Sarah Ahmed is a Partner and Head of the Commercial Departmentat Anthony Gold Lerman & Muirhead. She can be contacted on 0171 940 4000. Management consultancy, including computer consultancy, is one of theso-called ‘new professions’ who can buy insurance labelled ‘professionalindemnity’ to underwrite their competence. The case of Stephenson Blake (Holdings) Ltd v Streets Heaver…
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Professor Graham Greenleaf, the co-founder and Co-Director of theAustralasian legal Information Institute (AustLII) is coming to London inNovember. He will take the opportunity on his visit to speak at a meeting on 8November which is jointly organised by SCL on the subject of access to law viathe Internet and to update his audience on AustLII…
Richard Cohen is Legal Director of Epoch Software. He can becontacted on 0181 931 3030 or via e-mail at richard@epochsoftware.co.uk There was a time when solicitors were held in high regard. Much like doctorsand bank managers their expertise was never questioned and their incomes wereassured. However, now that the year 2000 is almost upon us,…
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Jeremy Hyman is IT Partner at Berg Kaprow Lewis, producers ofPKM Intranet, a mid-range Knowledge Management solution. He can be contacted at jeremyh@bklchart.co.uk Most legal practices have made significant investments in their IT systems.The fact is that the vast majority of IT systems are not providing benefits inline with their potential. They perform tasks that…
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Andrew Terrett is a legal information systems advisor withMasons Solicitors. He is also the author of The Internet – BusinessStrategies for Law Firms to be published by the Law Society later this year.He can be contacted at andrew.terrett@masons.com ‘Success in the marketplace today is directly proportional to theknowledge that an organisation can bring to bear,…
After several years as Sales and IT Director at LegalInformation Resources, since 1994 part of Sweet & Maxwell, Derek Sturdycontinues to develop legal database and editorial systems, within the Sweet& Maxwell family, as Product Development Director for Westlaw UK. Did we win the battle, or the war? If any of us were asked to summarise…
Robert Dow is Editor at PLC Publications. He can be contacted atrobdow@lcpub.co.uk. His company’s Website is at www.plc.info.co.uk. Virtually every large UK firm has an internal note giving guidance on how tobuy a company. These notes, although independently prepared, are very similar toeach other – they rarely contain information that is specific to the firm…
Karen Leyshon is a IT Specialist Solicitor with Morgan Cole,based in Reading. On 1 January 1998 the European Directive on Databases was introducedinto UK law by way of the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997. Itwould seem to be a good time now, more than one year later, to reflect on howthe new legislation…
Tamzin Mathews reviews Stephen Mason’s book and highly recommends it….
John Gailey of Advanced Recognition Ltd, Member Scottish GroupCommittee & John Sibbald of Professional Library Services, Chairman of theScottish Group consider the new Scottish Court Web site (www.scotcourts.gov.uk),launched on 24 February, which marked a milestone in the justice system not onlyfor Scotland but for the United Kingdom as a whole. The authors review the siteand…