Scottish Group: 10th Anniversary
John Sibbald of Professional Library Services, Chair of the Scottish Group, reports on the Group’s Annual Lecture and Supper….
Intellectual Property
A Glimpse of the Future (a web of unnatural laws)
Peter Cochrane is Head of BT Research Laboratories.
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From Conception to Birth – a Rotherham firm’s technology quest
Christine Yates is IT Manager at Oxley & Coward of Rotherham….
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Investing in Computers – Using Surveys to Obtain the Comfort Factor
David Higdon is a registered Law Society consultant for the provision of strategic computer and Lexcel consultancy to legal practices.He isa partner in James & Cowper and a leading member of their legal servicesteam. He can be contacted by telephone on 01189 590261 or by e-mail at dhigdon@jamescowper.co.uk….
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Obtaining Computer Skills
Delia Venables is a computer consultant specialising in the legal market. This article is a version of one of her 1998 series of Nuggetts.Delia also writes the Guide to the Internet for Lawyers and the InternetNewsletter for Lawyers. She can be contacted on 01273 472424 or at delia@venables.co.uk….
Securing Domain Name Registrations
Nicholas Wood is a director of Net Searchers International Ltd, the UK based company which assists brand and trademark specialists to protect intellectual property on the Internet through audits, searching, monitoring, tracking and registrations….
Consequential Loss and IT Lawyers
Richard Harrison uses the recent British Sugar case to take stock of a potentially confusing area of law. Richard is a litigation partner in Laytons and can be contacted on 0171 842 8000 or rmh@laytons.com….
IT and the English Courts
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Brooke is President of the Society for Computers and Law….
Rare Breed
Angela Brewster is a specialist in recruiting IT professionals for the legal environment at PSD Information Systems. She may be contacted on 0171 970 9700 or at anb@psdgroup.com….
Y2K and EMU: NCC Sounds Alarm
The National Computing Centre (NCC) is advising software users that they may be putting their businesses at risk, despite substantial Y2K planning. It warns that all businesses which use third-party software should be deeply concerned, and should take decisive action now to protect themselves. As a result, it is putting forward its Escrow 2000 service…