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Elawyering Ethics: Determining Competency and Contractual Capacity Through a VLO

July 30, 2008 by Stephanie Kimbro Leave a Comment

A couple good ethics questions came out of my CLE presentation at the GP/Solo and Small Firm Symposium this past week concerning the competency and contractual capacity of a virtual attorney’s clients. I thought I would share those questions and my thoughts. How can you determine the competency and contractual capacity of a client before providing online […] ...READ MORE

Ethics Question for the Virtual Attorney

May 2, 2008 by Stephanie Kimbro 2 Comments

Practicing online I often receive this question as an ethics challenge to my virtual practice: How can you be sure that the person you are communicating with online is really person you are drafting the documents for? Because I handle estate planning, attorneys who operate more traditional practices express specific concern about the power of […] ...READ MORE