Virtual Law Practice

Delivering legal services online

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Technology to Unbundle Legal Services

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Next week I will join Forrest “Woody” Mosten, Sue Talia and Richard Granat for an ABA CLE webinar entitled “Unbundling in the 21st Century: Growing Your Practice with Limited Scope Representation.” I am most excited about the conclusion to this webinar where Mr. Mosten, the “grandfather” of unbundling, will discuss where he sees this delivery method going in the future. Please join us if you are interested in this topic. Most virtual law practices implement some form of unbundled service delivery so it’s important to understand the ethics issues and best practices that go along with it. ...READ MORE

Webinar: How You Can Deliver Legal Services Online, ALI-CLE

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I’ll be teaching a CLE about how to deliver legal services online this Thursday, August 16th from 1-2:30pm EST for ALI-CLE and co-sponsored by the ABA Law Practice Management Section. A copy of my Virtual Law Practice book in ebook format comes with the program. We’ll cover the following topics: Introduction to virtual law practice; Options for setting up your virtual law office including: case studies, document assembly and automation, and multijurisdictional law firms; technology and understanding security issues of virtual law practice; and Ethical concerns and best practices in online legal services. ...READ MORE

Teaching Digital Lawyering with a Virtual Firm Simulation

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This summer I taught an online course for the University of Dayton School of Law entitled “Unbundling and the Future of Legal Services”. My 14 law students were required to read Richard Susskind’s End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services and chapters from my books on unbundling and virtual law practice, along with podcasts and other digital materials throughout the course. The course was held completely online three nights a week. The students could see me through video feed and I also shared my desktop with them to go in and out of applications. Aside from discussing the materials we were reading, the most practical teaching experience came from the use of our virtual law firm simulation. ...READ MORE

Technology in Legal Mentorship

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Below is an article that I wrote on the changing face of mentorship in the legal profession. I was asked to write it for a legal publication last year, but for space reasons they were not able to publish it. I think it’s an important topic so I’ll share. In this article, I focus on alternative forms of mentorship that take advantage of technology and the Internet to assist a new generation of lawyers who may have difficulty finding mentors upon passing the bar. ...READ MORE

CodeX Speaker Series Discussion at Stanford Law

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I’m honored to be speaking at Stanford Law School on May 2nd as a speaker sponored by CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession. The titled of my presentation will be “Unbundling and the Future of Legal Service Delivery”. You can read more about it here. I’m looking forward to some challenging and productive discussion. ...READ MORE

Law Student Survey Related to Online Legal Services

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Please take a minute to fill out this brief survey. It will help out a great team of law students that are doing some research into how people use online services to fill their legal needs.This law student team is part of the Law Without Walls program. I’m serving as an Entrepreneur Advisor this year and have been really encouraged by the participants and their eagerness to think outside of the box to come up with their “project of worth.” ...READ MORE