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Virtual Lawyering In the News & Upcoming Presentations

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Online posts and podcast: Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson have published a new podcast on The Digital Edge entitled “Virtual Lawyering Goes Mainstream.”  Calloway and Nelson discuss ways that virtual lawyering is starting to take off within the legal profession.  Over at the Slaw.ca blog, Sharon Nelson and John Simek has a post entitled “The Virtual Lawyer […] ...READ MORE

Does the Internet Make You Feel Risky?

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Oh, yet another excuse to not take responsibility for individual action and blame it on the technology instead.  *sigh*  Seriously, this article just annoyed me to no end.  The National Law Journal published an article entitled “Lawyers’ Ethical Stumbles Increase Online” and then proceeded to give the most outrageous example of an incredibly irresponsible attorney using email to share […] ...READ MORE

Twitter Debate about Virtual Law Practice

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UPDATE: The transcript from the Twitter debate is posted on the ABA Journal.  Overall, the feedback I received from others regarding the event was positive.  A lot of valuable information and opinions shared on both sides with some fun side debates, including one started by @LisaSolomon. Looking forward to the next event hosted by @22Tweets! Please join me […] ...READ MORE

The Future of the Legal Profession is Client-Centric

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This past week the ABA LPM Section held its spring conference in Las Vegas. Of the many topics covered in the sessions and CLEs, the one recurring theme was that the changes in our profession are being driven by the clients. Some of these changes include increased customer service, response time, alternative billing, online access and […] ...READ MORE

2010 ABA Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering

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This year’s 2010 ABA Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering was awarded to the Rosen Law Firm.  Lee Rosen was presented the award by eLawyering Task Force co-chair Richard Lauritsen at the keynote luncheon at Techshow yesterday.  Following the presentation, Ari Kaplan was the keynote speaker discussing the convergence of technology and marketing.  The Rosen Law Firm is […] ...READ MORE

Technology at Techshow to Enable Online Delivery of Legal Services

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Exhibitor Hall at this year’s ABA Techshow has a number of different web-based technologies that allow  for attorneys to take all or portions of their practice online.  Most of them seem to be practice management applications, and not so much geared towards working online securely with clients. However, there are a few new developments that assist virtual […] ...READ MORE

Clearing Up the Terminology Before TECHSHOW

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TECHSHOW is here.  Some of the buzz this year is related to cloud computing, SaaS and web-based technologies that take aspects of law practice management online.  There are a lot of terms thrown around when discussing these topics.  One of them is “virtual law practice”.  We are bound to hear this phrase several times during TECHSHOW in various contexts.  Other […] ...READ MORE

Microblogging about VLOs

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Yesterday Martindale Hubbell’s Connected kicked off an event centered around virtual law firms with a two-hour Twitter conversation hosted by Larry Bodine. You can read through all of the tweets by running a search for #MHVT on your Twitter account. There was a lot of great discussion about how to define a VLO, what they […] ...READ MORE