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ABA Ethics 20/20 Addresses Choice of Law Issue in Virtual Law Practice

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Virtual lawyers and multijurisdictional virtual law firms take note: The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has released yet another issues paper proposing changes to ethics rules that could affect the delivery of legal services online.  This newest paper comes from the Working Group on Uniformity, Choice of Law, and Conflicts of Interest and is entitled “Choice of […] ...READ MORE

Upcoming Events Related to ELawyering, Virtual Law Practice

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– University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law presentation on virtual law offices, next Thursday, February 10th at noon.  – Unbundling Legal Services: Ethics and Best Practices, ALI-ABA Teleconference, February 24, noon-1:30pm EST. – AVVO webinar on unbundling legal services which will also discuss the use of technology to unbundle and deliver […] ...READ MORE

Death, Succession Planning & the Virtual Law Office

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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

CA Ethics Opinion: Duty of Confidentiality & Use of Wireless

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The California State Bar has published its newest ethics opinion, FEO 2010-179, related to the use of technology in law practice, specifically addressing the attorney’s duty of confidentiality to clients when using technology that may be accessed by a third-party.  Given the wording of the opinion, this could include everything from an attorney using wireless to connect […] ...READ MORE

Service of Process in a Virtual Law Firm

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More virtual law firms are springing up that combine a traditional litigation practice with the features of a virtual law office.  Members of these virtual firms use the online law office as a way to communicate and collaborate on case matters and to work remotely.  Their clients use the client portal as a way to […] ...READ MORE

Adapt or Get out of the Way: Standards to Protect Client Property/Confidentiality Change

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Last week during a guest lecture on virtual law practice at the University of Dayton School of Law, the subject of protecting client property and confidentiality of client data in electronic communications came up again.   My prediction (perhaps overly optimistic) is that in the next few years the state bars will recognize that unencrypted email communication between attorney […] ...READ MORE

New ABA Ethics Opinion on Websites

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The ABA has published a short description of its efforts to examine the impact of technology, including cloud computing & SaaS, social media and websites, and has released a new ethics opinion related to attorney websites.   Last week I wrote a post about the Commission’s call for comments related to cloud computing and protecting client confidences.  On October 14th, […] ...READ MORE