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Unbundling – Limited Scope

Stanford CodeX Speaker Presentation Video

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Last week I gave a presentation at Stanford Law School entitled “Unbundling and the Future of Legal Service Delivery.” We had some great questions from the attendees at the end of the talk. Thanks again to Stanford CodeX and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession for inviting me out there. I am introduced by Tony Lai, one of the founders of LawGives who I also had the pleasure of spending time with while in Palo Alto. Below is the video from my talk. ...READ MORE

CodeX Speaker Series Discussion at Stanford Law

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I’m honored to be speaking at Stanford Law School on May 2nd as a speaker sponored by CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession. The titled of my presentation will be “Unbundling and the Future of Legal Service Delivery”. You can read more about it here. I’m looking forward to some challenging and productive discussion. ...READ MORE

Launch of Unbundling Book at ABA Techshow

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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. ...READ MORE

Another State Bar Proposes to Allow Online “Daily Deals”

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I wrote a couple weeks ago about South Carolina’s new Formal Ethics Opinion 11-05 regarding an attorney’s use of services, such as Groupon, to offer discounts and deals on their legal services.  North Carolina also has a proposed ethics opinion, 2011 Formal Ethics Opinion 10 entitled “Lawyer Advertising on Deal of the Day or Group Coupon Website.” The […] ...READ MORE

Unbundling Legal Services Webinar Slides

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Check out the slides from a webinar I gave yesterday for AVVO which provides the basics of unbundling legal services with ethics issues and best practices. Unbundling Legal Services As the owner of a virtual law office for going on six years now I’ve heard multiple times from other attorneys that because I 1) use […] ...READ MORE

Review of PA Ethics Opinion on Virtual Law Offices

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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 […] ...READ MORE

Technology eReport Features ELawyering

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The September issue of the Technology eReport from the ABA GP, Solo and Small Firm Division has a feature article on elawyering written by virtual lawyering pioneer, Richard Granat.  The article is entitled “Doing Law on the Web: eLawyering for Competitive Advantage” and provides an introduction to elawyering or virtual lawyering, but also goes into […] ...READ MORE

Ethics Considerations: Guest Post on Mass. LOMAP Blog

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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 […] ...READ MORE