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Better law information?

Help us to improve your law information service. (And get preferential benefits now.)

The Law Society of South Africa needs legal practitioners like you to help us to understand what law information you need and what needs improving.

Please take a few minutes to easily choose answers to these 9 simple questions. Your anonymous insights will be added to our profession-wide study that will be used to shape improvements to your law information service.

Contributors to this study qualify for early inclusion in the Law Society of South Africa's preferential benefit programme to be launched shortly.

Thank you for your valuable input. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
1.Please select a category that indicates your role in the legal profession.(Required.)
2.How many practioners (fee earners) work in your practice?
3.Generally, how satisfied are you with the usefulness of the legal information you currently get?
4.How important are the following categories of information to you?
Not at all
Not very
Quite
Very
Critical
Court rolls & notices
Law reports/case info
Legislation updates
Legal profession regulations & rules
Legal profession news
Legal profession services directory and contacts
Profession structure, bodies and contacts
Upcoming webinars and conferences for the legal profession
Schedule of training courses for the legal profession
Information about practicing law in other countries
Information about running a legal practice business
Trends/strategic issues impacting the legal profession
Legal profession research papers
Consumer research relevant to the legal profession
5.How often do you use any of these specific sources of law information?
Never
Seldom
Occasionally
Often
All the time
Juta
Lexis Nexis
Sabinet
Legal Practice Council
Government Gazette
Law Journals
De Rebus
SAFLII
Other media (Legal Maverick etc)
Newspapers (Legal sections)
Legal association newsletters
Legal association websites
Legal firm websites
Legal firm newsletters
Legal conferences/webinars
Social media groups (Legal)
Social media
Google/search engines
6.Please name the specific sources of legal information that you currently rely on the most in order of their importance and usefulness to you?
7.How do you prefer to get your law information
8.Does your firm have a dedicated librarian/information officer?
9.Please identify any areas where your law information can be improved. And/or suggest any ways that the Law Society of South Africa could act to help you to get the legal information you want, when you want it, and the way you want it.
10.To stand a chance to win a book hamper worth over R 5 000 please complete the below information.
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