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Embracing Technology in the Changing Legal Landscape

Dee Caporali reports on recently commissioned research that highlights how changing technology will affect businesses over the next decade. Combined with deregulation in the legal sector and evolving business models, this means firms are facing tough decisions. ‘The future of technology: transforming mid-market business operations’, which was produced by The Centre for Future Studies to mark Access’ 20th anniversary, takes a look at what is in store for organisations….

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2012 Predictions 4: Practitioner’s Prognostications

Time to hear from a group of practitioners, focusing mainly on IT law issues but including a look at our developing relationship with tablets, smartphones and other new ways of living too. Think of this as the bag of luxury chocolate gold coins that you ate instead of putting them on the tree. Read the predictions from Stewart Room, Kit Burden, Emma Brownlow-Smith, Jon Bloor, Paul Gershlick and David Lewis…

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Creating an Online Legal Tool

Laurence Eastham talked to two new entrants in the still emerging field of online solutions to legal problems for consumers. Tom Hiskey and Rob Blake are the founders of The Law Wizard, the company behind forthcoming online probate tool The Probate Wizard. Tom is a probate lawyer who resigned from his job as a practising solicitor in the Yorkshire region to start The Law Wizard with Rob. Rob provides the technical vision – he is a specialist in cloud computing and system development….

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