Here Clive Rich, lawyer and chairman of
online legal service provider LawBite, gives Lawyer Monthly a rundown of the latest important changes every small or medium enterprise needs to keep an eye out for, and potentially take action on or risk being fined.
In addition to letting lawyers focus on practicing law, business people can help lawyers develop and market legal services that are responsive to consumer demand and that can compete with those provided
by online legal service providers.
Although online legal service providers like LegalZoom and NoLo can give you a boilerplate will for a couple hundred bucks, it's worth spending a little bit more to get personalized advice from a local attorney.
Here Clive Rich, lawyer and chairman
of online legal service provider LawBite, gives Lawyer Monthly a rundown of the latest important changes every small or medium...
Solo practitioners or those who practice in a small firm («small» being relative to the market, of course) are all too familiar with the challenges posed
by online legal service providers.
Could advertising subsidize
an online legal services provider?
The terms of service on almost
all online legal service provider sites have very broad waivers of liability.
We do have
online legal services providers, case management programs, case law analysis (starting to use predictive analysis), e-discovery, and so on, but I daresay most of the great projects that will eventually come out are still in the making.
John Stewart: I think that's another area of overlap between Lanse's committee and our technology committee because this gap, this need, this fat middle as we've called it of the population is being underserved by lawyers is where — in the technology world —
the online legal service providers are coming in.
Our assortment of innovative legal minds didn't stop there, we also enjoyed a talk from a disrupter in the legal market, Mark Edwards, Vice President and UK General Manager at Rocketlawyer,
the online legal services provider based in trendy, high tech Shoreditch, East London.
So this week, when we stumbled upon this infographic The True Cost of an Attorney, the data on what small businesses spend on legal services — the sort of services
these online legal service providers are targeting — some of the numbers jumped off the page at us.
I'll also say that when we started, some of our other experts — not yourself — in 2013 said hey,
online legal service providers are definitely going to be something on your radar in the next five or ten years.
I've actually had two calls with lawyers based upon the recent Florida Bar news article that came out about my presentation on the proliferation of
these online legal service providers and they're both doing this themselves already.
His plans for the future include looking at the proliferation of
online legal service providers and finding ways for Florida lawyers to compete or collaborate.
Right now, the primary focus is we're looking at the proliferation of
online legal service providers and how that's going to affect Florida lawyers and how Florida lawyers can either participate or compete.
One
online legal services provider you omit, but is worth mention, is Rocket Lawyer.