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Unbundling Low Cost Legal Services with Contract Lawyers

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I wanted to give a shout-out to Gabriel Cheong, owner of Infinity Law Group, for creating a new business model that unbundles legal services for reduced fees. Cheong has founded Cambridge Divorce Group which brings together contract lawyers who are willing to unbundle family law services for reduced rates. I’ve mentioned Cheong on here before because his law firm website features a web calculator to assist prospective clients in estimating their legal costs. ...READ MORE

Ethics and the Virtual Law Office – Article in St. Louis Lawyer

By | | Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, Technology, Virtual practice | 2 Comments

Michael Downey, a lawyer with Armstrong Teasdale LLP and legal ethics teacher at Washington University School of Law and St. Louis University School of Law, has written an article seeking to balance the messages lawyers might take from two recent events in virtual practice news: 1) Rachel Rodger’s article in Forbes focusing on the benefits of increased work/life balance from virtual law offices and 2) the Virginia disciplinary matter of lawyer Atchuthan Sriskandarah who operated a virtual practice and engaged in misleading lawyer advertising. ...READ MORE

Attorney @ Work: The Next Lawyering Frontier

By | | Book, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Marketing, Online Marketing, Practice Management, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

In case you missed reading it on the Attorney at Work blog, here is a link to my interview for them. I’ve gotten a huge response from this article in the form of emails from lawyers across the country so something in it must have struck a cord. ...READ MORE

ABA Adopts Unbunding Resolution

By | | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, Technology, Unbundling - Limited Scope, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

This Monday the ABA House of Delegates voted to adopt Resolution 108 supporting limited scope representation or unbundling. This resolution was crafted by the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. Because unbundling is frequently used as a method of legal service delivery for virtual practice, I want to post the actual text of the resolution here. ...READ MORE

Click and Mortar Legal Services for the Public Open in CA

By | | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Document Automation, eLawyering, Ethics, Online Marketing, Practice Management, Technology, Unbundling - Limited Scope, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

A new hybrid of legal service delivery has launched this week with the opening of the LegalForce storefront in Palo Alto. The delivery model combines online services with the customer service of a traditional store front operation complete with a network of lawyers who charge a flat rate of $45 for 15 minutes of legal advice. ...READ MORE

Consumer Law Revolution Ebook

By | | Book, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Marketing, Online Marketing, Practice Management, Technology, Virtual practice | 3 Comments

I’ve created a new page on this blog for my new ebook: Consumer Law Revolution. This ebook is the precursor to my full book that should be published by the ABA LPM sometime later this year. The ebook provides an introduction to the concept of branded networks and online marketing tools for lawyers. I researched almost all of the legal tech startups and branded networks from both the lawyer and consumer perspective. These case studies are in the full book as are all of the important ethics issues surrounding lawyer’s collaboration with these companies to engage with and provide legal services to the public. ...READ MORE

15 Technology and Legal Services Delivery Predictions for 2013

By | | ABA, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Marketing, Practice Management, Technology, Virtual practice | 6 Comments

Every six months I used to write a post with a list of virtual law practice updates or items that had been “in the news.” Elawyering and virtual practice have become so mainstream these days that doing this would result in a ridiculously long list of references. Instead, I’m going to compile a list of my top 15 predictions for the coming year that relate to virtual practice. ...READ MORE
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