ABA
The second edition of my book, Virtual Law Practice, will be released from ABA LPD Publishing this month. (There will be a digital copy for sale in the coming months and eventually it gets released on Amazon for those of you who want other purchasing options.) I’ve updated the book significantly since the original publication […]
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Webinar for Future of Legal Services Commission
Here is the video from my presentation to the ABA Future of Legal Services Commission. I was asked to discuss virtual law practice and online engagement through gamification. This is part of a series of webinars that the Commission is holding. You can check out the other videos on their website, including talks by Will […]
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Commission on Future of Legal Services Seeks Feedback
I was honored to be asked to participate in the ABA President’s Commission on the Future of Legal Services this year and next. This Commission is calling for Issues Paper feedback now through December 10th. For my legal tech friends and colleagues, if you have something to say, now is a good time to get it on the […]
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Podcast: How to Provide Client Hand-holding in Virtual Law Practice
Last month I joined in on a podcast for the ABA Journal with reporter Stephanie Francis Ward, Michelle Crosby, founder of Wevorce, and Fred Rooney, Director of Touro Law Center’s International Justice Center for Post-Graduate Development. The topic was “How do you provide client hand-holding if you run a virtual firm?”
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ABA Journal Covers Crowdfunding for Game for Legal Services
The ABA Journal wrote an article about the RocketHub crowdfund campaign to develop the game for legal services, Estate Quest.
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Video – Disruptive Innovation in Legal Services at Harvard
Last week I attended a conference hosted by Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession, entitled “Disruptive Innovation in the Market for Legal Services.”
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Infographic: Preview of New Access to Justice Project
This is a preview of the Access to Justice Project that I am working on for the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services to create an online, centralized hub of access to justice information for a variety of users.
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Podcast: How People Search for Lawyers: The Consumer Law Revolution
Here is the podcast for an edition of The Digital Edge with Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway where we discuss the subject of my new book, The Consumer Law Revolution: The Lawyer’s Guide to the Online Legal Marketplace.
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Writing, Writing and More Writing
A few articles to note:
•A Symposium on Justice, Lawyering and Legal Education in the Digital Age will be held by Chicago-Kent College of Law this week in conjunction with the CALI’s 2013 Conference for Law School Computing. Richard Granat and I co-wrote an article entitled The Teaching of Law Practice Management and Technology in Law Schools: A New Paradigm, for the symposium which has been published in the law school’s law review.
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Online Legal Marketplace Book Release
My new book about the online legal marketplace, Consumer Law Revolution, was released today from the publisher and pre-orders should be shipping this week. I’m excited to share this book with the legal profession. It dives into an area that is growing in practice and where we don’t have clear, established best practices to guide us. The online legal marketplace naturally involves technology and the unbundling of legal services, but also new forms of online lawyer advertising and collaboration with non-lawyer legal service companies that provide online marketing tools and platforms for lawyers to connect with consumers.
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