This is a really significant resource
Current Awareness from the Inner Temple Library
provides up-to-date information regarding new case law, changes in legislation, and legal news,
which Library Staff think will be of interest to lawyers practising in England and Wales. The content is selected and updated daily
by information professionals from the Inner Temple Library in London. There are many entries on just
about every day. This is a major current awareness resource, set up as a blog, so you can subscribe with RSS and get
alerts every day. You can also receive "normal" email alerts, follow the blog on Twitter, get the Widget or
follow on Facebook.
(The Inner Temple Library is one of the four Inns of Court Libraries, which serve barristers, judges and bar
students in England and Wales.)
Directgov is the overall public-facing Governnment site. The Newsroom section (see top list of options on the home page) provides a selection of citizen-friendly press release and information in various forms.
The Central Office of Information (COI) provides all the government's press releases, organised by Department and by date.
The Law Society site provides much current and topical information about the sections and work of the Society, including press releases, consultations, proposals and general news. There is a useful set of links to legal resources on the web.
The Law Society Gazette provides the normal legal news and also a "breaking news" section with the latest news. You can also personalise the site to provide you with selected information each time you log on. The Gazette's Law Reports are available on the site.
The Lawyer provides daily news as well as the full content of each week's issue. There is also an archive of 5 years' past material which can be searched in several different ways.
Solicitors Journal has current news. There are several stories most days. Accessing, browsing and searching the news section is free of charge and there is no need even to "register". All the content of the latest issue, including in-depth articles and comment, is free of charge for seven days. After that, the archive search (which goes back to 2003) is only accessible to Solicitors Journal subscribers as part of the standard subscription. You can register for a regular (free) email newsletter.
Legal Week provides breaking news as well as all the main news stories from the printed journal. There is a 2 years' archive. There is a major jobs section with 1,500 jobs.
Legal Technology Insider, the newsletter edited by Charles Christian, provides a news service on the site, as well as access to archives of past issues of the newsletter and the Legal Technology Insider "Newswire".
Linex Legal works with over 1000 law firms and government organisations around the world to make their content available to subscribers through an email alerter service and an online searchable archive. In other words, it checks all these sites regularly and extracts and summarises the material likely to be of use to others. Email Alerts are available for the UK, and 8 other locations world wide. There are also specialized Email Alerts relating to International Arbitration, Product Liability, Employment Law, Property and Construction Law, and European Competition Law.
Mondaq is a provider of free legal and professional articles online. The sections "UK Briefing", "International Briefing" and "Offshore Briefing" categorise information on the legislative and regulatory framework affecting business and investment in the UK and European Union, Eastern Europe, North America, South-East Asia & China, Africa and the Middle East and major offshore centres. Mondaq also provides these articles to Dow Jones, Reuters, Datastar, Lexis Nexis, WestLaw and FT Profile. Mondaq Professional Surveys provide details of peer-nominated practitioners around the world. Mondaq has recently formed an alliance with Butterworths Tolley.
Legal Media Group is part of Euromoney Institutional Investor. The groups magazines include International Financial Law Review, International Tax Review and Managing Intellectual Property. The site combines the resources of the groups magazines, expert guides, directories and supplements this with added news, analysis, data and discussion that is only available online.
Legalease, under the name of the International Centre for Commercial Law, offers:
- A large set of Commercial Law Developments under many detailed headings, provided by leading firms like Simmons & Simmons, Allen & Overy, Cameron McKenna.....and many others.
- The Legal 500, the European legal 500, the Asian legal 500, and others. These can be searched by area and by specialisation.
The International Law Office provides commentaries (called Newsletters) under key categories of commercial law (arbitration, banking, commercial property, company and so on) from 300 lawyers around the world. There are also commercial/legal overviews for each country, and a register of 2,000 firms which can be searched by area and by specialisation. There is also a section of news and "deals".
Simmons & Simmons (via their site elexica) offer a series of current awareness emails on the following subjects: Budget 2004, Commercial Contracts, Construction, Corporate, Corporate Recovery, Employment, Environment, EU Diary, Finance Litigation, Financial Services, Global Counsel Handbooks - Japan, Insurance, Intellectual Property, IT & E-commerce, Key UK Legal Developments, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Property, Securities & Derivatives, and Tax.
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