Virtual Law Practice

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Slides: Increasing Online Engagement with Gamification

By | | Delivering Legal Services Online, Games, Pro Bono, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

These are slides from my presentation at DATA2J, a roundtable conference hosted by Prof. Elizabeth Chambliss, Director of the Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism at the USC School of Law. In my presentation, I addressed ways to increase online engagement between the public and lawyers through the use of gamification. I based […] ...READ MORE

Client Portal Matrix

By | | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, Economic Benefits, eLawyering, Online Payments, Practice Management, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

Last week I gave a presentation with Chad Burton at the ABA LPM Spring meeting about the eLawyering Task Force’s newest project, the Client Portal Matrix, formally titled as the “Comparative Evaluation of Web-based Practice Management Software with Client Portal Applications for Solos and Small Law Firms” Donna Seyle, who did most of the work gathering data for the matrix, was unable to make the meeting so I filled in to discuss some of the practical uses of a client portal in law practice and the best practices and ethics issues that might come up. ...READ MORE

Online Legal Services – Updated List for Big Law

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

Ron Friedmann over at the Prism Legal Blog has posted an updated list of big law firms delivering online legal services. Neota Logic sponsored the updated list and most likely provides the technology that facilitates the online delivery process for some of the listed firms. I share some of Ron’s thoughts about the direction that online services are heading at least in the Big Law arena. ...READ MORE

Paper on Regulatory Barriers to Multijurisdictional Virtual Law Firms

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

I wrote another paper “Regulatory Barriers to the Growth of Multijurisdictional Virtual Law Firms and Potential First Steps to their Removal” which the North Caroline Journal of Law and Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill Law School was kind enough to publish in their recent issue. ...READ MORE

A Little History (& Perspective) for Your eLawyering Bookshelf

By | | Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Technology, Virtual practice | Leave a Comment

Consider adding the books below to your reading list.  They are not new.  They are a piece of history and offer a unique perspective on the digital revolution and how we communicate.  It’s great to look forward, but looking back has its value as well. These authors motivate me to think outside the box and to rely on my own […] ...READ MORE

Potential New Regulation of Online Advertising Will Negatively Impact Solo and Small Firm Virtual Law Offices

By | | ABA, Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, Technology | Leave a Comment

There are two weeks left to submit comments to the ABA Ethics Commission 20/20 regarding its two issues papers related to cloud computing and online marketing.  I wrote about the cloud computing issues paper here, but as several fellow virtual law practitioners have pointed out to me, it is the second issues paper on the use […] ...READ MORE

No Substitute for an Attorney

By | | Delivering Legal Services Online, Document Automation, Ethics, Technology, UPL | Leave a Comment

During yesterday’s ABA ELawyering Task Force call, we discussed the recent settlement agreement entered into by LegalZoom and the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. In an Assurance of Discontinuation, the online legal services company must not state in advertising to the public that its services are less expensive than those of a law firm without […] ...READ MORE

Social Media for the Legal Professional

By | | Educational, Ethics, Marketing, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology | 1 Comment

This past weekend I presented a CLE session for the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys (NCAWA) annual meeting on the topic of social media for legal professionals. Anyone involved in virtual law practice needs to understand social media and how it can be used to market a virtual law office, but also about how […] ...READ MORE
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