Categorising information: a product, goods or a service?
This essay won the SCL Essay Prize for Frazer Hanarahan….
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Lawtech & Lawyers
Who goes there?
Simon Ratcliffe of Dimension Data describes identity management and explains its importance and how it might pay for itself….
E-Filing
Robert Unslow explains why e-filing is inevitable and suggests ways to make its advance more welcome. He also calls on SCL members to join the debate on e-filing….
LSSA: Interview with Barry Hawley-Green
Laurence Eastham talked to Barry Hawley-Green, the new Chairman of the Legal Software Suppliers Association, about his role, the future of the organisation, legal practice and IT – and all manner of related topics….
Predictions 2005: Ups and Downs
From Charles Christian, former practising barrister turned independent legal IT writer, commentator and industry analyst. Among many other claims to fame, he is the editor of Legal Technology Insider newsletter: www.legaltechnology.com…
Risky Business
The attention focused on corporate governance and professional responsibility within all organisations is at an all time high. This has been driven by the collapse of some well known organisations and the need to visibly be regulating organisations more closely. This has forced risk management and compliance even higher up the agenda of law firms….
Editorial
The most cursory flip through this issue will reveal that it devotes many of its pages to disclosure of electronic documents. Not only do we have Terry Harrison’s short article and a lengthy account of the recent report of the Commercial Court Working Party chaired by Mr Justice Cresswell but the article by His Honour…
Online Licensing of Entertainment and Information
Clive Davies reviews and comments upon the current state of online licensing of software and the associated legal implications and addresses the new models for the distribution of software as a service available on demand. He also contrasts some of the legal and other issues that apply to software with other online media in the music and film area….
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Sympathy for the Devil?
John Yates makes a plea for tolerance and understanding….
W(h)ither AI and Law?
At first sight, law and the provision of legal advice seems the ideal ground for the application of artificial intelligence. Alastair Morrison wonders whether the AI promise is at last edging towards realisation and asks serious questions about its current relevance….