Category: Online Legal Services

Two relatively new web sites offer the legal market a way to market services, share documents, and build community. To some extent, each is trying to apply the Facebook or MySpace paradigm to lawyers.  First, some history. Fifteen years ago David Johnson, David Post, and...

I write less now than I did a few years ago about online services. I’ve not lost interest; rather, it just seems there are few new developments to report. That said, over the last few months, some interesting items did cross my desk.  Linklaters launches...

I have long thought that rule-based systems have great promise for creating online legal advisory systems. So I am glad to see the entry of a new, web-based system for creating systems.  Jureeka.net “is a web service that lets lawyers and law students automate their...

A new product illustrates one way to automate legal advice.  DECISIONmaker Software, LLC recently released artificial intelligence software to guide HR professionals in complying with the Family Medical Leave and Americans with Disabilities Acts. The company and its founder, Alan Rolnick, an experienced labor lawyer,...

The online legal services market (for interactive legal advice) has been quiet – until now.   Earlier this decade, many law firms developed and promoted online legal services. To my chagrin (some readers know that I had a personal stake in virtual legal advisors when...

Contracting and Legal Issues: Navigating the Negotiation Process. That’s the topic of a presentation by Janet Parkhurst, Esq. at the ALM Outsourcing Conference 215pm session.  [This blog post comes to you live from the ALM-sponsored Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum (May 23, 2007, NYC). Notes and...

During the dot-com boom, several start-ups offered business to consumer (B2C) legal web sites. Offerings varied but all failed. Now, we are seeing a re-birth, backed by heavy hitters.  Avvo is a new start-up founded by executives with experience at successful web businesses. Today, Avvo...

Legal technology worlds collide: online legal services meet records management and e-discovery.  E-mail archiving solution vendor Fortiva offers an online tool (“Policy Builder“) to generate a corporate electronic communication policy covering topics such as acceptable e-mail use and records retention. The tool is free; registration...