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I’m on a panel discussion this morning at the ABA Annual Meeting about the impact of technology and globalization on ethics for the 21st century lawyer. One of the questions that I expect will come up will be about the need for ethics rules to be revised to reflect the changes in practice management that […]
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Virtual Lawyering In the News & Upcoming Presentations
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 […]
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Does the Internet Make You Feel Risky?
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 […]
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Twitter Debate about Virtual Law Practice
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 […]
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The Future of the Legal Profession is Client-Centric
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 […]
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2010 ABA Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering
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 […]
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Technology at Techshow to Enable Online Delivery of Legal Services
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 […]
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Clearing Up the Terminology Before TECHSHOW
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 […]
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Microblogging about VLOs
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 […]
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Upcoming Events in March Related to Virtual Law Practice
The South Carolina Bar Association is hosting a session entitled “The Virtual Law Office: Making It Work for You”, Friday, March 12 at 9:00am. This session, taught by yours truly, will be a live webcast or if you are in Columbia, South Carolina, please join us at the Bar Center. In this three hour session, I’ll be covering how to […]
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