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60 Websites for the Virtual Attorney to Check Out

Stephanie Kimbro — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:30:54 +0000

Last week, Stephanie Kimbro, co-founder of VLOTech and owner of Kimbro Legal Services, a NC Virtual Law Office, presented a CLE session at the NC Bar Center with Lee Rosen and Erik Mazzone, the Director of the Center for Practice Management at the NC Bar.

The conference was for the NC Bar Association’s Annual Practical Skills CLE which is geared towards newly minted attorneys and others wanting to brush up on practical lawyering skills. The presentation was titled 60 Websites in 60 Minutes.

The goal was to share useful websites with the attorneys in the audience along with throwing in some fun, stress-relieving sites. The following is a list of the websites that were presented.

60 Websites in 60 Minutes – 2008 NC Bar Practice Skills CLE

Google Maps

Jott

Truecrypt

Cornell Legal Research Engine

iStockPhoto

Firefox 3+ No Scripts

PCTool’s Password Generator

Public Library of Law

Project Draw

Second Life Bar Association

Solo Practice University

ABA Elawyering Task Force

Technology and Ethics Considerations in Virtual Law Practice

Stephanie Kimbro — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:52:11 +0000

This past week, VLOTech co-founder and attorney, Stephanie Kimbro, presented a CLE session on technology and ethics considerations in virtual law practice at the NC Bar Association’s GP/Solo and Small Firm Symposium.

The session introduced the concept of virtual law practice to attending attorneys and provided best practice tips for the virtual law practitioner to avoid ethical and malpractice risks when providing online legal services.

We are providing the CLE manuscript with virtual law practice tips to VLOTech attorneys and will be adding more informative blog posts based on the topics from this CLE session. Several slides from the CLE presentation are posted below.

After the presentation, Stephanie had the pleasure of meeting several attorneys who are interested in adding virtual law practices to their solo or small firms. Two of these attorneys are located in the remote mountain region of North Carolina. Their clients are spread out over a large geographic area where it is not always practical to meet with clients in person. Right now they are relying primarily on email communication.

Using a VLO to connect with their clients across the region would not only benefit their law practices but help to provide legal services to lower and middle income individuals in their communities who otherwise might not have access. We look forward to speaking more with these attorneys to learn how VLOTech may be able to assist them in providing online legal services.

If you have questions about how a VLOTech virtual law office would benefit your solo or small firm practice, please contact us at launch@vlotech.com.

VLOTech Co-founder to Present CLE on Virtual Law Practice

Stephanie Kimbro — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:26:09 +0000

VLOTech co-founder, Stephanie Kimbro, will present a CLE entitled Virtual Law Practice: Technology and Ethics Considerations for the NC Bar Association’s GP/Solo and Small Firm Symposium on July 25th at the Bar Center in Cary, NC.

The CLE session will cover the web-based technology used to create a virtual law office (VLO) and explore best practice methods for the virtual attorney to avoid potential ethical and malpractice risks.

Understanding the technology used to practice law on a secure web-based VLO is important to ensure the operation of a professional and ethical virtual law practice. Some of the ethics topics to be discussed at the CLE include the following:

Unauthorized practice of law in other jurisdictions,
Establishing the attorney/client relationship,
Protecting client confidences,
Data security & encryption,
Securing mobile devices,
Verifying the client’s identity online,
VLO website content,
Conflict of interest checking,
Metadata risks, and
Online payments.

Stephanie has operated her virtual law practice in North Carolina for the past three years using the VLOTech software. She is working with other attorneys nationwide to establish other solo and small firm virtual law offices (VLOs). If you are in the Cary, NC area next week or would like more information about obtaining the CLE manuscript from this session, please contact Stephanie at slk@kimbrolaw.com.