Rowe & Maw believes that it is the first UK law firm to develop a legal KM portal to be rolled out on a practice-wide basis across the firm. Dr Karen Cleaver, Project Manager at Rowe &Maw, explains how KnowMaw was developed….
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Andrew Haslam describes how Lovells designed, built and launched their latest Web site….
Nostalgia corner Rememberlast year, last century. We had all been awaiting the effect of the date changefrom 1999 to 2000. Law firms had formed task forces and many articles books andWeb sites devoted themselves to anticipating the flood of litigation. Where didit all go and what happened to it? Theconventional explanation is that the world,…
Continuing our look at IT law from different international perspectives, Dr Jean Paul van Marissing considers the effect of EU competition law on commercial Internet values. His article asks whether some windows ofopportunity are closed by the effects of competition restrictions….
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What happens when an IT project is cancelled? Clive Freedman and David Quest look at the legal issues and the rights and liabilities of the parties….
Last year, in the United States, the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) was passed at a federal level. At the time of writing,it had been adopted in two states and will be in force in Maryland from 1October of this year. It is expected that other states will shortly follow suit.Kit Burden and Creole Palmer explain what you need to know about it….
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The Scottish Group (now the Scottish Society for Computers and Law) has chosen the theme of Human Rights and IT as the common thread running through the main part of its 2000/2001 series of meetings….
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A new organisation has been created in Scotland. Here’s a brief explanation of the reasons for the establishment of the Scottish Society for Computers & Law….
Safe Harbors On 27 July the EU accepted, by a Commission decision, that organisations in the US which adopt arrangements for the protection of personal data which conform to a set of agreed standards will be accepted as providing adequate protection for the purposes of personal data transfer from the EU. The concept (and spelling)…
Dr Oliver Zander of Beiten Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener provides a brief guide to recent developments in Germany….