I asked my readers in a recent post to let me know what their top questions were regarding virtual law practice. One reader writes: “Is there a software solution that can be installed out of the box that would work well for a virtual practice, or does someone have to find someone with programming expertise [...]

I’ve been doing more blogging for the VLOTech website. A lot of my material is coming from the CLE manuscript that I’m drafting for a presentation this summer on security/ethics issues with virtual law practices. The legality and enforceability of clickwrap agreements in a vlo is a question I’ve gotten from other attorneys. In my [...]

Sheryl Sisk Schelin, author of The Inspired Solo, invited me to write a guest post for her blog this week. Thank you to Sheryl for the opportunity to share my virtual practice with her readers! In other news, VLOTech is having its website professionally designed by G2 Web Media which is owned by Grant Griffiths [...]

I was fortunate to win the above titled book as a prize during the Macs Practice Law Week hosted by The Inspired Solo. The authors, Sharon D. Nelson, Bruce A. Olson and John W. Simek, mention in the introduction to the book that when they predicted that all lawyers would need to learn about electronic [...]

The response to my guest post on Susan Cartier Liebel’s blog Build a Solo Practice, LLC has been overwhelming. In the past three days Virtual Law Office Technology has been swamped with emails and a few phone calls from other solos interested in using the release version of the web application. I’ve really been enjoying [...]

In October, the national publication, Lawyers USA, ran a feature article on my virtual law office. The article also discussed the development of the software that Virtual Law Office Technology, LLC (VLOTech) plans to release to a select group of attorney clients next year. My law office runs on the proof of concept version of [...]

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 [...]

This has been a great week for introducing the website to the public. The Wilmington Star-News ran a short article on the virtual law office and then the daily N.C. Lawyer’s Weekly, which is emailed out to a large number of attorneys statewide, published a short mention on the virtual law office and linked to [...]

The website went completely live last night. This means that anyone interested can register for their own account and have access to the “ask a lawyer” function. As with any new site, there are sure to be some things in the layout and usability which might need improvement. I’m looking forward to receiving such critiques [...]

The payment and “ask an attorney” function of the website is still in the process of beta testing. We are trying so hard to make sure that everything is in compliance with the NC Bar and also easy to understand and use for the clients. Therefore, we are taking our time to make sure the [...]