Law Firms Providing Unbundled Services Online to Meet Public Demand
Gary Munneke, Chair of the Law Practice Management Committee, at the New York State Bar Association has written a thought-provoking article entitled “Dueling Sanctions . . . And More” in a recent...
View ArticleOnline Bidding for Clients
Today’s Wall Street Journal published an article on Shpoonkle, an online auction site similar to eBay where lawyers can bid on clients. Both Susan Cartier Liebel and Scott Greenfield had blogged about...
View ArticleOnline “Daily Deals” on Legal Services
South Carolina has published a new Formal Ethics Opinion 11-05 about attorney’s using services, such as Groupon, to offer discounts and deals on their legal services. To my knowledge, the ethics...
View ArticleUpdating the Marketing Strategy for a Virtual Law Practice
This Saturday I’m giving a live lecture focused on virtual law practice marketing strategy for my students in Concord Law School’s Small Business LLM program. I’m having the students slowly add in...
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Standing Committee Recommends Deletion of Problematic Advertising Rule
Remember how I wrote that virtual practitioners may need to collaborate with “branded network concepts” when updating their marketing strategies? I also argue that this is necessary in the conclusion...
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...
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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...
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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 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...
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Consumer Law Revolution Ebook
I’ve created a new page on this blog for my new ebook: Consumer Law Revolution. This ebook is the precursor to my full book that should be published by the ABA LPM sometime later this year. The ebook...
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Attorney @ Work: The Next Lawyering Frontier
In case you missed reading it on the Attorney at Work blog, here is a link to my interview for them. I’ve gotten a huge response from this article in the form of emails from lawyers across the country...
View ArticleUpdates on Events
Below are a couple of the events I’m scheduled to attend this month. I have not had time to blog because I’ve been finishing up the edits to my book about online marketing tools and branded networks....
View ArticleCollaborating with Branded Networks on LXBN TV
This is the video of my brief interview with Colin O’Keefe about the topic of my presentation for Avvo’s Lawyernomics Conference next week in Las Vegas.
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New York Publishes New Ethics Opinion – Had a Pow-Wow with NJ?
The NY State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics has published a new ethics Opinion 964 on April 4, 2013 that affects virtual law offices. (HT to Niki Black for bringing it to my...
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Online Legal Marketplace Book Release
My new book about the online legal marketplace, Consumer Law Revolution, was released today from the publisher and pre-orders should be shipping this week. I’m excited to share this book with the legal...
View ArticleVideo: ReInvent Law Presentation
This is the video of my “ignite-style” presentation at the ReInvent Law Conference in Silicon Valley a couple months ago. I’m speaking at a super fast pace about branded networks, lawyer advertising,...
View ArticlePodcast: How People Search for Lawyers: The Consumer Law Revolution
Here is the podcast for an edition of The Digital Edge with Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway where we discuss the subject of my new book, The Consumer Law Revolution: The Lawyer’s Guide to the Online...
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Chapter from New International Report on Online Legal Services
This summer I wrote a report for Managing Partner, a UK-based publishing company focused on law firm management. The report is for lawyers who are interested in learning about and possibly adding...
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Five Tips for Lawyers Purchasing Online Lead Gen Services
Five Tips for Lawyers Purchasing Online Lead Generation Services 1. Find out how much traffic the branded network’s site generates. Check with a company like Quantcast, which provides an estimate of...
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