Firm shows off Windows form software Stationery group Oyez recently launched its new legal forms software at the Software for Solicitors exhibition. The Windows software for legal forms was previously marketed by Kedge. Oyez adapted the software for its own use. City firm Denton Hall currently uses Laserform, which is the market leader in electronic […]
No trade mark infringement by book title of same name Bravado Merchandising Services v Mainstream Publishing (Edinburgh). Outer House of the Court of Session (Lord McCluskey) 11/10/95. Summary: No infringement of the trade mark ‘Wet Wet Wet’ by use of those words in the title of a book about the pop group of that name. […]
Linda Tsang reports Strathclyde University Law School has launched its LLM in Legal Informatics course into cyberspace. It is believed to be the first course to do this. The university’s postgraduate course in information technology law has switched its method of instruction to electronic distance learning. A database of over 25Mb of electronic teaching materials […]
The first consideration when setting up a financial services department is set-up costs. The Law Society recommends that a financial services executive should be employed on a basic salary but with a bonus system based on performance. Our experience has shown that the guaranteed basic is vital and will help to secure a quality person. […]
Born in London in 1963, Moni Mannings was called to the Bar in 1984 and requalified as a solicitor in 1988. She is a senior assistant in the banking and capital markets department at Simmons & Simmons. What was your first job? Manning the school secretary’s phone during lunchtime, two days a week, aged 10. […]
The article by Charles Elly in your issue of 14 November (‘Is it time to split up the society?’) makes fascinating reading. Earlier this year, I sent a paper to the legal press, pointing out that the legal profession was fragmenting. I am pleased to observe that Mr Elly supports that view. I suggested that […]
Last week the Law Society received the second in a series of research reports by the Policy Studies Institute on patterns of entry into the legal profession. The research follows 4,000 law students from starting university to the end of their first year in practice. The survey has reached the point where students are applying […]
Had the Bar Council leadership had the common sense to trust its own members it might have been saved the humiliation of losing the vote at the General Meeting on Tuesday. Implementing a new complaints procedure was never going to be popular and once it became apparent there was a concerted campaign to destroy the […]
There has been no shortage of speculation regarding the social and economic implications of the explosive growth of on-line services and the Internet. Much of the comment is ill-informed, analytically weak, or both. Confusion is perhaps inevitable given that most people watching or reading media reports on the subject will never have used any type […]
Linda Tsang reports Eversheds’ Cardiff office has implemented a mortgage enforcement system in its banking and finance department. The SolCase Windows case management system was installed by Solicitec in just 17 days to coincide with the acquisition of a major new client. John Simmons, manager of the mortgage enforcement department at the Cardiff office, said: […]
Planning inquiries have long been a source of frustration for all those involved in the process. The absence of sanctions for failure to comply with the pre-inquiry timetable and disclosure requirements has meant statements of case, required soon after an appeal has been lodged, are often ill-prepared and late. This means the other side’s case […]
Linda Tsang reports SOPHISTICATED IT systems are forming part of an arsenal of weapons enabling regional practices to compete with their City counterparts. Birmingham firm Martineau Johnson recently demonstrated the benefits of its newly-installed document management system at a presentation attended by the firm’s clients and intermediaries. These included representatives from Coopers & Lybrand, KPMG […]