E-Business – A Practical Guide to the Law by Amanda C. Brock
A review of a new book from Amanda C. Brock by Helen Hart….
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Privacy & Data Protection
Offshore Outsourcing – Learning From Experience
Outsourcing continues to be a high growth activity for many UK businesses, especially in relation to IT and telecoms functions. All the surveys researching the drivers for outsourcing appear to confirm that the main one continues to be the need to reduce cost in order to remain competitive. For the moment at least the most…
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Challenges to Database Information Retrieval
Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….
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E-Business Basics for Law Firms
Keith Arrowsmith reviews the latest offering from Christina Archbold….
Solutions Snippets!
Cyber-Risks specialist, Rupert Kendrick, highlights some practical IT solutions for lawyers and law firms. E-mail: RupertKendrick@aol.com…
Bar Council Knowledge Management Guidelines
The Bar Council has recently published guidelines concerning the incorporation of counsels’ advice to clients into knowledge management systems created by firms of solicitors for their own internal use for the benefit of other clients. Kirsten Houghton of 4 Essex Court explains….
Securing the Security Standard
In the light of recent reports that the DTI is considering imposing the ISO17799 information security management standard as mandatory, IT & E-commerce lawyers Nigel Wildish and Viv Nissanka of Field Fisher Waterhouse argue the case for compliance….
Northern Lights and the SCL Boot Camp
The SCL Boot Camp is back. The 2003 Boot Camp is 20/21 June at the Manchester Conference Centre….
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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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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