More affordable law information? Survey

Can law information be supplied more affordably?

The Law Society of South Africa needs legal practioners like you to help us find ways to make SA's law information more affordable.

Please take a few minutes to select answers to 9 simple questions here. Your anonymous insights will be added to our profession-wide study that will shape improvements to the affordability of your law information service.

A full contribution to this study qualifies you 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.

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

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

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

Yes

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.)

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

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

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

I use free sources to get my legal information.

I don't use legal information.

Law information is not important to my role.

I get my law information from my organisations 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.

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?

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

Other (please specify)

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 more to you more affordably.

11.If you've contributed to this study in full, you qualify for early inclusion in the Law Society of South Africa's preferential benefits programme. To sign up and get more information, please add your contact information here. (Your information will not be connected to any of your answers or shared with anyone.)

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