Following on from my previous post (the TimesOnline report claiming that UK lawyers were perhaps behind the times compared to their cousins across the pond in the big old USA) - the 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report was brought to my attention via the BIALL blog, which suggests that they may not be as 'law 2.0' as we're lead to believe!
Is free research catching up with the big two?
The 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report
has just been published by the American Bar Association, this report
discusses in detail the use of technology within the legal profession
and would be an interesting read for anyone involved in this area,
unfortunately the report isn't available for free, but there is an
interesting summary available on the ABA Journal website entitled "Web 2.0 Still a No-go"
This discusses how Lawyers are slow to adopt cutting edge technology like RSS Feeds, however things are beginning to change with Social Networking sites like Facebook beginning to catch on and of most interest to anyone working within an Information Unit the number of lawyers using free online legal research services.
According to the article in 2003 72% of Lawyers used free online legal research tools and 82% used subscription based services. Now those figures have been reversed with 89% using free online legal research tools and 87% using subscription based services. Another interesting statistic included in the report is that since 2003 there has been a 17% increase in the number of laywers conducting legal research online.
Both Nick Holmes and Charon QC noted the lack of real rearch that went into the TimesOnline, spurring the creation of a Snowflakes page of UK legal blogs by Charon QC that is quite extensive... I've not counted but I reckon there's well over 60 listed there. Delia Venables also lists a number of legal blogs for the UK and beyond.
Back to the topic of using web2.0 tools, I've been keeping an eye on Tony Karrer's e-learning blog as he discusses work done with the eLearningGuild on the use of such tools by Corporations, Education and Government (all US based). He notes that Education is ahead of Corporations in their adoption of e-learning tools, and Government showed some surprising trends.
The tools reported as used in education (US only) are shown in the image here.
This discusses how Lawyers are slow to adopt cutting edge technology like RSS Feeds, however things are beginning to change with Social Networking sites like Facebook beginning to catch on and of most interest to anyone working within an Information Unit the number of lawyers using free online legal research services.
According to the article in 2003 72% of Lawyers used free online legal research tools and 82% used subscription based services. Now those figures have been reversed with 89% using free online legal research tools and 87% using subscription based services. Another interesting statistic included in the report is that since 2003 there has been a 17% increase in the number of laywers conducting legal research online.
Both Nick Holmes and Charon QC noted the lack of real rearch that went into the TimesOnline, spurring the creation of a Snowflakes page of UK legal blogs by Charon QC that is quite extensive... I've not counted but I reckon there's well over 60 listed there. Delia Venables also lists a number of legal blogs for the UK and beyond.
Back to the topic of using web2.0 tools, I've been keeping an eye on Tony Karrer's e-learning blog as he discusses work done with the eLearningGuild on the use of such tools by Corporations, Education and Government (all US based). He notes that Education is ahead of Corporations in their adoption of e-learning tools, and Government showed some surprising trends.
The tools reported as used in education (US only) are shown in the image here.
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