Copy theft is rife on the web. There’s so much of it, you have to be selective about what you lose sleep over. Let’s leave aside substantial, deliberate infringements for the time being and look at the lazy copier. You know the type: Wish I’d written that page/constructed that set of links. I’ll just grab […]
Dan Hull’s What about Clients? blog now includes a catalogue of non-US legal weblogs from or about the West andAsia. Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are next. We’ll keep building on this — just as my own firm has built an international practice over the past 10 years. The idea here is to […]
Society Guardian on howSusskind has approvedthe Guardian’s Free Our Data Campaign: The British government owns one of the world’s most valuable collections of intellectual property. Government policy on what it should do with this information is muddled. On one hand, it encourages free access, for example to historic census returns. On the other hand, agencies […]
Lotus 123 was, to my mind, the best of the first killer apps: better than space invaders and the word processor. You could tabulate data and construct elaborate formulae to produce whatever result you wanted! That delight is now enabled by Excel. On behalf of the family judiciary I’ve been having a go with maintenance […]
The FT reports talks between MySpace and Google/Microsoft who are keen to capture more of the youth market. The rapid growth of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has threatened to tip the balance of power on the internet away from traditional portals and search engines. Their potential to become the places where […]
Thanks to Robert Ambrogi for pointing me to two nascent, but nevertheless significant, new US sites: Wiki-Law‘s mission is “to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide legal guide and resource”. Unlike most wikis I’ve seen, this is not an encyclopedia but a highly-structured resource, with page templates for entries on Blogs, Links, Dictionary […]
I’ve recently added a Blogs section to infolaw Lawfinder, cataloguing all UK law and related blogs, plus a few overseas sites of direct relevance. Still no surge of interest in blogging here. Also added is the Feeds section, cataloguing all UK law and related feeds anddisplaying the latest 10 headlines. Many law feeds have come […]
The Webby Awards are the equivalent of the Oscars for websites, honouring excellence in web design, creativity, usability and functionality. They are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. This year the Academy’s award in the Law category has gone to Justice Learning, which describes itself as “an innovative, issue-based approach for […]
Kieran Flatt, writing in Legal IT, believes that there are only five law firms in the UK that have demonstrated any serious long-term commitment to developing online businesses: Linklaters (Blue Flag) Berwin Leighton Paisner (BeProfessional) Eversheds Allen & Overy (NewChange) Addleshaw Goddard Pinsent Masons’ OUT-LAW.com service is not on his list as it is a […]
National, theofficial periodical of the Canadian Bar Association has produce anA to Z: 26 trends for the legal profession. The legal profession is turning upside down, and many of the familiar landmarks are disappearing or being replaced by brand-new structures. There are so many changes afoot that National’s editorial team could match each letter of […]
Contributors to The Times have recently started blogging in numbers. TheTimesOnline Law Weblog is authored by Edward Fennell, Gary Slapper, Mark Stephens, Alex Wade and friends, while the Law section continues to offer legal news and comment in parallel. Such a dichotomy is not uncommon on news sites at present. The blogs allow less formal […]
First published September 2005 in Whither the Legal Web?. This abridged version published January 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. For the largest law firms the provision of online legal services is an imperative but few, if any, of these services are sold to clients directly off the page. The focus is rather on […]
First published May 2006 in in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The so-called blogosphere (the world of blogs) now occupies the position that the web itself did 10 years ago. Hands up those who, in 1996, did not appreciate the significance of the web? So now with blogs – you can’t afford to ignore them. […]
The recent accessions page on BAILII shows that a number of leading judgments from the 17th century onwards have recently been added. These are the first fruits of the BAILII/JISC Open Law project which aims to identify significant older judgments to which reference is regularly needed in legal education. JISC is the Joint Information Systems […]
