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Potential New Regulation of Online Advertising Will Negatively Impact Solo and Small Firm Virtual Law Offices

By Stephanie Kimbro | November 29, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, Technology | Leave a Comment

There are two weeks left to submit comments to the ABA Ethics Commission 20/20 regarding its two issues papers related to cloud computing and online marketing. I wrote about the cloud computing issues paper here, but as several fellow virtual law practitioners have pointed out to me, it is the second issues paper on the use […] ...READ MORE

Adapt or Get out of the Way: Standards to Protect Client Property/Confidentiality Change

By Stephanie Kimbro | November 22, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

Last week during a guest lecture on virtual law practice at the University of Dayton School of Law, the subject of protecting client property and confidentiality of client data in electronic communications came up again. My prediction (perhaps overly optimistic) is that in the next few years the state bars will recognize that unencrypted email communication between attorney […] ...READ MORE

Accepting Nominations for the ABA Keane Award for Excellence in ELawyering

By Stephanie Kimbro | November 11, 2010 | ABA, Awards, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Technology | Leave a Comment

If you are an attorney or law firm that uses technology in innovative ways to deliver legal services to your clients, please consider filling out a nomination form for the ABA’s Keane Award for Excellence in ELawyering. Or if you are aware of an attorney or law firm that deserves recognition for the innovative use of […] ...READ MORE

ELawyering and the Future of Legal Work CLE

By Stephanie Kimbro | October 7, 2010 | ABA, Delivering Legal Services Online, Educational, eLawyering, Practice Management, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

The ABA eLawyering Task Force will be presenting a CLE at American University Washington College of Law on October 21, 2010 from noon – 1:20pm, entitled “ELawyering and the Future of Legal Work“. I will be joining co-panelists Blair Janis, Marc Lauritsen and Ronald Staudt in a discussion of elawyering and its impact on the future […] ...READ MORE

New ABA Ethics Opinion on Websites

By Stephanie Kimbro | September 30, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

The ABA has published a short description of its efforts to examine the impact of technology, including cloud computing & SaaS, social media and websites, and has released a new ethics opinion related to attorney websites. Last week I wrote a post about the Commission’s call for comments related to cloud computing and protecting client confidences. On October 14th, […] ...READ MORE

Call for Comments – ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission Reviews Cloud Computing and Client Confidentiality

By Stephanie Kimbro | September 21, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, Delivering Legal Services Online, Ethics, SaaS, Technology | 3 Comments

This afternoon the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 sent an email through the listserv announcing a public hearing in mid-October in Chicago. The Commission is looking for comments on two topics: 1) “Client Confidentiality and Lawyers’ Use of Technology” and 2) “Lawyers’ Use of Internet Based Client Development Tools.” I’ve uploaded the first of these […] ...READ MORE

A Legal Rebel

By Stephanie Kimbro | September 10, 2010 | ABA, Awards, Delivering Legal Services Online | 1 Comment

The ABA Journal has turned its attention to solo practitioners for this year’s group of “Legal Rebels.” I am pleased to announce that the Journal has bestowed this title upon me for my virtual law office. The article written by Stephanie Ward for my profile gets to the heart of why I started my virtual law office several […] ...READ MORE

Video: Leverage the Internet to Serve Your Clients and Grow Your Practice

By Stephanie Kimbro | September 10, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Practice Management | Leave a Comment

At the ABA Annual Meeting last month I participated in the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebel‘s program, “10 Ways to Build Your Perfect Practice & Career” hosted by Matt Homann. The presentation requirement was that I cover 20 slides in 6 minutes. I had a lot of fun preparing for this one. It’s not as easy […] ...READ MORE

Videos: Ethics and the Virtual Law Office

By Stephanie Kimbro | August 23, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Ethics, Practice Management, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

Below are two videos taken at ABA Annual a couple weeks ago that were just published on the Legal Currents blog. I’m talking about virtual law practice, where I see it going in the future and about some of the key ethics issues for attorneys to be aware of before adding a virtual law office to their practice management. ...READ MORE

Virtual Lawyering Promoted at ABA Annual

By Stephanie Kimbro | August 9, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Educational, eLawyering, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

There was a lot of coverage related to virtual law practice and the delivery of online legal services at this year’s ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Compared with even a year ago, this topic is fully on the radar of attorneys and bar officials concerned with virtual law practice for both solo and small firms. However, this […] ...READ MORE

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