February / March 2006 Online Course
(Course code HW/SFCL31 – 1 hour)…
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Information at Your Fingertips
Adam Westbrooke explains how drumming your fingers on the dashboard while keeping alert to changes in the traffic lights will help buy you a Porsche (or yet another Porsche)….
Podcasts and Video Blogs: Exploring New Ways to Communicate
Justin Patten’s Human Law has just introduced podcasting and video blogging. This article seeks to explain the rationale behind his firm doing this and how to go about it….
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Predictions 2006: The Future of Documents
Chris Spencer looks at DOC, PDF and XML – The Future of Documents as revealed through Acronyms….
Predictions 2006: A Challenging Year
Justin North sees lots of hard work for legal IT directors and the legal IT industry in 2006…
LSSA Research: Drivers for Change
The Legal Software Suppliers Association has commissioned a new survey in an attempt to establish what the drivers for change in law and technology are likely to be in the coming years…
PISCES: The Way Forward
Laurence Eastham spoke to Roger De Boehmler, Director General of PISCES (the Property Information Systems Common Exchange Standard), about the future of the standard and the barriers in the way of a further acceleration in progress….
System Selection
All organisations purchase new IT systems from time to time, from desktop applications to major networked systems. While hardware forms an important (and often expensive) part of any solution, it does not tend to be a major difference between solutions; the selection of the software however is always critical to the project. Adam Westbrooke looks at the best way to ensure that firms get the most appropriate software for their needs….
SCL Essay Prize
The winner of the £1,000 SCL Essay Prize is Frazer Hanrahan of Queen’s University Belfast….
What makes you so special?
David Randall, software architect of the InQuisita Law chambers management solution, continues the debate regarding generic vs specific software after the gauntlet was thrown down in a recent issue. David looks at the role of software in barrister’s chambers highlighting some similarity with commercial applications. However, there are many unique business practices that drive the need for chambers specific solutions….