Internet Newsletter for Lawyers

Legal research; web resources for particular work areas Caselex - European case law backbone by Flore Bouhey, September/October 2005 Lawindexpro: review and discussion by Delia Venables, Angus Hamilton and David swarbrick, September/October 2005 EU Law and the Europa Website by Sue Pettit, July/August 2005 What's New in Legal Publishing by Ann Hemming, March/April 2005 News from the Publishers Westlaw UK and the ICLR Weekly Law Reports by Katy Adelson, July/August 2005 Context News by Victoria MacLean, May/June 2005 Scotland and Wales Scottish Legal Resources by Jonathan Mitchell, May/June 2005 Welsh Devolution and the Web by Marie Navarro, March/April 2005 What Next for Welsh Legislation on the Web? by Carolyn Kirby, March/April 2005 British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) and Legal Information Institutes generally Global Legal Research: WorldLII and the Future by Graham Greenleaf, January/February 2005 Freeing the Law in Ireland by John Mee, November/December 2004 BAILII - Where We Are Now by Joe Ury, September/October 2004 BAILII Extends its Coverage, January/February 2004 News from BAILII by Joe Ury, May/June 2003 Presentation to the Bar Report by Delia Venables, January/February 2003 Where We are Now by Lord Justice Brooke, January/February 2003 Be a BAILII Sponsor March/April 2003 RSS: how to pull the news that matters by Nick Holmes, May/June 2004 Web Resources for Particular Work Areas Website resources for the family lawyer and client (2005) by David Hodson, September/October 2005 Free Personal Injury Resources by Lee McIlwaine, July/August 2005 Employment Law Resources on the Web by Shantha David, January/February 2005 Religion and Law on the Internet by Neil Addison, January/February 2005 Education Law Resources by Iain Nisbet, July/August 2004 Web Resources for Money Laundering Regulations by Michael Kaye, March/April 2004 Free and Easy Access to Law by Peter Clinch, January/February 2004 Internet Resources Relating to the Law on Financial Crime by Khawar Qureshi, January/February 2004 Personal Injury Resources on the Web by Rebecca Lambert, September/October 2003 What is Wiki? (Part 1) by Paul Robertson, January/February 2004 New Laws for E-privacy including free web resources for E-privacy by Eduardo Ustaran, May/June 2003 Legal Resources Online for Criminal Lawyers by Andrew Keogh, March/April 2003 Company Research Online by John Craske, March/April 2003 Mediation Resources on the Web by Christopher Butterworth, January/February 2003 Human Rights Update from One Crown Office Row by Delia Venables, November/December 2002 Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) Site Relaunched by Delia Venables, November/December 2002 Web Resources for the Family Lawyer and Client by David Hodson, September/October 2002 Local Government and the Internet by Ross Hussey, July/August 2002 Welsh legislation on the web - the Cardiff Law School Project by David Lambert, July/August 2002 Public International Law by Khawar Qureshi, May/June 2002 Human Rights Material on the Internet by Khawar Qureshi, March/April 2002 Property Law Resources by Gary Webber, November/December 2001 E-Commerce Resources by Paul Sillis and Robert Ungar, September/October 2001 Data Protection and Privacy Law Information by Stewart Dresner and Sandra Kelman, September/October 2001 The Inevitable Decline of Traditional Legal Publishing by Russell Shepherd, March/April 2004 Traditional Legal Publishing - Inevitable Decline? May/June 2004 Riposte from Matthew Rowe of LexisNexis UK Riposte from Julie Stott of Sweet & Maxwell Contribution from a legal librarian (who prefers to remain anonymous) Articles on Legal Libraries and Choosing Legal Resources Online Horses for Courses and Value for Money by Oriole Newgass, January/February 2005 Theory Meets Real Life in the Legal Library by Julia Bragg, March/April 2004 The Chambers Library by Sonia Michaels, January/February 2002 Leading Regional Firm by Kathy Jones, March/April 2002 Sole Practitioner, Major Irish Firm and Local Law Society by Montagu Martin, Thrse Broy and Ruth Martin, Nov/Dec 2001 City law Firm, Provincial Firm and Academic Library by Hilary Green, Steve Harris and Sarah Carter, September/October 2001 Series on Legal Publishers Online Practical Law Company by Guy Baring, July/August 2004 WordWave by Sarah Andrews, May/June 2004 Legalease by Mark Cusick, March/April 2004 The Estates Gazette Group by Joanne Tenhave, January/February 2004 The Jordans Group by Nicola Webb and Philip Wilmott, November/December 2003 Incorporated Council of Law Reporting by Martha Hawting, November/December 2003 The Lawyer Group by Rachel Lesiter, September/October 2003 Semple Piggot Rochez by John Pitman, September/October 2003 Butterworths by Caroline Phelps, July/August 2003 Context by Justin Needle, July/August 2003 Sweet & Maxwell by Katy Adelson, May/June 2003 Short Reports on New Research Tools Lawfinder Data Feeds, November/December 2004 BIALL Database of Online Publications, November/December 2004 Two Important New Research Tools - JustCite and Lawlinker, May/June 2004 Reviews and News of Scottish Research Services Scottish Session Cases by Anthony Kinahan, November/December 2003 LexisNexis Butterworths Scotland Review by John Craske, January/February 2003 Westlaw UK Services for Scotland Review by Gillian Leslie, January/February 2003 Scottish Online Services by Laurence Kennedy, July/August 2001 Reviews and News of Irish Legal Research Services Legal Research Products for the Irish Market by Nuala Byrne, (overall review and comparison), July/August 2004 LexisNexis Professional for Ireland by Nuala Byrne, January/February 2004 Electronic Irish Reports and Digests on Justis by Nuala Byrne, November/December 2003 FirstLaw by Nuala Byrne, July/August 2003 Westlaw IE by Nuala Byrne, May/June 2003 Irish legal research on the Internet by Jennefer Aston, July/August 2002 Context launches Irish Reports and Digests on the Web, July/August 2003 Case Alerter - new service from Casetrack by Clair Woodward, July/August 2003 Occasional series on what English language resources are available for legal material in other countries Translations of Russian Legislation by Alexander Nikiforov, March/April 2003 The French Legal Web by Michael Haravon, January/February 2003 The Story of Law-index and now Lawindexpro by David Swarbrick, May/June 2002 Knowledge Management by Derek Sturdy, March/April 2002 XML and the Law by Roger Horne, January/February 2002 The "Athens" Access Management System by Daniel Bates, November/December 2001 The Legal Profession in Northern Ireland and the Internet by Barry Phillips, May/June 2001

Selling and marketing legal services; practice developments Be more efficient, using the web by Allan Carton, September/October 2005 Chambers without walls - a Virtual Chambers by Neil Goodman-Smith, September/October 2005 Running a Virtual Law Firm by Andrew Woolley, May/June 2004 How Barristers use the Internet by Martin Poulter, July/August 2005 The Story of First Law by Anthony Armitage, July/August 2005 Most Solicitors Shun Marketing Sites by Delia Venables, May/June 2005 Solicitors and Marketing Sites - A Response by Martin Davies, July/August 2005 How Barristers use the Internet by Martin Poulter, July/August 2005 Property Law Website by Gary Webber, July/August 2005 Injury Lawyers 4U by Martin Cockx, May/June 2005 How to get into the Search Engines by Nicola Webb, March/April 2005 A Second Generation Website for a Chambers by Karen Rock Monnick, March/April 2005 The Tesco Legal Store by Alan Chance, November/December 2004 Shopping in Tesco Legal Store by Neil Howlett, September/October 2004 New Sites from Enterprising Barristers by Delia Venables, November/December 2004 Website Design for Lawyers by Alex Heshmaty, September/October 2004 Ten Sins of Website Design for Lawyers by Delia Venables, May/June 2002 Series on Case tracking Online- Solicitors Using the Web to Develop New Client Services Debate on the "Pay as you Convey" model for conveyancing online, May/June 2004 Martin MacDuff of ConveyanceLink Dominic Cullis of Easy Convey And the earlier articles.... Case Tracking Online by Delia Venables, January/February 2003 Suppliers Offering Case Tracking Online, May/June 2003 Note on Case Studies, March/April 2003: Note on Case Studies, May/June 2003 and then the actual case studies..... Axxia - Morton Fraser by Ian Thomson, May/June 2003 DPS - Stanley Tee by Ian Fretwell, May/June 2003 EasyConvey - Chartahouse by Nick Hawkins, May/June 2003 Linetime - LCL Collections by Ian Longbottom, May/June 2003 Norwel - Lees Lloyd Whitley by Tony Nicholls, May/June 2003 Pericom - Franklins by Michael Franklin, May/June 2003 SellersLink - Bates & Partners by Matthew Clark, May/June 2003 AIM - AMS Law by Steve Williams, March/April 2003 Solicitec - Yuill + Kyle by Stephen Cowen, March/April 2003 Solicitec - Fitzpatricks by Tom Fitzpatrick, March/April 2003 Pracctice - Sykes Anderson by David Anderson, March/April 2003 Videss - Sills & Betteridge by Paul Cowen and Gary Phillips, March/April 2003 DIY - Wilson Nesbitt by Kieran Gilmurray, March/April 2003 Scottish Firms Work Together to Provide a Legal Knowledge Data Base by Delia Venables, March/April 2004 Landlord-Law Online (and Selling Legal Services Online Generally) by Tessa Shepperson, March/April 2004 On-line Legal Services - are they a Dead Duck? by Michael Kaye, July/August 2003 Money Laundering Update by Michael Kaye, September/October 2003 Ongoing Series on specialised sites and work-related domain names Latest Specialised Websites by Delia Venables, March/April 2004 Latest Specialised Websites by Delia Venables, January/February 2004 More Specialised Websites by Delia Venables, November/December 2003 The Role of Specialised Websites by Lorraine Chapman, September/October 2003 Blogging for Lawyers by Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon, September/October 2003 Real Lawyers Don't Blog by Sen Mac Cann, September/October 2003 Four Firms Relaunch their Websites by Delia Venables, September/October 2003 Developing a Portal for your Law Firm by Delia Venables, July/August 2003 The Story of Divorce-Online by Mark Keenan, May/June 2003 Comment on Divorce-Online by Lawrence McNulty, July/August 2003 Barristers can have Intranets too by Michael Mclean, July/August 2003 Developments in Irish Firm Sites by Siobhan Heaney, July/August 2003 What is a Deal Room? by Kevin Doolan, March/April 2003 Fewer High Street Firms Selling Legal Services Online by Delia Venables, March/April 2003 Dotpro Domains Restricted by Tim Brown, May/June 2003 Are the new dot-pro domains worth it? by Tim Brown, September/October 2002 Barristers on the Web by Delia Venables, September/October 2002 Solicitors say "No thanks" to marketing sites by Delia Venables, July/August 2002 Selling Legal services on the web - why are the Irish lagging behind? by Siobhan Heaney, July/August 2002 Website Disclaimers by Claire Griffiths, July/August 2002 series on Bright New Ideas for Websites Keeping a Website Alive and Kicking by Louise Rutherford of Golds, November/December 2002 People Buy People by Jackie Reiss of Collyer-Bristow, November/December 2002 Linking up with a Business Transfer Agency by Maria Cordina of Sherrards, September/October 2002 Providing an Interactive CD about the Firm by Bill Jones of JMW, September/October 2002 A Network of Small Firms Working Together by Nicholas Openshaw of xlsis, September/October 2002 A small Irish firm with a dual language site by Duncan Grehan, July/August 2002 A niche site born of enthusiasm - gardenlaw - by Richard Smithies, July/August 2002 The Conveyancing Room by Graham Ross, May/June 2002 Norton Rose and Emplaw by Tim Russell, March/April 2002 Winward Fearon and Construction Law by Tim Gulliver, March/April 2002 Osborne Clarke and gamesbiz - by Paul Gardner, March/April 2002 Landlord-Law Online by Tessa Shepperson, January/February 2002 Hugh James Ford & Simey and Click2law.com by Alun Jones, January/February 2002 Fitzpatricks and Conveyancing File Chaser by Tom Fitzpatrick, November/December 2001 Canter Levin & Berg and Online Conveyancing Quotes by Martin Malone, November/December 2001 Yuill & Kyle and Credit Control by Stephen Cowan, November/December 2001 Scottish Law Online and Multilingual Facilities by Kevin Crombie, November/December 2001 Beauchamps and growonline.ie by Shaun O'Shea, November/December 2001 Sykes Anderson & Marketing on Other Peoples' Websites by David Anderson, September/October 2001 Firstlaw and Managing Tenders by Ben Horton, September/October 2001 Boyes Turner and Dual Marketing by Ian White, September/October 2001 Sinclair Abson Smith and the SAS by John Cook, September/October 2001 Rooks Rider and Women's Interests by Lucy Riley, September/October 2001

How the web is changing whole areas of legal life (including conveyancing) Chambers without walls - a Virtual Chambers by Neil Goodman-Smith, September/October 2005 Running a Virtual Law Firm by Andrew Woolley, May/June 2004 How Barristers use the Internet by Martin Poulter, July/August 2005 Pro Bono on the Web by Graham Bucknall, March/April 2005 E-conveyancing and Property Lawyers and Electronic Signatures by Stephen Mason, July/August 2005 Web Site for an In-House Estate Agency by Lawrence McNulty, May/June 2005 Case Tracking Online - for French Property by David Anderson, May/June 2005 Home Information Packs (HIP's) and HIPAG by Rob Hailstone, May/June 2005 E-Conveyancing - The Story So Far by Alastair Rhodes, January/February 2005 The End is Nigh - Or Possibly Not by Raymond Perry, September/October 2004 Practical Problems of Digital Signatures by Stephen Mason, November/December 2003 E-Conveyancing - Promise and Reality by Raymond Perry, September/October 2003 NLIS Update by Mark Riddick, November/December 2002 Old Meets New in Property Group by Maitland Kalton, September/October 2002 A practitioner's view by Alastair Rhodes, July/August 2002 A secretary's view by Jackie Jones, July/August 2002 A consultant's view by Allan Carton, July/August 2002 UN Forum on Online Dispute Resolution by Graham Ross, November/December 2004 .NET Changes Everything by Martin Siddle, November/December 2004 The Paperless Office - Has it Worked? by Peter Garsden, September/October 2004 The Paperless Office by Peter Garsden, May/June 2004 Backing up Data - Online or Onsite by Antony Nicholls, November/December 2004 Is Online Backup Feasible for Lawyers? by Roderick Ramage, September/October 2004 Outsourcing and Off-shoring for Lawyers using the Internet by Sunil Radia, May/June 2004 Operation Ore: An Expert's Story by Alistair Kelman, November/December 2003 Digital Rights Management by Laurence Kaye, July/August 2003 Digital Rights Management Update by Laurence Kaye, September/October 2003 Locating an Expert Witness by Clive Lougher, May/June 2003 Voluntary Sector Providing Legal Information on the Web (or not, as the case may be) by Steve Donnison, May/June 2003 Forms on the Web by Nick Holmes, March/April 2003 The Changing Face of the Official Record by Martin Bangs, January/February 2003 Gambling on the Web by Lindsey Greig, January/February 2003 Richard Susskind's Talk on Online Government by Delia Venables, November/December 2002 Legal Discussion Groups on the Internet by John Antell, November/December 2002 Court Lists, CourtDiary and CourtCommentary by Delia Venables, November/December 2002 "Clerksroom" Explained by Stephen Ward, January/February 2002

Legal aspects of websites and of e-commerce Website optimisation - bringing trade mark infringers to book by Daniel Doherty, September/October 2005 When is your software not your software? by Kolvin Stone, September/October 2005 Lawyers and Electronic Signatures by Stephen Mason, July/August 2005 News from EURid about the New .eu domain, May/June 2005 Nominet, Domain Names and the Law by Willie Black, March/April 2005 Articles on Privacy, Data Protection, Email Marketing, Spam and Related topics Lawyers - are they Data Protection Compliant? by Peter Carey, November/December 2004 Email Marketing Regulation Across Europe by Eduardo Ustaran, September/October 2004 Privacy and Electronic Communications - Ten Tricky Questions Answered by Eduardo Ustaran, January/February 2004 Email - the New Law by Charles Black, November/December 2003 New Laws for E-privacy by Eduardo Ustaran, May/June 2003 including free web resources for E-privacy Articles on "Accessibility" of Websites Accessibility in Practice by Antony Nicholls, September/October 2004 Is Your Website Accessible? by David Gilroy, July/August 2004 Accessibility Survey by Delia Venables, July/August 2004 Web Site Design and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 by Stephen Mason, May/June 2002 Community Legal Services Quality Mark by Adrian Miles, May/June 2002 Will Your Site Be Legal? and free email newsletter on accessibility issues, May/June 2002 Meta Tags and Adwords by Michael Coyle and Jason Lysandrides, July/August 2004 E-Commerce Law Developments by Kolvin Stone, May/June 2004 Foul Play or Fair Game? by Daniel Doherty, March/April 2004 What's On My Bookshelf by Jeremy Holt, March/April 2004 Domains are Hot Property by Tim Brown, November/December 2003 Jurisdiction on the Internet Jurisdiction on the Internet - Where to Sue? by Sinead Morgan, March/April 2004 The Internet Is Not Special by Louis Joseph, January/February 2003 Internet Defamation - In what Jurisdiction Can An Action Be Taken? (Irish Case Report) by Louise Gallagher, January/February 2003 Current Legal Developments in Ireland relating to the Internet by Patrick Ryan, November/December 2002 Recent E-Commerce Regulation in the UK by Kolvin Stone, May/June 2002 Review of Tolley's Domain Names, September/October 2002 Recent US Case Law by Maitland Kalton, May/June 2002 Internet Law and Regulation by Graham Smith reviewed by Eduardo Ustaran, May/June 2002 Mistakes in Online Transactions by Daniel Bates, March/April 2002 Electronic Signatures Explained by Stephen Mason, January/February 2002 and.. Electronic Signatures in Ireland E-Commerce Resources by Paul Sillis and Robert Ungar, September/October 2001

email and online activities in a firm - management, legality, security, risks; also phone lines How Barristers use the Internet by Martin Poulter, July/August 2005 Managed Email - One Less Worry? by Simon Page, May/June 2005 Managing Internet Risk by Rupert Kendrick, March/April 2005 Firewalls - Why You Need Them by Roger Jackson, January/February 2005 Backing up Data - Online or Onsite by Antony Nicholls, November/December 2004 Is Online Backup Feasible for Lawyers? by Roderick Ramage, September/October 2004 Web Acronyms Galore by Alex Heshmaty, November/December 2004 .pro progress and .eu soon by Tim Brown, July/August 2004 co.uk or .com? (or .ie or .com?) by Delia Venables, July/August 2004 Profile of Lawyers Online by Delia Venables, July/August 2004 The Paperless Office by Peter Garsden, May/June 2004 Outsourcing and Off-shoring for Lawyers using the Internet by Sunil Radia, May/June 2004 Running a Virtual Law Firm by Andrew Woolley, May/June 2004 Privacy and Electronic Communications - Ten Tricky Questions Answered by Eduardo Ustaran, January/February 2004 Email - the New Law by Charles Black, November/December 2003 Lawyers Like Blackberries - Case Studies by Patrick Ryan, Jonathan Fox and Jennifer Buckle, March/April 2004 Lawyers Like BlackBerries and Call for Volunteers, January/February 2004 Spam Wars - Next Big Threat for Law Firms by Delia Venables, September/October 2003 Approaches to Spam Controlby Delia Venables, September/October 2003 including further articles in Microsoft Word format by Dean Hill-Jowett, Simon Bennett, Charles Black, and Peter Sweeney How to Avoid Spam by Alan Tomlinson, November/December 2003 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." Full article in Microsoft Word format here. Metadata and Email - Disclosure Issues in an Electronic Age Report of Talks by Nick Gardner and Adrian Palmer, September/October 2003 E-Privacy and Online Data Protection - new book by Eduardo Ustaran, November/December 2002 Nightmares of the Net for Law Firms by Rupert Kendrick, September/October 2002 Review of Cyber-Risks, September/October 2002 Review of Email and Internet Access solutions, September/October 2002 Email Disclaimers by Claire Griffiths, September/October 2002 Harnessing Internet and Email by Dominic Watson, September/October 2002 Draft Email/Internet Usage Policy (Microsoft Word document), September/October 2002 ADSL - how was it for you? by Keith Arrowsmith, July/August 2002 ADSL at the Office by Keith Arrowsmith, September/October 2002 Email - Beware the Trojan Horse by Stephen Hammett, March/April 2002 Emails: Use, Abuse and Regulation by Paul McGrath, November/December 2001

New sites; new software, general interest CPD Anywhere by Jacqui Gilliatt, September/October 2005 Trials for Scottish Schools by Anthony Kinahan, July/August 2005 New Site for Civil Appeals by Peter Farr, July/August 2005 Black Lawyers Directory (BLD) by Debo Nwauzu, July/August 2005 Avoiding Information Overload - Linex Legal by Matthew Dickinson, May/June 2005 What Exactly is .NET? compiled by Delia Venables, March/April 2005 .NET Changes Everything by Martin Siddle, November/December 2004 The Return of Browser Wars by Nick Holmes, January/February 2005 New Scottish Parliament Site Launched, November/December 2004 Government Legal Service by Victoria Smith, LexisNexis UK, November/December 2004 The Government's New Site DirectGov by Delia Venables, September/October 2004 What's New on the Legal Internet by Delia Venables, September/October 2004 New Law Society Site; new CLS site; Solicitors Support Network Money Claim Online (MCOL) by Ken Fraser, July/August 2004 PIQuantum - a New Online Software Tool by Robert Weston, July/August 2004 What's New on the Legal Internet by Delia Venables, July/August 2004 Copy Free Zone from Context; Civil Court Service from Jordans; Electronic Signatures in Law by Stephen Mason; Tesco Legal Store; Deaf Lawyers, Emplaw; firms and chambers sites New Directions, January/February 2004 Free CPD from CrimeLine; New Directory of Barristers and Chambers; Legal Information Exchange Other News, January/February 2004 Scottish Property Standardisation Group; Government Archives and Library Deposits; New Chambers' Initiatives Hutton Enquiry: How It's Done by Mike Wicksteed and Sarah Andrews, November/December 2003 Department of Consitutional Affairs Website Launched, January/February 2004 New Site for the Lord Chancellor's Department by Mike Wicksteed, May/June 2003 LCD Website - Update, September/October 2003 by Mike Wicksteed European Judicial Network, May/June 2003 Historical Irish Parliamentary Papers on the Web, March/April 2003 Legal Aid Practitioners Group by Richard Miller, March/April 2003 Criminal Justice System Online, July/August 2002

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