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LawSync: Navigating the ‘Blue Oceans’ Within the ‘Emerging’ Legal Services Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Pete Smith ,
Richard Whittle  and
Peter Griffith
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Abstract

Change, it is said, is the only constant. Whilst it cannot be avoided, the worlds of legal education and legal services have arguably enjoyed an extended period where the impact of change has been comparatively minimal. Today, these worlds face significant changes due to a combination of market and regulatory forces. True, such changes are likely to be accompanied by challenges but with these challenges come opportunities. There is no reason why Law Schools and Law students cannot help to shape these changes and benefit from them. Peter Smith, Richard Whittle and Peter Griffith discuss LawSync™, a project that seeks to enable such influence and attract such benefits at Sheffield Hallam University. See http://www.lawsync.com and http://twitter.com/lawsync for more details.

Keywords

regulationlegal professionlegal education
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 203 - 209
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 See http://www.lawsync.com and http://twitter.com/lawsync for more details

2 http://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/freedom-in-practice/alt-bs/licensed-body-register.page

3 http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/legal-services-act/alternative-business-structures/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-abs-applicatons-but-were-literally-afraid-to-ask

4 http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/keep-on-trucking-eddie-stobart-enters-legal-services-market-yes-really

5 See http://www.lawsync.com/2012/05/25/emerging-markets-and-lawsync/ and accompanying responses.

6 http://www.lawsync.com/2012/04/05/do-you-have-a-reservation-2/

7 See Susskind, R (2010) Legal informatics – a personal appraisal of context and progress. European journal of law and technology 1(1). Online at http://ejlt.org/article/view/18/7

8 For an interesting blog post by Stephen Allen highlighting the likely importance of what he terms ‘Professional Quotient’ in such the ‘legal industry’ that is likely to replace the legal profession see: http://www.lexfuturus.com/mind-your-pqs/

9 Kimbro, S (2012) Regulatory barriers to the growth of multijurisdictional virtual law firms and potential first steps to their removal. North Carolina journal of law & technology 13, 165–225, pp 175–177Google Scholar

10 http://www.euclaim.co.uk/

11 Regulation (EC) no 261/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004, establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 295/91.

12 See http://www.sra.org.uk/documents/students/academic-stage/jasb-handbook-september-2011.pdf p8 for the list of Foundation subjects

13 See for example Huxley-Binns, R (2011) What is the “Q” for? The Law Teacher 45(3), 294–309CrossRefGoogle Scholar

14 See Discussion Paper 01/2012, ‘Key Issues (1): Call for Evidence’, Legal Education Training Review at para 100.

15 See http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/lt/publicinfo/kis/ for more information on KIS.

16 http://letr.org.uk/about/what-is-letr/

17 ibid

18 https://twitter.com/LawSync/status/212543616244125696

19 DeStephano, K (2012) Non-lawyers influencing lawyers: too many cooks in the kitchen or stone soup? Fordham Law Review 80, 2791–2845Google Scholar.

20 http://www.lawwithoutwalls.org/

21 http://reinventlaw.com/Invent/ReInvent.html

22 http://21stcenturylawpractice.com/London-Summer-Program/description.html

23 See http://computationallegalstudies.com/legal-info-engineering-summer-2012/ for details of Katz's work at the 21st Century Law Practice Summer School and Law Tech Camp London 2012.

24 http://www.riverviewlaw.com/

25 See, for example, http://www.legalservicesboard.org.uk/what_we_do/Research/Publications/pdf/understanding_consumer_needs_from_legal_information_sources_final_report.pdf p14

26 http://www.advisemebarrister.com/

27 Ajaz Ahmed of Legal 365 made this point at Law Tech Camp London 2012.

28 http://www.legal365.com/; http://www.rocketlawyer.com/

29 http://legal-two.com/lawtechcamp-london/

30 See http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/outside-funding-compelling-reason-take-abs-route