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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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