KC+Sheehan

=Part One = **Five good things about running a virtual law practice:**
 * =Homework Assignment #1 =
 * It is possible to amass an enormous library of legal resources and keep it fully up to date with little effort and moderate expense.
 * That library (or access to it) is fully portable.
 * Entire forests do not need to die to supply paper for firm and client business.
 * Research and work product is easily organized, indexed, searched and accessed.
 * Communication and collaboration can be maintained regardless of who might be "in the office" at any given time.

Five things that could go wrong running a virtual law practice:
**Links and Definitions**
 * The security and vulnerability of firm and client files are possible to maintain but require constant updating and more sophistication than just locking the doors.
 * The structure and discipline imposed by a brick-and-mortar office that opens and closes on a schedule may be hard to replace.
 * Other people may overestimate or misunderstand the flexibility of one's time and space and create distractions or make unreasonable demands.
 * Rapid changes in technology and technology providers may be hard or expensive to keep up with and impose costs not encountered in more traditional practice settings--software that is finally dialed in may cease to be supported, migration to new programs may be difficult and confusing.
 * Any business can fail.
 * Part Two  **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">eLawyering: // eLawyering is doing legal work - not just marketing - over the Web.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Source: ABA Law Practice Management Section: eLawyering Task Force
 * //<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 19px;">eLawyering: //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">eLawyering is “all the ways in which lawyers can do their work using the Web and associated technologies. These include new ways to communicate and collaborate with clients, prospective clients and other lawyers, produce documents, settle disputes and manage legal knowledge. Think of a lawyering verb—interview, investigate, counsel, draft, advocate, analyze, negotiate, manage and so forth—and there are corresponding electronic tools and techniques."
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Source: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Marc Lauritsen] [|, co-chair of the][|//eLawyering Task Force//][| in an article in Law Practice Magazine in January-February, 2004, p. 36]
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 19px;">Virtual Law Practice :// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: top;"><span class="ssml_ft_7_2">"A virtual law office is a professional law practice that is located online through a secure portal and is accessible to both the client and the attorney anywhere the parties may access the Internet."
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; vertical-align: top;"><span class="ssml_ft_7_2">Source: [|Stephanie Kimbro, Digital Law Practice CALI Session, Slide 7, February 10, 2012.]