Posts under ‘hybrid lawyers’

In this post I’m going to offer some information that I think might be quite useful to you when you’re establishing a new business or product. You’re likely to be thinking about a name, commissioning a website and logo to launch it, and considering how you will market it and so on. Relatively few people [...]

In advance of the next Tweetinglegals tweet up on 17 Jan here are a few pieces of information that might interest those attending. The venue Old Bank of England, is mid way between Chancery Lane and Bell’s Yard in Fleet Street. As you walk into the grand pub room bear right towards the bar, and [...]

Twitter is a great medium for stimulating debate, and an excellent forum for meeting new and like minded people. In terms of relationships,  Twitter is essentially a forum for meeting others.  You have to take that virtual meeting off line if you want to begin to create a real relationship.  As they say on Twitter [...]

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 of these combined, Azrights is ready with a cutting edge solution for clients interested in minimizing their legal fees while continuing to [...]

Yesterday in our November newsletter we mentioned the Legal Services Act (sign up to receive future editions using the form on the right), and how from October 2011 the Act will allow non-law businesses to own a stake in law firms.  This is expected to signal the full entry into the legal services market of [...]

In earlier posts we have written about the continuing battle between file sharing members of the public and the record and film industries, covering their attempts to discouraging infringement through legal action, and digital rights management technology.  We have also reported on the seizure of domain names pointing to websites that encourage infringement.  Despite these [...]

The IPKAT reported recently that the BBC is preparing to take the publishing company HarperCollins to court over a book that reveals the identity of the Stig from Top Gear. The Stig never removes his helmet on the show, concealing his identity. The identity of the Stig’s character has been kept a secret for the [...]

In previous posts I have commented both on the ‘End of Lawyers?’- a book by Richard Susskind and also on the Legal Services Act, which are two commonly discussed items by those interested in the UK law business landscape. In the ‘End of Lawyers? The Legal Hybrid is already here‘  my message was I already [...]

In their article earlier this year, the Ipkat drew attention to the fact that there is a marked separation between the worlds of trade marks and branding. More often than not the two are not addressed collectively, but are rather dealt with by completely separate teams, or even distinct organisations.  A creative team might deal [...]

Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes comprise a wide range of techniques used to restrict the use of hardware, software and media – allowing publishers broad control over how the software is used by licensees.   Game publishers are increasingly making use of these schemes in their attempts to combat videogame piracy.  However, these efforts have significant [...]