Employee IT Inventors: Sharing in the profits?
Dr Rosanna Cooper looks at proposed changes to the UK Patents Act 1977 and reviews the current law on employee inventors….
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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Changing your Outsourcing Deal Midstream – the Perils and the Pitfalls
John C. Buyers, a Director in KLegal’s London Technology Department, examins the legal effect of haphazard changes which take place in the real world to the carefully crafted contracts which underpin outsourcing. He also indicates the best approach to avoiding such disasters….
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Neckbytes – Dracula, Computers and Law
Richard Harrison examines the role of technology and the legal profession in Dracula’s English ventures….
The Impact of the Internet on the Provision of Legal Services
Technological developments are often launched amid a barrage of publicity about how they will change our lives. Many fail to live up to the initial hype. The Internet is one technological development which has fully matched (and exceeded) initial expectations. It has fundamentally altered the way in which we do business and is now a core facility used in everyday business life. Jonathan Maas looks at how the Internet has been and is being used to change the way in which legal services are provided and considers how it may change working practices in the future, how it affects lawyer/client relationships and what opportunities it offers for law firms to deliver services more effectively….
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Trends in Outsourcing from a Legal Perspective
Outsourcing is of major importance commercially, and especially important in the IT sector. Outsourcing as a business practice has grown rapidly over the last decade. Bill Jones of Wragge & Co considers current trends in outsourcing from a legal perspective….
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Books on Building Your Website
Jon Vogler looks at leading texts which help with building a Web site….
The Knowledge Management of External Content
Chris Knowles of Vrisko asks whether law firms have been seriously over-investing in “Big Technology” knowledge management systems to capture, store and manage their internal knowhow. Are they neglecting systems now available, at a far lower cost, to help them gain more value from their substantial investments in tried and tested legal and business information, from publishers such as Butterworths, Sweet and Maxwell, PLC and LexisNexis?…
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Gloom, doom and Gutnick
The implications of Dow Jones & Company Inc v Gutnick [1] are reviewed by Megan Macgregor, Senior Lawyer, and Mark Vincent, Managing Partner, of Griffins Information Technology and Intellectual Property Lawyers. [2]…
Predictions for 2003
We asked a number of legal IT experts to offer their predictions for 2003….
Putting the Bite on e-business
Fiona Ghosh explains how the UK’s web of e-commerce regulations continues to grow….