Pages on the Web
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A walk down the internet High Street
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, November 1999. Back in January we looked at some examples of ‘internet shopping’ or e-commerce as it’s now commonly known. 1999 has seen most suppliers of substance implement e-commerce sites – ie sites where you can actually acquire the goods and services on offer, rather […]
Cases on the web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, October 1999. House of Lords judgments The texts of all House of Lords judgments delivered since 14 November 1996 are on the House of Lords pages on the Parliament site. New judgments appear online within two hours of delivery at the House. Judgments are listed […]
Legislation on the web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, September 1999. HMSO’s Legislation website gives access to the full texts of Acts published since January 1996, plus the Data Protection Act 1984, the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; explanatory notes of Acts from 1999 and summaries of a wide […]
Nick Holmes unlocks the gates
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, July 1999. A portal (or gateway), as the word implies, is a site designed to provide access to the web. Portals are flavour of the month these days, as a successful site will attract a high volume of traffic which will in turn attract advertising […]
Finding things on the web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, June 1999. I suspect that few people other than information professionals and other web technofiles like using search engines. What users want is to find things on the web quickly and easily. They are not interested in how the data is gathered, indexed or delivered, […]
Is the law a can of beans?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, May 1999. Can legal services be packaged and sold ‘off the shelf’ over the internet? Those who think not should open there eyes and look around, for it has been happening for some time. With the popularisation of computing in the early 80s came the […]
Nick Holmes finds the Government promising
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, April 1999. The Government last month published two documents of great import to you, web user, lawyer, businessman and citizen: The White Paper, The Future Management of Crown Copyright, lays the foundations for a flexible and responsive management system, and establishes the Government Information Asset […]
