Welcome to the LexisNexis Future of Law blog. Led by our own experts, we plan to draw on the trends, issues and developments facing the legal profession to stimulate discussion, offer insight and inspire our peers, customers and colleagues.

Our focus on the future of law is not accidental. In fact, it is deeply ingrained in our people and our heritage. It began with Henry Butterworth's inspired idea to publish the laws in one volume in 1818.

In 1902 Stanley Bond introduced practical materials for lawyers when he published the first encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents. Of course, Stanley Bond was also responsible for publishing what is probably the most successful encyclopaedia in legal history when he persuaded Lord Halsbury to become the first editor-in-chief of Halsbury's Laws of England in 1907.