The British blawg / law blog Welcome to the June 2011 UK Blawg review, a quarterly round up of British Blawgs (legal blogs) and discussion. In the last Blawg Reivew, Brian Inkster took the past as his theme. Speaking from his newly materialised Time Blawg, he took us on a journey back into the mists…
The Copywriting Phrasebook Words. My life is made up of words. I read them, I write them, I speak them and (professionally) I interpret them. As a writer and a lawyer they are the tools of my trade. And yet there are still times when I stop mid way through a blog post halted by…
This is the sort of business book I might have written myself, had I thought of it. Although I run a legal business and not a software company, a lot of the book resonated with me. For a long time I have shut my eyes and done things my way, ignoring what you are ‘supposed’…
The Legal Web Are you feeling ignorant about the internet. Worried about wikis? Baffled by blogs? Or intimidated by twitter? You need a bit of professional training and guidance. Allow me to introduce the answer. This is the new ebook and CPD course from Nick and Delia on Modern Practice Topics for Solicitors. Nick and…
In my change of direction post, I said I had been reading a few books. I thought it might be nice to tell you about some of them. This is good for me too as it gets me to look through them again. I read somewhere, a long time ago, that when you first read…
When I wrote my earlier post here, I said I had been doing a lot of research. In this post I set out some of the sites that I have been using. Probably the best blogging site is Problogger which is written by Australian blogger Darren Rowse. He is a full time professional blogger who…
I recently listened to an interesting webcast of an interview of Richard Susskind here. Susskind is promoting his new book, The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the nature of legal services, having written several groundbreaking books on the use of IT and technology in the internet in the past. Susskind covers quite a wide range of…
Anyone in the legal profession who is at all interested in the development of legal services on the internet should sign up for the Internet Newsletter (full name internet Newsletter for Lawyers & Law 2.). Run for many years by the superb Delia Venables (who runs the best legal links site on the internet) it…
