Any lawyer worth his or her salt will want to keep reading to quality material to stay up to date with developments in the law and beyond.
A great resource is The Internet Newsletter For Lawyers by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables.
I have met both of them; They are good people. They attract strong loyalty in the legal profession.
The current edition includes:
1. Legal OnRamp is a collaboration system for in-house counsel and invited outside lawyers. There are now more than 8,000 members worldwide, including 2,000 private law practitioners eager to display their knowledge to this powerful audience. Jordan Furlong tells us what is going on.
2. Daniel Barnett tells us why lawyers should not just read other peoples' blogs - but should blog themselves. He tells us some of the benefits of doing this, gives us some useful do's and don'ts for blogging and describes some of his favourite legal blogs.
3. Joe Reevy gives some practical advice for writing marketing material - how to be precise about defining the audience being sought, how to develop the material for that audience, how to (discretely) leverage material you have already and how to present it in the most accessible form. And active editing of the material is crucial!
4. Sue Bramall wrote last time about the practicalities of capturing suitable contact details for an email marketing list and who you can, or cannot, email. This time she continues with how to choose the emailing system (and why using Outlook is not good enough), how to manage the system and how to plan the campaign of what you actually want to do.
5. Brian Inkster describes some of the innovations in the new Inksters web site including using Twitter to tell potential house purchasers about new properties coming on the market, enabling house hunters to note interest online, allowing clients to pay online, and giving visitors a chance to win an Apple iPod nano.
6. Sweet & Maxwell have been redeveloping their main site, as well as LegalHub over the last couple of years. Asomi Ithia describes how they did it and what is now available on the site.
7. James Couzens thinks that voice recognition is now easy to use and he describes the choice of product, what is involved in installation and training, how he actually uses the system and what it has enabled him to do.
8. Stephen Moore describes how the free Scottish service CaseCheck has now expanded to cover the 9000 case summaries provided in Law Brief Update - and has thereby expanded to cover the UK as a whole and also EU material.
To get more information on subscribing I suggest you contact Nick Holmes.