Virtual lawyers and multijurisdictional virtual law firms take note: The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has released yet another issues paper proposing changes to ethics rules that could affect the delivery of legal services online.  This newest paper comes from the Working Group on Uniformity, Choice of Law, and Conflicts of Interest and is entitled “Choice of [...]

- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law presentation on virtual law offices, next Thursday, February 10th at noon.  – Unbundling Legal Services: Ethics and Best Practices, ALI-ABA Teleconference, February 24, noon-1:30pm EST. – AVVO webinar on unbundling legal services which will also discuss the use of technology to unbundle and deliver [...]

I’m excited to announce the formation of the Legal Cloud Computing Association (LCCA).  See the formal press release below my comments.  About two years ago when I was owner of VLOTech, Larry Port of Rocket Matter reached out to me, Jack Newton (Clio) and Richard Granat (DirectLaw) about forming a group to address the concerns [...]

Here is the recording from the webinar I presented on November 9th for the Avvo blog.  It provides an introduction to virtual law practice, looks at some case studies of how attorneys are setting up virtual law offices and then dives into researching the technology, ethics issues and ends with marketing a virtual law office.  [...]

Please join me this week for two different webinars related to virtual law practice.   Both are free sessions that you can register for, but each will take a different approach in covering the topic. How to Operate a Virtual Law Office and Deliver Legal Services Online – Tuesday, November 9, 10:00am PT, AVVO Blog: Register [...]

The following is an excerpt from my recent guest post for the Lawyerist blog discussing a mini-conference on educating the digital lawyer that I attended last week at Harvard Law sponsored by the Berkman Law Lab.  Below are a few examples of courses or programs that are successfully working to provide a digital education.  Some of them have links [...]

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 [...]

This past weekend I presented a CLE session for the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys (NCAWA) annual meeting on the topic of social media for legal professionals. Anyone involved in virtual law practice needs to understand social media and how it can be used to market a virtual law office, but also about how [...]

September’s issue of the Michigan Bar Journal features an article that I wrote entitled “Best Practice Tips for the Virtual Law Office.”  The article summarizes some of the potential malpractice risks of using technology to deliver legal services online and then discuss ways to mitigate those risks. 

The final guest post in my three-part series for the Massachusett’s Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) has posted on the blog.  This final post covers ethics considerations in virtual law practice including both the attorney’s responsibility to thoroughly research their software provider as well as best practices for the ethical management of a virtual [...]