Video – Disruptive Innovation in Legal Services at Harvard
Last week I attended a conference hosted by Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession, entitled “Disruptive Innovation in the Market for Legal Services.”
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2009 Recap of Virtual Law Practice
This year has brought the legal profession closer to the acceptance of virtual law practice as a method of delivering legal services through the use of technology. Virtual law practices are improving access to and affordability of legal services to the general public. For legal professionals, practicing law online provides the flexibility to create innovative and unique […]
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Transitioning with a Virtual Law Practice
Over the past couple weeks I have spoken with two or three attorneys who have been laid off from their positions at large law firms. A couple of them knew that the practices of their BigLaw firms were not sustainable in this economic environment and had the foresight to pad their savings. Now they are […]
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Interest in Virtual Law Practice Spreading Across the States
Over the past month, I’ve heard from several attorneys who will be opening their own web-based virtual law practices. The following states are on board now: SC, IL, VA, AK, GA, TX, MD, TN and KY. Some attorneys are still in the process of speaking with their state bars about providing unbundled legal services. One […]
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Notice & Understanding: Setting the Scope of Representation for Online Clients
While each state’s bar has different rules governing their attorneys, I suspect that many of the rules of professional conduct and ethics opinions are similar. The NC State Bar was one of the first to address virtual law practice. On January 20, 2006, the NC State Bar adopted the 2005 Formal Ethics Opinion 10 (Ethics […]
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Work/Life Balance Reform and the Virtual Law Office
The following is a post I wrote for MsJD about how a virtual law practice could be used as a way to provide attorneys with more flexible work/life balance. The essay was in response to an essay contest hosted by The Project for Attorney Retention and MsJD. A small part of the work/life balance reform […]
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KLS Virtual Law Office Fall Update
This fall I’ve connected with several other attorneys across the nation who have similar goals of using the most current technology to better serve clients and facilitate collaboration between attorneys. Roger Glovsky (The Virtual Lawyer) has a great website, Lexpertise, with the goal of linking attorneys nationwide. Grant Griffiths is an attorney who also runs […]
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Supporting Virtual Law Practices
Keeping up with blogging has been impossible between running my online law practice, raising an 18 month old and forming a new software company. I’ll do my best to provide a brief update. In June, we filed a patent for the virtual law office software and business method. We formed a company called Virtual Law […]
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