Karl Chapman - "You tut if you want to, the [legal] market is for turning"

Karl Chapman slam dunks it in an interview with the legal tabloid Legal Cheek here. He said: 

"You tut if you want to, the [legal] market is for turning."

Gary Slapper - Lawyers Must Change

Law columnist with The Times online,  Professor at the New York University, Director of NYU London and Chambers door tenant at 36 Bedford Row, Gary Slapper said on Twitter recently:

LAWYERS MUST CHANGE message from lawyer. Lawyers should stop being "long winded" and "brim full of trickery and foolishness" Cicero, 63 BC
— Gary Slapper (@garyslapper) October 14, 2013

The Lawyer's Email Hysteria of the 1990s

In an interview with litigator-turned-presenter James D. Zirin, Richard Susskind spoke of how his mid-1990s suggestions that lawyers would use email were rubbished and silenced by the settled legal establishment. Backing-up the discussion a bit, Richard Susskind explained the context in this way:

“I look at the tax profession. I look at the way they handle tax risk, the way they identify, control, manage, hedge, monitor tax risk: they use sophisticated tools and techniques to help clients, not simply resolve their problems, but say, on the horizon are 4 problems you’re likely to face and here’s how you can manage and control these risks." 

 James D. Zirin then breached the email-hysteria topic. He asked Susskind:

"You’ve been working in this area for about 30 years. When you got started there was considerable resistance at the English Bar to your ideas, isn’t that true – that the Law Society (what we in the US call the American Bar Association) didn’t want you to speak in public?”

Northern Ireland Law Society Talks Social Media

Compared to the Law Society in England and Wales and the one in Scotland, Northern Ireland's solicitor regulatory body has been pretty quiet on the matter and question of social media.

However it hasn't gone without mention and it appears that the Law Society in Northern Ireland is at least open to the idea of solicitors and law firms in Northern Ireland using and getting to grips with social media. How do I know this. Well because of an advertisement I found on Google that referred to a social media seminar for law firms to be hosted by the NI Law Society in June 2012.

The June 11 event was advertised here, and was hosted by the Law Society's Communication Officer, Paul O'Connor and Tim McKane of Belfast digital media agency, Novajo Talk.

From Zero to 140: the Law's Fastest Interview with Anthony Lyons

This is the law's fastest cross-examination where the respondent has to put up an answer between Zero and 140 characters. Today's latest interviewee is legal tweeter Anthony Lyons (@ParalegalTony). Here it goes:

Brian John Spencer: What are you up to right now?
Anthony Lyons: Studying for LPC exams this week. Got a long few nights ahead of me!