Law publishing
Community, democracy and the future of law publishing
First published November 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The rise of social software A phenomenon of the last two years has been the meteoric rise of services built on “social software” – services that enable people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities (popularly referred to using […]
Democratising law publishing
Jordan Furlong, who edits the Canadian Lawyers Weekly, posts on Slaw about how blogs and RSS feeds will democratise Legal Publishing in the 21st Century: Legal publishers need to understand that the number of competitors [in legal news publishing] is not going to shrink – it’s going to multiply tenfold. And these competitors won’t have […]
Free access to the laws that bind us?
Heather Brooke who blogs on FoI issues on Your Right to Know writes today in Technology Guardian about the Statute Law Databaseas part of its Free Our Data campaign under the headline “Access denied to the laws that govern us”. It’s true the publiccontinues to bedenied access to the SLD which has been some 10 […]
Current Law Journal Content
Hats off to Washington & Lee Law School for their fantastic resource, Current Law Journal Content. CLJC provides summary views and feeds for the content of over 1220 law journals, sets up searches for individual articles across relevant web resources and links to full content where available. (Of course, full content is free for only […]
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 […]
What’s up with Daily Law Notes?
ICLR is in the process of morphing its Daily Law Notes service into WLR Daily. “Welcome to the new look case summary service from ICLR that replaces the Daily Law Notes. The service remains the same; providing free 24 hour access to summaries but in a new easier to use format.” What this, in fact, […]
A new name in UK law publishing
On 20 October LexisNexis UK sold a portfolio of approximately 600 titles to Tottel Publishing, a company set up by Jim Smith, a former UK publishing director of LexisNexis Butterworths. The sale includes bound books and some 70 looseleaf works, journals and newsletters, as well as the entire Irish list and many of the titles […]
Register of commercial online law resources
BIALL has set up a Legal Online Resource Database – a register of all the online services provided by the mainstream commercial publishers. You can view the register by selecting title, host, subject, material type, or jurisdiction, or view a listing of what’s new. Records give a brief summary of coverage and link through to […]
Legal Publishers: Lawzone relaunched
As presaged in our February item, TheLawyer.com relaunched LawZone last month. All traces of its former identity have disappeared and LawZone is now a subsite of TheLawyer site, presentationally similar to the other main sections, Lawyer News, Lawyer Jobs, Lawyer Diary, Lawyer Directories and Business Watch. LawZone presents News and Features and Articles provided by […]
Legal Publishers: Centaur sold and Lawzone to relaunch
Centaur Communications, the publisher of The Lawyer magazine and TheLawyer.com, has been sold for about £130m to stockbroker Numis Securities, who plan to float the company on the junior Aim market. The acquisition by Numis has sparked some controversy and may yet result in an investigation by the Financial Services Authority. Meanwhile back at the […]
Legal Publishers: LexisNexis to launch new technology platform
LexisNexis is launching the first release of a single global technology platform that will deliver its information products and services in the US and worldwide. The new single platform is intended to make it easier for lawyers or other professionals working around the world to obtain information relevant to their home country or to other […]
Law Publishing without Boundaries
First published [somewhere] , December 1996 When we think of law publishing we probably first think of Butterworths, Sweet & Maxwell and FT Law & Tax, Tolleys if we are tax practitioners, and perhaps other smaller names. Turning to new media we are not on very sure ground. We may know of Context, pioneers in […]
The future of law publishing
First published in the Solicitors Journal, September 1996. These days a month is a long time in publishing, and two months even more so. This summer (still referred to as ‘the silly season’ by those who are writing about those who have nothing better to write about) was no exception. Two notable events occurred while […]
1995 – Year 1 for Electronic Publishing
First published May 1995 in Computers and Law (1995, vol. 6, no 1, pp. 6-8). Republished here with slight edits to broken bits. Writing in 1985, shortly after its demise, David Warlock reported that Eurolex … had registered some 375 client organisations at the time of its closure, of whom some 200 were paying a […]
