SaaS Archives - Virtual Law Practice

Stanford CodeX Speaker Presentation Video

By Stephanie Kimbro | May 8, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Unbundling - Limited Scope | Leave a Comment

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

New Version of NC SaaS Ethics Opinion

By Stephanie Kimbro | November 22, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Ethics, SaaS, Technology | 2 Comments

The NC Bar has published the revised version of it proposed ethics opinion entitled “Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property”, 2011 FEO 6 on the website. It will also be published in the next issue of the NC State Bar Journal. You can […] ...READ MORE

Top Ten Basic Security Practices for a Virtual Law Office

By Stephanie Kimbro | June 21, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

I love SaaS. I depend on SaaS to operate my virtual law office. I support an attorney’s right to choose their own practice management tools and make their own business decisions whether it’s in the cloud or in a filing cabinet. But there are responsibilities that come along with choosing any practice management system and […] ...READ MORE

Death, Succession Planning & the Virtual Law Office

By Stephanie Kimbro | January 26, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

Death. The issue recently crept up in a presentation I gave about virtual law practice. Then, the question that most of us like to avoid came up again on a personal level when in December I needed open surgery myself and in preparation started questioning what would happen to my virtual law office if I weren’t around to […] ...READ MORE

Welcome Competition – Pushing Virtual Law Practice Into the Mainstream

By Stephanie Kimbro | January 24, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

Be prepared this year to see major changes in new legal SaaS products that promote the online delivery of legal services. Also expect to see greater acceptance of virtual law practice by the mainstream legal profession as legal SaaS vendors band together to set standards for the industry. Larger players in the legal technology industry are diving […] ...READ MORE

Virtual Law Pratice at ILTA

By Stephanie Kimbro | August 30, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Delivering Legal Services Online, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

This past week’s ILTA conference was full of great insight about disruptive technologies, virtual law practice and the changes that are expected in practice management as a result. I wasn’t able to attend the conference in person, but I managed to collect materials and information presented at key sessions. Here’s what I picked up without the […] ...READ MORE

Update on Proposed NC Ethics Opinion on Cloud Computing

By Stephanie Kimbro | August 19, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology | Leave a Comment

I was notified this past week that the NC Bar Ethics Committee met at the end of July and decided to send the proposed ethics opinion, 2010 FEO 7 “Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property” to a subcommittee for further study. They will be providing an update on […] ...READ MORE

Update on Ethics Inquiry into Cloud Computing

By Stephanie Kimbro | April 23, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, eLawyering, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology | 1 Comment

UPDATE: I received an email from the ethics committee with the following information: If you would like to submit a comment on the proposed opinion regarding cloud computing, the deadline is July 9, 2010 and the comment should be directed in writing to Alice Mine at the N.C. State Bar. Further information on the ethics opinions […] ...READ MORE

NC Bar Ethics Committee Reviews Cloud Computing Inquiry

By Stephanie Kimbro | April 8, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Ethics, Practice Management, SaaS, Technology, Virtual practice | 1 Comment

For some reason, a firm here in my home state decided it was in their best interest to ask permission of the NC State Bar before using a SaaS product. *really big sigh* So now those of us who have been using SaaS applications for years for everything from email, tasks and calendaring to delivering legal […] ...READ MORE

Technology at Techshow to Enable Online Delivery of Legal Services

By Stephanie Kimbro | March 25, 2010 | ABA, Cloud Computing, eLawyering, SaaS, Technology, Unbundling - Limited Scope | Leave a Comment

Exhibitor Hall at this year’s ABA Techshow has a number of different web-based technologies that allow for attorneys to take all or portions of their practice online. Most of them seem to be practice management applications, and not so much geared towards working online securely with clients. However, there are a few new developments that assist virtual […] ...READ MORE

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