Internet Newsletter for Lawyers
November/December 2001, by Delia Venables

Short Stories

Pupil Barristers Want a Website!

Martin Fisher writes..
The Pupil Barristers Group was constituted in March 2000 and is independently run by and for pupils, a definition which includes those who have secured pupillage and tenants in the first six months of practice. We aim to provide information, support and representation for pupils, regarding pupillage-related issues. We are trying to organise a website, a telephone helpline and an annual survey of pupil's experiences.

Contact PBG, pupilbarristers@hotmail.com.

Irish Parliamentary Debates

From Siobhan Heaney, of Infoconsult (http://www.infoconsult.ie):
The complete archives of Irish Parliamentary Debates are now available on the Irish Government website at http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie. It contains the full text of the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates of the Houses of the Oireachtas Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann as published by the Stationery Office in bound volumes.

It includes the Dáil Debates from 21 January 1919 (First Dáil) to 15 May 1997 (Twenty-Seventh Dáil) and the Seanad Debates from 11 December 1922 (First Seanad) to 10 July 1997 (Twentieth Seanad).

Current Dail and Seanad Debates are still available on the Irish government website at http://www.irlgov.ie.

siobhan@infoconsult.ie.

Online Strategy for Law Firms and Marketing

Charles Christian

Charles Christian has been giving a series of talks around the country on how a smaller firm should develop a website and an online strategy. Now he is offering a paper based on this topic for free, either as a Word document or a pdf file. For a copy of the paper, call Legal News Media on 01379 687518 or email news@legalnewsmedia.com. See also his site at www.legalnewsmedia.com.

Client Appeal

Client Appeal is a public relations and marketing consultancy for firms of solicitors run by Lawrence McNulty (www.clientappeal.co.uk) and based in the Thames Valley. He offers a great deal of free information on the site, under useful headings like advertising, brochures, client care, hospitality and several more. You can also ask a question on any of these topics and receive a useful answer (free).

Practical Solutions

Practical Solutions is a Marketing, Training and IT Consultancy based in Altrincham, Cheshire, and run by legal marketing expert Allan Carton (www.inpractice.co.uk). The site contains articles on marketing the practice, focussing the practice, e-marketing, getting noticed on the web, web sites for conveyancers and other topics (you have to register for the articles but they are free). The firm are also able to develop websites for their clients with a strong marketing approach.

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