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News and resources from the Legastat team

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 twenty-first century was likely to alight on other aspects of our judicial system.

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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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edisclosure employment law

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Alternative Use of eDiscovery: Employment Law

eDiscovery technologies are being increasingly recognised as a crucial legal tool – and something of a Swiss army knife, at that, with numerous...

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Bring Your Own Device electronic disclosure

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Bring Your Own Device

Already tired of your iPad mini, or your Galaxy S4 with its photos-with-sound gadgetry? Unimpressed by the Google glass technology, and jonesing for...

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