More affordable law information?

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.

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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

Advocate

Librarian/Information officer

Other

Other (please specify)

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

Sole practioner

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 R1000 annually

R1001 - R5000 annually

R5001 - R10 -000 annually

R11 -000 - R20 - 000 annually

R21 000 - R30 -000 annually

R31 - 40 000 annually

More than R40 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 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.

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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 into 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?

Nil

About R100 a month

About 500 a month

About R1000 a month

About R2000 a month

About R5000 a month

More than 7000 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 more to you more affordably.

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* 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.)

Name

Your organisation

Job title

Email Address

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