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The Legal Internet

A Series of Publications for Training Purposes
and for Keeping Up To Date
by Delia Venables

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Beginners' Guide to the Internet for Lawyers - 8 hours CPD - now in a November 2007 edition...
Everything you need to get started on the Internet from a lawyers point of view.
Qualifies for 8 hours CPD from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.
Tutorial material is here but you need the password to access this.
First Set of Advanced Internet Studies for Lawyers 5 hours CPD - latest edition is February 2007
Five Internet Studies for experienced internet users exploring topics with legal relevance.
Qualifies for 5 hours CPD from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.
Tutorial material is here but you need the password for this.
Second Set of Advanced Internet Studies for Lawyers 5 hours CPD - latest edition is May 2007
A Second Set of Five Internet Studies for experienced internet users.
Qualifies for 5 hours CPD from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.
Note that the First and Second Sets cover different topics and that they can be taken in either order.
Special Offer! If both sets of Advanced Studies are bought together, the cost is greatly reduced.
Tutorial material is here but you need the password for this.
Internet Newsletter for Lawyers & Law 2.0 and how to subscribe
The May/June 2008 issue is now available and there is a Special Summer Offer!
The Newsletter provides an up to date overview of "what is important for lawyers on the web". It covers the legal resources available on the web (for free or on a subscription basis) and what lawyers are doing themselves on the web - marketing themselves from their web sites, selling legal services online and just improving their existing services to clients by use of the internet. It covers Law 2.0 (how Web 2.0 affects the Law) and explains how lawyers can get ahead of the game with these new developments. It is a very practical "how to do it" sort of newsletter - and very useful.
  • Past "Best Legal Journal" (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) and
  • Past "Best Legal Journal in a Digital Format" (In Brief "LOTIES" awards).
  • Now available....
    question mark on a network Legal Web 2007/2008: Topics for Barristers - a new e-book with CPD by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables.
    You can gain 5 CPD hours from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.

    The course looks at how the modern chambers is developing in response to IT and particularly the Internet. It looks at the communications, software and IT which is now available for chambers, how IT is changing the way that a modern chambers is managed, how websites are being used for marketing purposes, how chambers and individual barristers are providing legal resources online and how the chambers library is evolving in response to new opportunities and new problems.
    Now available......
    question mark on a network Legal Web 2007/2008: Legal Information and Web 2.0 - a new e-book with CPD by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables.
    You can gain 5 CPD hours from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.

    This e-book covers legal information on the web and the developments that are shaping the way it is accessed and used. It looks at the principle sources of free law on the web for the UK and also for Europe and beyond. It then considers the topic of “Web 2.0” — the participatory web. What is it and what relevance does it have for lawyers? Finally, the e-book looks at the subject of public sector information: how it is “opening up” to public access and re-use and how the foundations are being laid for “Gov 2.0”.
    This course is no longer being sold, but people who have bought the course can continue to use the materials and obtain the CPD
    question mark on a network Changing Practice for Barristers - an e-book with CPD by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables.
    You can gain 5 CPD hours from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.

    The course looks at how the modern chambers is developing in response to IT and particularly the Internet. It looks at the communications, software and IT which is now available for chambers, how IT is changing the way that a modern chambers is managed, how websites are being used for marketing purposes, how chambers and individual barristers are providing legal resources online and how the chambers library is evolving in response to new opportunities and new problems.
    This course is no longer being sold, but people who have bought the course can continue to use the materials and obtain the CPD
    question mark on a network Web Tools for Lawyers - an e-book with CPD by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables.
    You can gain 5 CPD hours from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.

    An introduction for lawyers to key current web publishing services: why they are important for lawyers and how these services can help them in using the web and in marketing their practice. It covers blogs for lawyers - what blogs are and how you use them; how to create your own blog and how to do it effectively; all about syndication and web feeds; how to ensure that your web site is "friendly" to the search engines; and whether (and how) to use search engines for paid advertising.
    This course is no longer being sold, but people who have bought the course can continue to use the materials and obtain the CPD
    question mark on a network Whither the Legal Web? - an e-book with CPD by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables, published in two parts, with 5 CPD hours for each part from The Law Society of England & Wales and The Bar Council.

  • Part 1 covers the public provision of law on the web and ongoing initiatives to improve it: BAILII and the Statute Law Database, EU Law and the Europa site, the UK Parliament, e-Government, access to justice, devolved parliaments and legislation, FOI and public sector information, how legal publishing is developing and new technologies for accessing legal information on the web such as law blogs, webfeeds and wikis.

  • Part 2 covers the way that the web affects Legal Practice. The opening article, by Charles Christian, is on the transformation of communication. This is followed by articles on managing email, electronic signatures, a virtual law firm, a virtual chambers, practice developments made possible by the internet, e-government, harnessing web resources for knowledge management, web marketing for law firms, web marketing for chambers, selling legal services online (including for the corporate client), new risks, e-conveyancing and pro bono on the web. Each section is written by an expert in the field concerned.

    Overall, the e-book covers the 'state of the art' of the legal web, both now and in the next few years, presented in practical and straightforward terms. The method of publishing is also part of the message, since the authors believe that electronic publishing is a fast growing field and will come to vie with printed publication in the years to come.
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