Last week at the ABA Techshow in Chicago, I was pleased to launch the publication of my new book on unbundling.

Writing a book on limited scope services seemed like a logical next step in the process of reevaluating how the legal profession can adapt to the changes it faces as a result of disruptive technology, economic recession, Internet empowered consumers and other factors.

An exciting new resource for lawyers and legal educators has been published online for free thanks to the sponsorship of Harvard’s Berkman Center LawLab. The book project called Educating the Digital Lawyer is now available for download as an epub file here.

Alabama State Bar Ethics Opinion 2010-02, “Retention, Storage, Ownership, Production and Destruction of Client Files” This opinion addresses the following issues: 1) file retention policies; 2) how long a file should be retained; 3) what constitutes a client’s file; 4) what parts of the file can be destroyed; 5) the ethical considerations related to electronic [...]

Below is the start of a list of ethics opinions proposed or published by different state bars that relate to virtual law practice.  This is meant to update the full list in the appendix to my book which contains state-by-state, topical references to ethics and advisory opinion that involve different aspects of operating a virtual [...]

In the appendix of my book, I mention a list of current SaaS and other cloud computing service providers with products that may be used in the delivery of legal services online.   I’ve posted some of these companies below.  There are more coming out every month, and I welcome suggestions for new ones to add to the list.     [...]

Entitled “Ethical Obligations on Maintaining a Virtual Office for the Practice of Law in Pennsylvania”, the PA Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility published its FEO 2010-200 this month.  The opinion is in stark contrast to the out-dated thinking in the ethics opinion discussing virtual law offices published this past spring by its neighboring state of [...]

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my book Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online through the ABA LPM Publishing.  The book was written to be a practical, how-to manual for attorneys who want to deliver legal services online by creating a virtual law office. It addresses virtual law practice that is [...]