The Internet Newsletter for Lawyers & Law 2.0 covers how the internet presents the law,
how it widens access to the law, how it is affecting society and the world we live in, how it is affecting legal practice,
getting the best from your website and legal aspects of e-commerce.
The Internet Newsletter for Lawyers & Law 2.0 has become a community of lawyers, and those working with lawyers, who are
interested in the legal internet from all its "angles" - how it presents the law, how it widens access to the
law, how it is affecting society and the world we live in, legal aspects of e-commerce and websites, how
lawyers themselves use it for communicating and for improving service to their clients, how it is changing
legal practice for both solicitors and barristers, how they use the internet to market themselves and to sell
legal services on the web and IT issues relating to all these topics.
It is typically taken by lawyers interested in how to develop their website and how to make the best use
of resources online (particularly free ones), lawyers looking to develop the services they can offer their
clients, marketing people within firms and chambers working on raising their
profile and getting new work, IT staff responsible for applications related to the internet,
and librarians and information-related staff, who circulate the newsletter to those with a special interest in one or
more topics.
(Printed copies of the most recent THREE issues will be provided free to new subscribers
as well as ALL of them available online).
In the May/June issue, we consider whether law firms should develop a presence on the social networks and we start a series of short
articles on how lawyers can promote themselves effectively, starting with Facebook. We look at the concept of a “virtual chambers” and
what it means to be one. We continue our series on marketing and referral companies with a review of Legallybetter.com. As always
in this series, we include user reviews so you can see what users think of the service in question. We provide a step by step guide to
what you can do to improve the Google rating for your site. We examine DirectLaw, the online document drafting system which enables
firms of solicitors to sell their own documents online, and describe how it works, and what its users think of it. We return to the theme of
what firms can do with social media in an article by a solicitor experimenting with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We also look at the
MoJ RTA PI claims scheme and try to assess how it is going and also look at Google AdWords as related to the use of (other peoples’)
trademarks as keywords.
In the March/April 2010 issue, we look at the new EU directive about cookies, and what sort of consent a website needs to set up a
cookie on a browser’s computer. Continuing our series on marketing and referral companies, we review TakeLegalAdvice,
a well established service with around 400 firms as members. We look at Perren Buildings, a group of criminal solicitor
advocates working together in a new type of structure. We consider the concept of “local search” which should enable
someone looking for a solicitor in your own area to find YOU. We look at how solicitors at Lawrence Graham now use their
Blackberry to record, and then transmit, their dictation, using an application from Bighand. We hear how Addleshaw Goddard
are using social media to share information on legal topics, client areas and know-how generally. And we provide shorter articles
on how public sector data is now becoming widely available on a Creative Commons type of licence, how Google is now offering
legal opinions on Google Scholar (mainly USA based so far) and the latest developments in the Google Book Settlement.
In the January/February 2010 issue, Richard Susskind describes the innovations in IT which support the
new Supreme Court. We pick out highlights from 2009 in copyright
and digital media law and provide a snapshot of where we are now. The series on referral companies
continues with a look at LawNet. Can the provision of pro bono legal advice be improved using the
facilities of the internet? We hear how LawWorks, the Solicitors
Pro Bono Group, is going about this. We look at how Blacklaws Davis works –
part “conventional” law firm and part virtual law firm. Cloud computing is set to be one of the key topics
of 2010 and we hear what is involved. We suggest 20 ways in which firms could simplify their life,
cut out unnecessary processes, and thereby make – or save –
more money and we describe a new way of using RSS which enables firms to provide legal news for
their clients’ web sites.
In the November/December 2009 issue, we look at The Google Book settlement, which, if approved, will allow Google to
put the books of the world online but not everyone thinks this is a good idea. We look at the topic of website
accessibility which has gone very quiet recently. Why is this? We explain what is going on in this field.
We continue our series on referral sites – which are successful and which are worth buying into; this time
we look at Contact Law. We look at the different methods of assessing client satisfaction, and online methods
in particular. It is now possible to “mix” elements of web sites, blogs, wikis and even twitter – we hear
how this can be done, getting the benefit of all these technologies. We suggest how you can “engage” casual
visitors to your site so that they become clients with a description of the devices, facilities and tools
you can use for each stage. Not all virtual firms want to be described as "virtual" – we hear why.
We provide a short tutorial on the Europa site and describe some of the best legal resources online
(free ones) provided by chambers.
In the September/October 2009 issue, we look at the virtual firms which have featured in previous issues of the newsletter
and find out how they are getting on now and we also summarise the key technology features which have made virtual firms possible.
We start a new series on referral companies – which ones are worth the money? This time we cover Quality Solicitors.
We look at the latest developments from Justis and get up to date on the nature and reliability of electronic evidence,
disclosure and admissibility. We look at the way that outsourcing is developing. We cover the major features of
Search Engine Optimisation with an indication of which areas are worth real effort and which are not.
We look at ways in which Web 2.0 can be used within the organisation to make life simpler as well as more efficient.
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