This article was first published in the January/February edition of the Internet Newsletter.
In this short series I have looked at Quality Solicitors, a very new player run by a barrister for solicitors, and Contact Law, a non solicitor run organisation which started in 2005. LawNet is very different from both of these.
Started in 1989 [...]
I spent much of last year studying and reading about social media and how it works. This year it is time to put some of this into practice.
I have therefore started an experimental new service for lodger landlords. My existing service, Landlord Law, does cater for people renting a room to a lodger, but lodger [...]
Contact Law are big players in the solicitors referral field. The company was started in 2005 by James Vintin and Dan Watkins as they felt that there was an opening for a service to help members of the public find a suitable solicitor. They were also interested in developing services to help solicitors deal with [...]
If one door closes …
In his book The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the nature of legal services Richard Susskind predicts that the current structure and method of working in legal firms cannot last, and that traditional legal practice is due for big changes over the next 20 years.
A report in the Times today seems to indicate that this day [...]
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