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Foreword by our site’s Founder, Gav Ward: In my travels in the legal sector, one of the most underrated legal
Are you drawn to helping families through legal challenges? Becoming a family lawyer in the UK could be the perfect
As reported by legal technology journalist and lawyer, Bob Ambrogi here https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/legalpioneer-donates-its-dataset-of-13k-legal-tech-companies-to-github.html , Legalpioneer, a platform that catalogs companies in
Insights on what constitutes a personal injury, with reference to Canadian personal injury law and general legal principles. Always take
Handling deposition summaries, or “depo summaries,” is one of those tasks that sounds straightforward but often turns into a time-consuming
Legal blog post based on personal injury and workplace accident law and rights mainly based on US law and generally.
Jonathan Lea, London-based corporate lawyer and business adviser, recently kindly invited me to join him on a Google+ hangout (a
Social Media for Lawyers: How to achieve your online goals without throwing away chargeable hours. from Ward Blawg Earlier this
I am delighted to announce that ScotsLawBlog has been named as one of LexisNexis’ Top 25 International & Foreign Law Blogs
I spoke recently in my capacity as Search and Social Media Marketing Manager at Moore Legal Technology on Wednesday in Inverness
Gavin Ward was speaking at Social Media Week at the Business Banter on the subject of “Social Media Marketing &
Looking towards 2012, many young lawyers and trainee solicitors should no longer be looking merely to survive, but instead to thrive and advance their careers. Aside from the most important approach of getting the head down and doing the legal work, utilising social media, through blogging, Twitter and Linkedin, can produce some powerful results.
On Wednesday 16 March 2011 I was lucky enough to attend one of the legal networking events of the year in London. Hosted by Brian Inkster and Linda Cheung the tweetup, which is the technical term for a twitter meetup, had 77 Twegals RSVPing
Although founded back in 2009, Google has now launched major updates to its Social Search, which integrates information from Twitter, Flickr and Quora in searches.
Below are my top 10 twitter tips for law firms and solicitors looking to get the most from twitter. There are many more detailed tips that could be shared, but for the firms and lawyers starting out or looking to improve their social media presence and capabilities to expand their professional network and develop more business, these should be an ideal starting point which should hopefully a love-love relationship with the social media world.
WardblawG’s twitter account made an appearance on Channel 4 on Saturday night, 12 February 2011.
Channel 4’s approach to social media is to be welcomed, encouraging use throughout the UK of both Twitter and Facebook to contribute to prime-time tv programmes. With tweeting becoming enabled from the UK courts, with certain important exceptions, we are slowly venturing into a golden age for social media, web 2.0 and law 2.0.
Last month, we were mentioned in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland by Iain Nisbet of Govan Law Centre, who himself runs a Scots law blawg at http://absolvitor.com/. Given that this website was created only in June 2010, this is to be considered a great achievement at what is still just the beginning of this blawg’s journey through the blawgosphere, alongside the other 10 great Scots blawggers mentioned and the blawgging world as a whole. The extract from the Journal Online is as follows:-
Tommy Sheridan has been jailed for three years following his conviction in December of committing perjury during his News of the World defamation action. In sentencing Sheridan, Lord Bracadale said “By pursuing a defamation action against the News of the World, you brought the walls of the temple crashing down”
There has been much written on the best ways to study law. From personal experience, it was difficult to get first class grades in law exams without utilising the tool of mindmaps. The man credited with the invention of the mindmap is Tony Buzan. The below information details personal experience of their use, not necessarily Tony’s experiences.
It may be argued that none of these were quite as menacing as the first tweet by Paul Chambers, but if the English judiciary is to stand by its precedent, then why has no further enforcement taken place? The reason is that society, which takes a place in any legal system, has revolted against what is surely one of the most misguided pieces of judicial reasoning of the 21st century, principally due to the common failure of the law being able to keep up with technology.