Internet Contracting
Internet Contracting…
Internet Contracting…
Christopher Millard is a Partner in the Media, Computer and Communications Group at Clifford Chance and a Senior Visiting Fellow of QMW University of London….
Delia Venables is a computer consultant specialising in the legal area. As well as advising firms individually and writing extensively onthe Internet, she produces IT articles which she calls ‘Nuggets’ on topicslike case management, voice recognition, obtaining computer skills, Year 2000issues and similar topics. Tel: 01273 472424 or e-mail: delia@venables.co.uk. Charles Christian is a former practising barrister turnedindependent legal technology writer and analyst. He is the publisher of thefortnightly newsletter Legal Technology Insider and author of Legal Practice inthe Digital Age and the Law Society’s new book Year 2000 Compliance – alawyer’s guide to surviving the millennium bug. Tel: 01379 687518 or e-mail: info@legaltechnology.co.uk….
Extensive research being carried out by Practical Solutions on behalf of the LSSA has examined a number of aspects of the use of legal IT but its main focus has been on wider issues. Allan Carton shares some of the first impressions and examines the potential impact of the new business structures that will probably soon become possible for delivering legal services – the “Alternative Business Structure” or “ABS”. The results of the research are being presented and discussed in early February at “The Future of Legal Practice” conference….
An independent study into the changing habits of UK companies has revealed thatmany will have to cross a huge chasm before they are technologically safe,legally sound and properly insured against the risks of business use of e-mailand the Internet….
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Antony Smith is IT Co-ordinator at the School of Law, King’s College London. He may be contacted at antony.smith@kcl.ac.uk.He reports on a one-day seminar hosted by the CTI Law Technology Centre at theUniversity of Warwick on 22 June 1998….
John Mawhood is a Partner in the IT and Telecommunications Group of Tarlo Lyons….
Year 2000: Law and Liability by Susan Singleton, Sweet & Maxwell, 1998. £99.
Countdown to 2000: A Guide to the Legal Issues by Halberstam Elias & Co, Butterworths, 1998. £45…
Outsourcing IT – The Legal Aspects by Rachel Burnett, Gower, 235 pages, hardback….
Take the SCL official test below, devised by Andy Lucas,to see if you really were justified in not attending. Andrew Lucas is asolicitor in Eversheds Birmingham computer law unit specialising innon-contentious IT law. He may be e-mailed at AndrewLucas@eversheds.co.uk….
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