About the Company
Virtual Law Office Technology, LLC (VLOTech) provides a secure, software as a service, web-based product that connects solo and small firm law practices with the online consumer. VLOTech was acquired by Total Attorneys in October, 2009. The goal of the software is to provide a complimentary method for the solo and small firm practitioner to compete by expanding their client base to tap into the online consumer and the need for unbundled, online legal services.
VLOTech was designed to be a flexible product that is compatible with other legal and office software products. The technology has import and export functionality so that our clients may use the service and customize it to fit in with their existing legal and office software products. Some of our clients, including one of the co-founders, use VLOTech as the primary software application for the entire virtual law office. Other attorneys integrate the technology into existing law practices as a way to generate additional online client revenue alongside a traditional brick & mortar law office.
VLOTech’s goal is to establish strong, personalized working relationships with our customers. We are happy to answer any questions about the product, our services, updates, security, data retention, reliability or management of a virtual law practice. Please read through our Faqs section and download our Security Information or free eBook, Practicing Law Online: Creating a Web-Based Virtual Law Office, for additional information.
VLOTech Founders
VLOTech was created by Benjamin Norman and Stephanie Kimbro in 2007 after the results of a two year research and case study demonstrated an interest by the public and legal professionals for the Virtual Law Office Technology. In October 2009, the Company was acquired by Total Attorneys, a Chicago-based company providing products and services to attorneys.
Benjamin Norman has over ten years of software programming and technology support experience developing secure web-based applications. He has developed programs for secure tax and court filing for government entities and developed and maintained background checking software. Benjamin uses secure programming techniques and best practices along with continual code auditing to ensure that the software behind VLOTech contains the most current security measures available.
Stephanie Kimbro, Esq., MA, JD has operated a Web-based virtual law office in North Carolina since 2006 and delivers estate planning and small-business law to clients online. She is the recipient of the 2009 ABA Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering and has won the Wilmington Parent Magazine Family Favorite Attorney Award four years in a row for her virtual law office.
In addition to her virtual law practice, Kimbro is a consultant and technology evangelist providing assistance to other legal professionals interested in the online delivery of legal services. Kimbro writes about the ethics and technology issues of delivering legal services online and is interested in the use of technology by legal professionals to increase access to justice in our country. She has presented continuing legal education (CLE) courses on virtual law practice for the American Bar Association (ABA) and the North Carolina and South Carolina Bar Associations, and she teaches a course on virtual law practice as a faculty member of Solo Practice University, a Web-based legal education community.
Kimbro serves on the board of the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (LSNTAP) and is a member of the ABA eLawyering Task Force, the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) Law Practice Management (LPM) Council and NCBA Technology Advisory Committee. She is the author of the book, Delivering Legal Services Online, to be published by the ABA, Summer 2010.