Amicus Attorney IV
A trainee solicitor at my firm recently told me that advice from her professional exam course was for students to avoid taking training positions with practices who did not have a case management system in place….
Intellectual Property
Free the Law – Inspiration and Motivation
On 8 November at Chatham House, SCL and other conveningorganisations combined to hear from Professor Graham Greenleaf about electronicaccess to legal materials in Australia and to examine the possibility ofemulating the Australian example in the UK. I doubt that many of those attending the meetingexpected to be part of an historic event. But by the…
Global Mergers Communications Solutions
Frances Coulson is joint Managing Partnerof ShawnCoulson. She has been Litigation Partner of the London firm Moon Beeverfor 11 years. Moon Beever now form the London office of ShawnCoulson. The firmhas offices in London, Washington DC, Hartford Connecticut, Brussels, Lyons,Madrid, Geneva and Luxembourg. New offices are being planned in Paris, Milan,Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, and Athens…
Battling over the Bug: Y2K and US Court Cases
Susan McGhie Sang is an associate solicitor at Myers Fletcher& Gordon, Hammersmith, London and can be contacted on 0171 610 4433. The Millennium Bug is perhaps the best known personality of 1999. As theworld prepares for 1 January, 2000 in the hope that most of its anticipatedcomputer problems will have been solved or minimised by…
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From the Editor’s Chair
Free the Law By the time this issue hits members’ desks we will be only days away fromthe Free the Law event in London on 8 November. Regular readers will need noreminding that the issues concern making primary legal information freelyavailable on the Internet and the ways in which the information revolution canbe made to…
Intranets – Why, and Why Bother?
Rupert Kendrick LL.M is a Law Firm Management Consultant. He canbe contacted on 01234 782810, or by e-mail at RupertKendrick@compuserve.com Much has been written of the technological sophistication ofIntranets, but do lawyers really appreciate the potentially seismic effects theymight have on the management of the lawyer/client relationship? What is an Intranet? It might most easily…
Computer Misuse Prosecutions
Peter Sommer examines the lessons to be taken from two recent prosecutions under the Computer Misuse Act 1990….
Why use the Internet? – A Back to Basics approach to the Internet
John Ridd has worked in the technology industry for 15 years andis Managing Director of XTML, a specialist provider of permanent Internet accesssolutions. Their Web site is at www.xtml.co.uk The dramatic increase in the number of large commercial firms going onlinefar outweighs the number of smaller law firms. With over 10.5 million Internetusers in the…
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Limitation Clauses, Restitution and Doomed Computer Systems
The recent case of South West Water v ICL has provoked intense interest and Nick Sarker analyses it for us….
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E- Commerce and its Impact on Pricing
Ben Goodger is a Partner at Willoughby & Partners. He may becontacted at ben@iprights.com ‘A long time ago – maybe last Thursday…’ is how one of the Winnie thePooh stories starts. It’s a bit like that with any discussion of the world ofe-commerce. There are bound to be things in this article which are out-of-dateby…