Over the past year I’ve spoken with attorneys who have been laid off from Biglaw firms and are seeking new positions or attorneys who have just passed the bar and are having trouble finding a position to launch their legal careers.  Both groups of individuals are working hard to establish or reinvent themselves within the [...]

This past month I gave a podcast interview for the LexisNexis® Estate Practice & Elder Law Center about my virtual law office. The session discusses how I provide estate planning services to my clients online as well as how other attorneys are using the web-based technology to deliver legal services in other states. Here is [...]

Over the past couple months I’ve noticed an increase in the number of parents who are registering as clients on my VLO and requesting legal services on behalf of their adult children.  A fellow attorney on Twitter commented that this must be the newest form of helicopter parenting. Most of these concerned parents are requesting that [...]

I need to brag for a minute. I am proud to announce that for the second year in a row my virtual law practice was voted the Family Favorite by the readers of the Wilmington Parent Magazine. The publication is a local parenting magazine that covers several major counties across the southeastern coast of North [...]

Practicing online I often receive this question as an ethics challenge to my virtual practice: How can you be sure that the person you are communicating with online is really person you are drafting the documents for? Because I handle estate planning, attorneys who operate more traditional practices express specific concern about the power of [...]

Building a client base for a vlo requires out of the box thinking. I’ve found that networking works best when I use other popular online networking mediums that are frequented by the online public, my potential clients. The no-brainer is advertising my vlo on free lawyer referral websites or in free classified ad sections like [...]

As an attorney, I believe that quality legal services should be available to all citizens regardless of their income levels. Many times clients are unable or unwilling to pay hundreds of dollars per billable hour to meet with an attorney in person when they have only general legal questions or need basic legal guidance. I [...]