Delia Venables is a computer consultant for lawyers and is alsoeditor of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers and other Internet publicationsand co-author, with Nick Holmes, of the Butterworths book Researching the LegalWeb. She can be contacted on 01273 472424 or delia@venables.co.ukand her web pages are at http://www.venables.co.uk This article is the second of an occasional…
Andrew Levison is a partner of Grant Thornton and Head ofIS Consultancy and can be contacted at andrew.w.levison@gtuk.com.A version of this article first appeared in Worldlaw Business magazine. ‘When will our firm be dragged into the 20th Century?’… During the lastdecade I have often heard lawyers comment on how frustrated they are with thedevelopment of…
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Frances Coulson is joint Managing Partnerof ShawnCoulson. She has been Litigation Partner of the London firm Moon Beeverfor 11 years. Moon Beever now form the London office of ShawnCoulson. The firmhas offices in London, Washington DC, Hartford Connecticut, Brussels, Lyons,Madrid, Geneva and Luxembourg. New offices are being planned in Paris, Milan,Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, and Athens…
Stephen Mason is a Barrister who specialises in e-commerce,Information Technology and contract law. He is also a consultant to KaltonsSolicitors. Telephone 01462 701098 or 020 7278 1817; email scwm@scwm.co.uk. The fourth edition of his e-book, ‘The Year 2000: A guide tothe legal issues for business’ is available as a free download from www.reachoutmedia.com.The third edition…
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Ben Goodger is a Partner at Willoughby & Partners. He may becontacted at ben@iprights.com ‘A long time ago – maybe last Thursday…’ is how one of the Winnie thePooh stories starts. It’s a bit like that with any discussion of the world ofe-commerce. There are bound to be things in this article which are out-of-dateby…
Delia Venables is a computer consultant for lawyers and also editor of theInternet Newsletter for Lawyers. She can be contacted on 01273 472424 or delia@venables.co.ukand her web pages are at http://www.venables.co.uk/legal/ This article explains some of the trends and ‘buzzwords’ currentlyassociated with developments on the Internet. Some of these are associated thedevelopment of e-commerce –…
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