December 3, 2010

Those with their fingers on the pulse of the legal services industry are predicting significant changes in the marketplace.  Whether this shift is down to the recession, technological developments, regulatory changes, or all...

December 13, 2010

Hargreaves Review
In a message to the Hargreaves Review team last week Jeremy Phillips suggested a few practitioners, including myself, whose perspective may be of interest to Tom Loosemore.   Although I had...

December 26, 2010

Wikileaks has taken centre stage in the media recently, and continues to be a growing source of controversy.  Opinions are divided over whether or not the activities of the organisation are legitimate, but on a more neutral...

January 10, 2011

A Business’ IP is often the most valuable asset it generates.  So just neglecting to protect your IP in these recessionary times when budgets are tight can have adverse and long term implications—especially if...

January 19, 2011

Last week Azrights announced the launch of its trademark registration white labelling solution for law firms.  It is the first comprehensive trademark white labelling service for UK law firms.

UK Regulatory...

January 20, 2011

In April, Shireen Smith will be giving a  conference on Marketing and Brand Development for Law Firms. This conference will discuss the future of the legal profession and “How can law firms market and brand themselves...

January 24, 2011

Organising big events involving members of the public from all over the world has been transformed by social media.

In particular social media has become a powerful tool for organising protests and broadcasting responses to...

February 1, 2011

In this Webinar, Shireen Smith covers what’s involved when creating an outstanding online brand, so that you can get to grips with the issues before you commission your website.

The first part of the webinar is available as...

February 1, 2011

Open source software (OSS) is defined by Wikipedia as:

Computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a...

February 3, 2011

As explained in this press release we saw a need to offer a ‘virtual trade mark registration’ service for law firms due to the SRA Conduct Rules 8 and 9 (which prohibit fee sharing with non lawyers...

February 8, 2011

The Premier League is the world’s most watched and most lucrative football league in terms of revenue.  So, revenue from television rights is vitally important to it.

The Football Association Premier League ltd. (FAPL)...