More affordable law information?

Can law information be supplied more affordably?

The Law Society of South Africa needs legal practitioners like you to help us find ways to make legal information more affordable.

Please take a few minutes to select answers to ten simple questions here. Your anonymous insights will be added to our profession-wide study that will shape improvements to the affordability of your legal information service.

Thank you for your valuable input. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

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* 1. Please select a category that indicates your role in the legal profession?

Advocate

Attorney

Non practicing attorney/legal advisor

Candidate attorney

Paralegal

Professional assistant

Librarian/Information officer

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 2. How many practitioners (fee earners) work in your practice?

Sole practitioner

2-10

10-19

20-49

More than 50

Add a comment to specify the number of fee earning practioners that work at your firm?

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* 3. Do you currently pay for a law information service?

Yes

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* 4. Which law information services do you currently subscribe to/pay for presently? (Please indicate the supplier of the service, the cost of the service and whether the cost is a monthly or annual one.)

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* 5. How much do you estimate you spend on law information annually?

Under R 1 000 annually

R 1 001 - R 5 000 annually

R 5 001 - R 10 000 annually

R 11 000 - R 20 000 annually

R 21 000 - R 30 000 annually

R 31 000 - R 40 000 annually

More than R 40 000 annually

If you are able to, please add a specific amount you spend on legal information annually here.

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* 6. If you do not pay for law information, please indicate why not?

I use free sources to get my legal information.

I do not use legal information.

Law information is not important to my role.

I get my law information from my organisation's library.

My law information is free thanks to sponsorships.

Law information is too expensive for me.

The available law information is not useful.

Add any comments that will help us to better understand your answer here.

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* 7. How would you prefer to pay for law information?

Monthly

Quarterly

Annually

As and when needed

Add a comment that helps us to understand any other payment preferences you have?

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* 8. Please select an option that best indicates your plans to invest in legal information in the future?

Increase investment by more than 30%

Increase investment by more 20%

Increase investment by more than 10%

Increase investment by under 10%

Investment will remain roughly the same

Decrease investment by under 10%

Decrease investment by more than 10%

Decrease investment by more than 20%

Decrease investment by more than 30%

Plan to stop investing in legal information altogether.

Please add any comment on your information investment plans to clarify your answer.

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* 9. What do you think a law practioner should be willing to invest in a useful law information service?

Nothing

About R 100 a month

About R 500 a month

About R 1 000 a month

About R 2 000 a month

About R 5 000 a month

More than R 7 000 per month

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Please make any comments that will help us to understand your views about the costs of legal information services. And/or suggest ways that legal information could be supplied to you more affordably.

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* 11. To stand a chance to win a book hamper worth over R 5 000 please complete the below information.

Name and Surname

Contact number

E-mail address

Practice number

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