Law 2.0
Social business design
“Social business design” is a term you’ve probably not encountered before. I was introduced to it last evening by social computing expert and entrepreneur Lee Bryant at Headshift where I attended an event to explore the themes covered in the report Social Networking for the Legal Profession authored by him with Penny Edwards. I don’t […]
Brainstorm on web law at LawCampLeeds
Jane Lambert of NIPC (also NIPC Law and @nipclaw) is organising LawCampLeeds on 7 April, which will address practical solutions to legal problems presented by development and use of Web 2.0 andWeb 3.0 technologies. I’m sure all you IP/IT lawyers will benefit. Good luck Jane.
Karaoke anyone?
Doug Cornelius has published a great set of slides which he used in his recent presentation on An Attorney’s Perspective on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0. Have a walk through the slides and see if you can parrot what he was saying.
Web 2.0 for lawyers
A much-extended version of this article was published September 2007 in the Legal Web CPD course on Legal Information and Web 2.0. This version was published November 2007 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. What is Web 2.0? The phrase “Web 2.0” was coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2003 and refers to the way software […]
CaseCheck
Here’s a great new Law 2.0 initiative. CaseCheck, headed by Stephen Moore, offers case summaries from the Scottish Courts and EAT, delivered latest-first and also categorised, with RSS feeds. Selected committed users author the summaries; all users can add comments. Does that sound like a familiar formula? Yes, it’s built with an open source blog […]
What does Law 2.0 mean to you?
Credit is due to the Wired GC for first coining the phrase “Law 2.0” back in December 2005, having posted the week before on Web 2.0, Law Style in which he foresaw that: Web 2.0 will be disruptive for the [law status quo], because some measure of control will be lost. And its simple technical […]
Law 2.0 gaining traction
The discussion about “Law 2.0” has been alive for some time with Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell, the Wired GC and other forward thinkers developing their thoughts over the last 18 months. Here’s the collected wisdom they have tagged as Law 2.0: Between Lawyers Wired GC Web-Tones Mullen on Law 2.0+ And following the SCL’s successful […]
Facing the future
Last Friday/Saturday I attended the SCL Web 2.0 conference in Oxford where speakers and panellists included technology lawyers from large practices, lawyers from Web 2.0 companies, a venture capitalist, an academic and our deputy from the ICO. The majority of the delegates were from large law firms – there to learn what this Web 2.0 […]
Web 2.0 – a law publisher’s view
In an article in Information World Review, Will Web 2.0 revolutionise information providers or kill them?, Peter Lake, chairman of the Sweet & Maxwell Group, give his views on its implications for law publishers. Simon Chester on Slaw has helpfully excerpted the comments. Here are a few, stripped of all the original context: The challenge […]
What exactly is Web 2.0?
The expression “Web 2.0” is much in vogue and I am as guilty as anyone in bandying the 2.0 tag about. But what’s it all about? One of the more helpful explanations of Web 2.0 I have come across is on the Web2.0 for Lawyers public wiki which showcases the potential and promise of emerging […]
