Virtual Law Office Technology, LLC » ABA http://www.vlotech.com Virtual Law Office Technology is a web-based, SaaS application which connects the legal profession to the online public. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:59:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Virtual Law Practice Teleconference and Live Audio Webcast http://www.vlotech.com/blog/virtual-law-practice-teleconference-and-live-audio-webcast/ http://www.vlotech.com/blog/virtual-law-practice-teleconference-and-live-audio-webcast/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:16:17 +0000 Stephanie Kimbro http://www.vlotech.com/?p=595 This upcoming Thursday, December 17th at 1pm EST, Richard Granat, Marc Lauritsen and Stephanie Kimbro will be co-presenting a CLE teleconference and live audio webcast entitled “The Virtual Law Firm: Benefits, Costs and Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid.”   It is sponsored by the American Bar Association LPM Section and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education.

From the program description, the topics that will be covered include:

  • What is a “virtual law firm”
  • The benefits of delivering legal services online
  • The web architecture for a virtual law firm
  • Online applications, such as web-enabled document automation
  • Ethical issues in the delivery of online legal services, including confidentiality, security, unauthorized practice of law, client identification, conflict of interest checking and client authentication procedures
  • Criteria of vendor selection
  • The costs associated with setting up a virtual law practice
  • Marketing your brand and virtual law practice online

If  you are interested in virtual law practice or are operating a virtual law firm, please consider attending this session.  In addition to practical advice on this form of delivering legal services using technology, the session will also provide 1.5 hours of CLE credit in most states.

]]> http://www.vlotech.com/blog/virtual-law-practice-teleconference-and-live-audio-webcast/feed/ 0 VLOTech at ABA TechShow in Chicago http://www.vlotech.com/blog/vlotech-at-aba-techshow-in-chicago/ http://www.vlotech.com/blog/vlotech-at-aba-techshow-in-chicago/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:42:17 +0000 Stephanie Kimbro http://www.vlotech.com/?p=328 VLOTech will have a booth at the ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, April 2-4.  Please stop by and say hello if you will be attending.  We will be providing walkthroughs of the VLOTech web-based virtual law office software as well as running a short, five minute demo.

The TECHSHOW will give us an opportunity to share with the legal profession how our software may be used to securely obtain and work with clients online and how to operate an entirely web-based virtual law practice or integrate the software into an existing law practice.

Also at the TECHSHOW, our co-founder, Stephanie Kimbro,  will be presented with this year’s American Bar Association’s James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering for her VLO which is powered by VLOTech. The James I. Keane Memorial Award will be presented during the annual ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago following the keynote presentation by Richard Susskind, author of the recent publication End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services.

]]> http://www.vlotech.com/blog/vlotech-at-aba-techshow-in-chicago/feed/ 0 ABA Hearing on the Delivery of Legal Services Through Technology http://www.vlotech.com/blog/aba-hearing-on-the-delivery-of-legal-services-through-technology/ http://www.vlotech.com/blog/aba-hearing-on-the-delivery-of-legal-services-through-technology/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:11:31 +0000 Stephanie Kimbro http://www.vlotech.com/?p=78 The ABA’s Standing Committee on The Delivery of Legal Services will hold an online hearing on Friday, September 26 from 12:00-2:00pm eastern time to examine the use of technology to deliver legal services online. The Committee will listen to technology providers and attorneys regarding the technologies used and any policies that govern its use. The Committee will determine from the hearings whether the creation of policies is needed to assist practitioners in providing online legal services.

VLOTech plans to submit to the hearing committee its ebook entitled “Practicing Law Online: Creating a Web-Based Virtual Law Office.” The ebook discusses in detail the Web 2.0 technology used by VLOTech attorneys to practice law online and discusses ethical considerations and best practice tips recommended for providing online legal services.  If you would like a copy of the ebook, please email Stephanie Kimbro at skimbro@vlotech.net. If you would like to view the online hearing, details about the presenters and schedule will be posted on The Standing Committee on The Delivery of Legal Services’ website.

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