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A social media sacking

January 6, 2009

In Australia, an Australian court recently allowed lawyers to use Facebook to serve a couple of with a default judgment.
In Canada, esthetician Crystal Bell was recently fired via Facebook.
In America, Carolyn Elefant suspects that a social media sacking would not be contrary to employment law (of which there isn’t all that much).
Facebook’s emergence as a […]

Written by admin · Filed Under Legal Business 

Newspapers must innovate to survive

January 6, 2009

Could selling front page advertising space help save the newspaper industry? The New York Times thinks so. As this story from the Australian confirms, it’s joined the growing trend of US newspapers offering prime time ad space.
But is it too little, too late? We suspect that media commentator Roy Greenslade thinks so. Writing in the […]

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HNW Investors - not as cautious as you might think for 2009

January 6, 2009

There’s a thoughtful piece over at WealthBriefing on the likely stance of HNW Investors over the next 12 months. Interestingly, risk is not wholly off the table. Click here to learn why (clue: there is a hint of some all too rare good news in the phrase “markets are likely to revive later in the […]

Written by admin · Filed Under Wealth Management 

Web 2.0: It Might Just Save The World

January 6, 2009

Since this blog began, Blade and his colleagues have banged the Web 2.0 drum. That’s eight or nine months of drumming, though perhaps we made the most noise in August last year, in accompaniment to the melody occasioned by the publication of Spada’s White Paper, The Laity Bytes Back? Regular readers will recall that Spada’s […]

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To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

John Updike, 1932 - present, American writer.

In Joust

It’s back. Yes, a new series of Channel 4’s covertly Proustian analysis of societal mores, Celebrity Big Brother, returns to our screens.
Here at Swordplay, we can’t wait, for one of the housemates - alongside rapper Coolio, a former Sugababe and Ulrika “£175,000 (allegedly) for three weeks” Jonsson, to name but three - is none other […]

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Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports

In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting. The white paper is available for download here.

Web 2.0 and the professions

Now available for download here is Spada’s latest white paper. Entitled ‘The Laity Bytes Back’, the paper looks at Web 2.0 and the professions. 

The Global Law Firm

In this paper, published in the International Journal of Business and Economics, David Brock, Tal Yaffe and Mark Dembovsky scrutinise large law firms, their strategies and measures of their effectiveness.   

Maximising Bang For Buck

In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke, MD of Spada, looks at how US law firms should approach hiring a UK PR agency. The piece is reproduced from Strategies - The Journal of Legal Marketing by kind permission of the Legal Marketing Association.

Towards 2012 - The New Legal Landscape

Spada’s white paper on the impact of the Legal Services act is now available to download here. The research recently featured on the front page of the Law Society Gazette.

Information Inflation: Can the Legal System Adapt? 

George L. Paul, a partner in Lewis and Roca, LLP and Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, discuss the “new inflationary dynamic” of information in this article from the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology. How do vast quantities of new writing forms challenge the legal profession, and how should lawyers adapt?

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