States That Require a Bona Fide Office
Although most states have come around — a mere five years or so after everyone else — to being comfortable with lawyers storing data in the cloud, that semi-forward thinking is not extended to being...
View ArticleClients Don’t Care if You Are “Virtual”
One of the problems with a label like “virtual” is that, as Lee Rosen points out, clients don’t care about the label. They may like your fees, or the fact that they don’t have to come to your office,...
View ArticleYour Practice Isn’t a Used-Car Lot: Puffery and Virtual Offices
Lawyers can attract new clients and engage existing ones with the click of a button, without leaving home. But as some law firms shift from traditional brick and mortar law firms to virtual...
View ArticleOpen Source and the Virtual Law Firm
At this year’s ABA TECHSHOW, Rodney Dowell and Dennis Kennedy gave a presentation on the open source powered law firm. I’ve used open source software for years for various purposes in my virtual law...
View ArticlePodcast #87: Building an Agile, Virtual Immigration Law Practice, with Greg...
With Sound Immigration, we’re trying to test the hypothesis that clients are willing to work with us in a purely online space.—Greg McLawsen Sam was ill this week and wasn’t able to record a new...
View ArticlePodcast #172: Law Firm Profile: MyVirtual.Lawyer, with Brooke Moore
In this episode, Brooke Moore gives us a snapshot of her client-centric, virtual law firm. Brooke discusses how she uses automation, the approach she uses to make improvements, and how she measures...
View ArticleInnovative Attorneys Push Forward with Virtual Law Practice
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilikeitsimple/3351771579/ There has been much debate about the recent New Jersey opinion related to that state bar’s “bona fide office” rule. Around the same time, an...
View ArticlePodcast #118: Old-School Virtual Law Practice and E-Brief Best Practices,...
In this episode we talk to Scott Bassett, who had a virtual law practice before anyone thought in those terms. We discuss the challenges he had to overcome, like getting insurance, dealing with bona...
View ArticlePodcast #28: Nicole Bradick on How to Build a Virtual Law Practice
Nicole Bradick explains what a virtual practice is and how to build one. But first, we talk about a baby who is crazy about a local personal injury lawyer, and the difficulty in combating link rot....
View ArticlePodcast #60: Building an Agile, Virtual Immigration Law Practice, with Greg...
Greg McLawsen discusses how he went about building an agile, virtual immigration law practice. Sam and Aaron also discuss Deloitte’s unique acquisition of Conduit Law. Conduit Law Purchased by...
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