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Does the Internet Make You Feel Risky?

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Oh, yet another excuse to not take responsibility for individual action and blame it on the technology instead.  *sigh*  Seriously, this article just annoyed me to no end.  The National Law Journal published an article entitled “Lawyers’ Ethical Stumbles Increase Online” and then proceeded to give the most outrageous example of an incredibly irresponsible attorney using email to share […] ...READ MORE

Update on Ethics Inquiry into Cloud Computing

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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

Technology at Techshow to Enable Online Delivery of Legal Services

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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

Online Document Signing for Your Virtual Law Practice

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One of the questions I hear regularly about virtual law practice is related to the execution of legal documents and how that process can be handled through a virtual law office.  I’ve written before on this blog about the establishment of the attorney/client relationship online and how an attorney may rely on a clickwrap agreement to […] ...READ MORE

SaaS and the Virtual Law Office

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There has been an interesting dicussion on the ABA’s SOLOSEZ listserv lately about web-based legal software. Some of it has been a tad hostile with a couple members completely opposed to web-based software and others hailing it as the future of legal software. There have been two fairly recent web-based legal software releases: Rocket Matters […] ...READ MORE

VLO as a Web Application

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TechnoLawyer’s 2008 Predictions for technology as it pertains to the legal profession came out this week. I was pleased to read that web applications were at the top of the list. Here’s an excerpt 3. Web Applications Inch Towards Greater Acceptance Web applications will continue to make inroads in 2008, but they will not displace […] ...READ MORE

Supporting Virtual Law Practices

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Keeping up with blogging has been impossible between running my online law practice, raising an 18 month old and forming a new software company. I’ll do my best to provide a brief update. In June, we filed a patent for the virtual law office software and business method. We formed a company called Virtual Law […] ...READ MORE