Legal web
Accessible law
First published on VoxPopuLII, February 2011. Also published in Justice Wide Open Working Papers, May 2012. Professor Richard Leiter, on his blog, The Life of Books, poses The 21st Century Law Library Conundrum: Free Law and Paying to Understand It: The digital revolution, that once upon a time promised free access to legal materials, will […]
The legal web – a worthy mess
Jason Wilson is a law publisher with great insights. He has a nice clean minimalist blog with great pics accompanying each post. More importantly, he’s interested in the kind of questions I’m also trying to answer, such as: Can we crowdsource reliable analytical legal content? I have given considerable thought to this problem (and I […]
A new Legal Web ebook with CPD for solicitors
Thanks to Tessa Shepperson for reviewing favourably Delia Venables and my latest Legal Web ebook with CPD for solicitors called Modern Practice Topics for Solicitors. Are you feeling ignorant about the internet. Worried about wikis? Bothered by blogs? Or intimidated by twitter? You need a bit of professional training and guidance. Allow me to introduce […]
CPD without tears
Delia Venables and I have just produced and published another two online Legal Web e-books with 5 CPD each. Topics for Barristers covers Chambers Management and the Web; Virtual Chambers; Websites, Resources and Blogs; Electronic Resources in the Inns of Court Libraries; and Legal IT as a Commodity. Legal Information and Web 2.0 covers Free […]
e-Books for lawyers
I have expended much of my creative effort these last few weeks finishing off a couple of new e-books with 5 CPD points a pop on the subject of the legal web, produced by me and Delia Venables and just published on infolaw. You’ll find full details there, but here’s a quick summary. Changing Practice […]
Centralised or distributed (law) publishing?
Steve Butler at UKBlawgers argues for “a central source of legal information which is available to all at a very low price” and suggests a sort of grand law wiki as the solution. Now the wiki is certainly a neat collaborative publishing tool and has many advantages over more conventional publishing systems and many valid […]
Whither the Legal Web Part 2
Another plug for Whither the Legal Web?, the new e-book compiled and edited by me and Delia Venables, Part 2 of which is published today. Part 1, available since May, covers Legal Information. Part 2, now available, covers how the web is transforming Legal Practice, with articles on the transformation of communication, managing email, electronic […]
Whither the Legal Web?
I’ve been hard at work with Delia Venables these past few months putting together a new online publication called Whither the Legal Web?, designed to bring you up to date on legal web developments, point you to where it’s going and earn you CPD points. The fruits of our labours are now published. Please support […]
The UK legal web is 10 years old
In the Autumn of 1994 Jeffrey Green Russell was the first UK solicitors practice to establish its own website. Thus began the UK legal web. By early 1995 it comprised a handful of intrepid law firms and barristers, the Law Schools at Bristol and Strathclyde and infolaw and Delia Venables – the first portal sites. […]
Solicitors and barristers website survey
Intendance Ltd has just published the results of its 2004 survey of solicitors firm websites, which follows a similar survey of barristers websites published last month. The sites of 100 firms of solicitors and 100 barristers chambers were reviewed and scores awarded in three categories: content, usability (ease of finding and extracting information), and design […]
Towards more accessible law
First published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, September 2001. The public provision of law on the web leaves much to be desired: it is not comprehensive it is not “joined up” it is not easily accessible. This article takes stock of the current position and looks at ongoing initiatives to improve it. It refers […]
Researching the Legal Web 2nd edition
Researching the Legal Web: a guide to legal resources on the internet By Nick Holmes and Delia Venables Published by Butterworths, November 1999, 228pp In 1999 this was the ‘must have’ book for those using, or wanting to know about, the UK legal web. It references around 1,000 sites then of real practical value to […]
