Online billing set for national rollout

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Online Billing Set for National Rollout

Few things are likely to endear tech innovations to lawyers – and to all professionals – than streamlining payment systems. Good news, then, from the government, which is looking to expand online billing systems for criminal lawyers northwards.

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Divorce traditional legal practice

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Let’s call the whole thing off. Quickly

There are few clients more keen to bring a swift end to proceedings than a divorcing couple. With that in mind, a Canadian company has come up with...

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Legal IT: the means, and not the end

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Legal IT: the means, and not the end

It appears the time is coming when the most misanthropic of us will finally meet our objective to never leave the house if it can possibly be helped.

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Right to be forgotten

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The Right to be Forgotten

Rarely has a piece of EU legislation sounded so very much like an existential crisis pondered in smoky cafés by intense young Parisians in black...

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Copping on to legal tech

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Copping on to Legal Tech

Legal industry observers keenly watching the march of technological progress across the profession may well have paused to wonder when the...

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Cut Price Legal Aid

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Cut Price?

The effects of the Ministry of Justice’s 30% cut to Legal Aid fees have been widely reported – and, perhaps justifiably, deplored. The historic...

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Quality Assured

Few regulatory changes have provoked quite such a stir as theQuality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA). The ongoing row over the controversial...

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The Paper Trail

Legal dramas thrive on courtroom scenes. Who is not familiar with the plucky, blonde (and frequently Northern) defence barrister wittily scoring...

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Sad Mondays

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Happy Mondays

Lawyers returning to work this week might have spotted newspapers reporting that this Monday was officially the most depressing day of the year....

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Twitter and edisclosure

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The Bluebird Sings: Twitter and eDiscovery

Last year’s ruling by a Manhattan judge that Twitter must release tweets deleted by a user charged with criminal activity during the Occupy Wall...

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