The Aussies have done it again! Not satisfied with trouncing Cook’s boys 5-0 in the recent Ashes series (I prefer not to mention the one day series and the T20, poor as they were, because it is the result of the five match Ashes series which hurts), the New South Wales Attorney General has announced that a Virtual Registry is now… Read More »
In various posts last year I highlighted the views of Casey Flaherty, General Counsel of Kia Motors America, Inc. Casey espouses the view that lawyers who want to work for his company need to understand that the world has changed and that with it comes the responsibility to understand the contribution which technology can make… Read More »
Over the past weeks, my email inbox has been inundated with advertisements for products, invitations to events and parties and general exhortations to visit this booth and that at Legal Tech 2014. The event is taking place this week in New York. Billed as the premier legal technology show on Earth, the gathering takes place at the Hilton… Read More »
A little later than normal, I have remembered it is the time of year for predictions. Usually this happens in December or early January so, on any view, I am a fraction late this year. The Society of Computers and Law publishes predictions gleaned from a number of people in the IT and E discovery industry… Read More »
“It is too soon to say.” Attributed to the former Chinese Premier, Chou en Lai (or Zhou Enlai), this response was, probably erroneously, thought to have referred to the effect of the 1789 French Revolution! These days, it appears to be more widely accepted that the words referred to the street protests in France and… Read More »
I have recently finished reading “Tomorrow’s Lawyers” by Richard Susskind. If you are interested in the practice of law in the future, I urge you to read this book. As a commentator on the law and lawyers, Richard Susskind is thought provoking and fascinating with eloquent views on the future of the profession of law and tomorrow’s… Read More »
Two items caught my eye recently. One is old news. The Lawyer of November 25th came out with more statistics to support the view that we are training far too many lawyers for the jobs available. In round figures, the magazine talks about 14000 students chasing 5000 places. This is not a new phenomenon of… Read More »
The past week has seen Hallowe’en and Bonfire Night. Ghouls and spooks and the sometimes dubious game of trick or treat abound which shows how much has changed in this country since the days when virtually no one in England took any notice of Hallowe’en (although my understanding is that north of the border, the Scots… Read More »
The new Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is already out of the starting blocks! Taking office at the start of October, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (a small village in the Brecon Beacons) addressed the members of Gray’s Inn on October 21st. Delivering the annual Birkenhead lecture, he sought to address the issues facing the… Read More »
I have just returned from the Fall conference of the LCA (Litigation Counsel of America), a group of eminent trial and litigation lawyers from the United States and Canada which Millnet has been proud to sponsor for the past few years. The event was held at one of the most extraordinary hotels I have been to. The… Read More »