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NJ May Revise Bona Fide Office Rule
The New Jersey State Supreme Court Professional Responsibility Rules Committee has recommended an amendment to the bona fide office rule, Rule 1:21-1(a). The proposed changes would no longer require...
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NC Cloud Computing Opinion Published
At its meeting on January 27, the NC State Bar Council adopted and published the last version of 2011 Formal Ethics 6 “Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of...
View ArticleUpdate on the Ethics of Performance-Based Marketing
Most lawyers who have researched ethics opinions related to online advertising are familiar with the Total Attorneys ethics matter, which began in April, 2009 when a single Connecticut lawyer filed an...
View ArticleFactors Determining “Reasonableness”
The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 published its revised draft resolutions for comment regarding Technology and Confidentiality at the end of last month. Under Comment [16] to Rule 1.6 “Confidentiality...
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Ethics of Virtual Practice in South Carolina Lawyer
The March issue of the South Carolina Lawyer features an article I co-wrote with Courtney Kennaday entitled “Ethics of Virtual Law Practice.” The full version of the issue is accessible online....
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Launch of Unbundling Book at ABA Techshow
Last week at the ABA Techshow in Chicago, I was pleased to launch the publication of my new book on unbundling. Writing a book on limited scope services seemed like a logical next step in the process...
View ArticlePaper on Regulatory Barriers to Multijurisdictional Virtual Law Firms
Most of my earlier writing on this blog was geared towards the solo practitioner or small firm finding ways to deliver legal services online. But I would also get questions from practitioners in larger...
View ArticleWhat Constitutes Virtual Presence?
The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has released a new issues paper entitled “Issues Paper Concerning Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5 and the Limits of Virtual Presence in a Jurisdiction.” The...
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Massachusetts Bar Association Publishes Cloud Computing Ethics Opinion
The Massachusetts Bar Association published Ethics Opinion 12-03 regarding the use of cloud computing in law practice, specifically referring to lawyers’ use of Google docs. The scenario posed in the...
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Speaking at the International Legal Ethics Conference
This week I will be attending the International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC) in Banff, Alberta. I am taking part in a panel discussion with John Browning, Darrel Pink and Victoria Rees, entitled “The...
View ArticleRegulators Concerns with Virtual Law Practice – Review from ILEC
I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC) in Banff, Alberta last week. I took part in a panel discussion with John Browning, Darrel Pink and...
View ArticleABA Annual: Delivering “Unbundled Legal Services” Over the Internet
If you are attending ABA Annual in Chicago in a few weeks, please join myself, Richard Granat and Will Hornsby, for our CLE panel discussion about delivering unbundled legal services online. The...
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Teaching Digital Lawyering with a Virtual Firm Simulation
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...
View ArticleCalifornia Publishes New Ethics Opinion on Virtual Law Offices
UPDATE: The State Bar of California has published its formal ethics opinion on virtual law offices, No. 2012-184. I wrote a post on the proposed draft of this opinion that came out this past spring....
View ArticleWebinar: How You Can Deliver Legal Services Online, ALI-CLE
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...
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NC Proposed Ethics Opinion – Use of Leased Time-Shared Office Address
There is a proposed North Carolina ethics opinion that may affect virtual practitioners who use leased time-shared offices or PO Boxes as addresses because they work from home or only need to meet with...
View ArticleVirginia Disciplinary Case on Misleading Lawyer Advertising
A recent disciplinary case out of Virginia addresses the issue of a lawyer’s use of misleading online advertising and references “virtual” law offices. In fact, the objectionable actions taken by the...
View ArticleTechnology to Unbundle Legal Services
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...
View ArticleProgress on New Book – Online Marketing Tools
I wanted to provide a quick update of what I’ve been working on and what I will hopefully be sharing more of on this blog in the near future. I have been finishing up a new book on the topic of online...
View ArticleSlides from Digital Lawyering Program
I posted a sample of slides on Slideshare from the Tech in Law Practice session for the Digital Lawyering Program that I’m teaching online for the University of Dayton School of Law this fall. Note...
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