
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, May 2000 LegalTech London (www.legaltechshow.com/london/) is the new incarnation of the annual Summer lawtech show at the Barbican centre in London, now under new management. With around half last year’s number of exhibitors, this year’s show, on 17 and 18 May, had an air of […]
Whom do they serve?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, April 2000 There is a plethora of ‘umbrella’ websites aiming to service the general public seeking legal advice. Typically the commercial sites include a directory of solicitors and some basic information on legal rights. Solicitors pay to be listed in the hope that they will […]
