Posts under ‘law firms’

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 [...]

When a key player in the Government’s plans to strengthen the IP framework, encourages business owners to file their own trade marks, explaining this is to help them afford trade mark registration, I wonder what’s going on. Many lawyers educate the public about the value of taking legal advice.  So, it is somewhat surprising for [...]

Tweet ups are when we take our online relationships offline and meet the faces behind the avatars. There is an appetite for more regular tweet ups so, later in this blog, I’ll mention some ideas for a trial run of regular London tweet ups. @Legalaware who was very quick off the mark reporting the recent [...]

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 [...]

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 considerations The impetus behind it was the Solicitors’ Code of Conduct Rules 8 and 9 which prohibit fee sharing with non lawyers, and regulate [...]

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 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 [...]

Before considering what start ups require from their lawyers, it’s worth remembering that many businesses tend to change radically in the early years.  A few years after starting up, they may look nothing like their initial manifestation. This is because it’s common for new businesses to not know what it is exactly that they do, [...]

Last week nine websites that allowed people to download or stream TV programmes and films for free were closed down (see here), their domains seized by the US federal government.  These sites included tvshack.net, Movies-Links.tv, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.coms along with five others. These sites were  targeted as part of a new initiative, aimed at combating Internet [...]