Year: 2000
Meta Data Proposals for Legal Advice Sites
First published on infolaw, December 2000 infolaw welcomes the proposals by the Community Legal Service for the promotion of a common meta data standard for websites developed by organisations in the legal and advice sectors. Meta data (data about data) is a formal means of describing the content of documents – in this case web […]
The truth about hits (and misses)
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, November 2000 I hope I will be forgiven for this month straying into territory that some may regard as too technical. Web usage statistics cannot be used to make any inferences about the number of people who have read pages on a site or even […]
The road to free law
Published in the Solicitors Journal, October 2000 [links updated] As most practitioners will be aware, there exists no freely available, comprehensive and up-to-date database of UK law on the internet, but progress has been made. The Statute Law Database? There is no sign yet of the Statute Law Database. A note on the Lord Chancellor’s […]
Getting the most from the Web (II): be a web detective
Published in P.S., the journal of Probate Section, October 2000 The websites of relevant associations usually provide a good jumping off point for practitioners. However, for the probate practitioner, at present these sites disappoint: the Probate Section site at www.probatesection.org.uk currently has little in the way of content and no useful links (let’s hope this […]
Where do you rank?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, September 2000 So you’ve enthusiastically entered the new age: at some cost in time and effort and no doubt hard cash producing a website to promote and deliver your services. But no-one is visiting. What can be done? Traditional advertising The quickest and most effective […]
What’s in a name?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, August 2000 The commercialisation of the web continues at ever increasing pace. The legal market in particular has seen a plethora of new online businesses set up in the last six months. The issue of branding is all-important: dozens of operations have set up branded […]
Civil Procedure Rules OK?
Published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, July 2000 A comparative review of the various CPR products and services by Nick Holmes The introduction last year of a completely new code of procedure for the civil courts prompted the publication of a number of new practice manuals from the law publishers. Whereas previously Sweet & […]
E-commerce for the panicked
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, June 2000 It is now widely stated that firms who do not have an e-commerce capability will soon be out of business. The internet is all-pervasive and while it may not yet have taken as firm a hold on the provision of legal services as […]
Getting the most from the Web (I): a jump start
Published in P.S., the journal of Probate Section, June 2000 Part of this article originally appeared in the Solicitors Journal, February 2000 Most organisations of any size now have websites. Indeed it is frequently the case that an organisation’s web address is the most prominent (and sometimes the only) form of address appearing in its […]
The web-wise at LegalTech London
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, May 2000 LegalTech London (www.legaltechshow.com/london/) is the new incarnation of the annual Summer lawtech show at the Barbican centre in London, now under new management. With around half last year’s number of exhibitors, this year’s show, on 17 and 18 May, had an air of […]
Whom do they serve?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, April 2000 There is a plethora of ‘umbrella’ websites aiming to service the general public seeking legal advice. Typically the commercial sites include a directory of solicitors and some basic information on legal rights. Solicitors pay to be listed in the hope that they will […]
The law is almost free
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, March 2000 The week that saw the stock market flotation of a ridiculously overvalued ‘dot com’ also saw the launch of a minimally funded ‘dot org’ whose value to the UK lawyer is likely to be immense. BAILII, the British and Irish Legal Information Institute […]
Developing a search strategy
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, February 2000 July last year we looked at how to find things on the web – ie using search engines. This included some detail on how to refine searches using Boolean operators and other advanced techniques. Now librarians, information professionals and a minority of other […]
Looks good, but how does it feel?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, January 2000 Around 800 law firms in England and Wales now have websites and with probably about the same number planning to go online in the next year or so, website design is an increasingly important consideration in the marketing and delivery of your firm’s […]
Lawyering on the Web
Published in the Legal Week Benchmarker, January 2000 Legal portals, ISPs and internet communities A portal (or gateway), as the word implies, is a site designed to provide access to the web. There are a number of sites providing useful indexes of legal resources for the UK lawyer. Two with the longest provenance are the […]
