My Notable Property Person this week is Tom Entwistle, who runs the excellent LandlordZone web-site. Here is his story. (Note that this was written before the current Housing Minister was appointed). 1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company I’m Tom Entwistle, editor and founding director of LandlordZONE.co.uk. Born and raised…
Just a short post to let you know that you can now read the Landlord Law Blog on your mobile phone! We are using a service called Mippin (which I wrote about on my Solicitors Online Blog here). To get the blog on your phone you just put in the url www.landlordlawblog.co.uk and you will…
Regular readers may remember that back in November I did a Landlord Law Toolbar. This provided links to all the main parts of my Landlord Law site, to give members an alternative method of navigation. I have gradually found myself using the toolbar. But I found I wanted more. I wanted links to the courts,…
I know that some of you sometimes find it a bit difficult to locate content on the Landlord Law site. This is not surprising as it is a very large site, and however we organise the content, someone is going to be unhappy about it. However you now have something new to help you –…
Reading an article about twitter this morning, I suddenly thought ‘Why not have some special tips accounts? One for landlords and one for tenants?’ Well, not being one to mess about (particularly where there is a free marketing opportunity), I have now set these up. Every week, on a Wednesday afternoon, tips will be posted:…
I treated myself to an Apple MacBook over Christmas. I am still feeling a bit guilty about it because, frankly I could have got something much cheaper – but I wanted to try a Mac! Having got it though I am really pleased I did. The MacBook I bought was the cheapest available, the small…
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Susskind – the end of lawyers?
I have just listened to an interesting webcast of an interview of Richard Susskind here. Susskind is promoting his new book, The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the nature of legal services, having written several groundbreaking books on the use of IT and technology in the internet in the past. Susskind covers quite a wide range…