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UPL and Legal Document Preparation by Non-Lawyer Providers

The ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection just released a survey it conducted on unlicensed practice of law programs ( UPL) in United States jurisdictions in 2011-12. Only 29 jurisdictions...

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LegalZoom: Where There’s Smoke, There is Often Fire.

Rozman Legal Group, P.C., a law firm that was formerly a member of the LegalZoom network of attorneys,  recently filed a law suit against LegalZoom in U.S. District Court, for breach of the Panel...

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May the LegalForce Be With You!

 Here is a tale of an exceptional entrepreneur/solo lawyer who has built a thriving Internet-based law practice of large scale in less than seven years. Raj Abhyanker, 37,  started his law practice in...

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LegalZoom’s Achilles’ Heel: Free Legal Forms

For those of you following the LegalZoom IPO, which was scheduled for Friday, August 2, 2012, it was postponed for the usual stated reason that market conditions were not suitable. This really means...

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Best Practice Guidelines for Legal Document Service Providers

The American Bar Association’s eLawyering Task Force has compiled a draft set of best practice guidelines for legal document providers, which can be downloaded here*.   An increasingly popular – and...

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Update on North Carolina Bar’s Resistance to Change

In a previous post, I discussed the North Carolina’s Bar fight against an amendment to the definition of the practice of law that stated: “(b) The phrase “practice law” does not encompass any of the...

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The Uberization of Legal Services

The legal profession will not be immune from the rise of the uberized economy. Consumers want to purchase only the legal services they need. This means that the trend towards offering “unbundled” or...

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Private Capital for Funding Law Firms Serving Low and Moderate Income Clients

One of the obstacles to the development of innovative software solutions that automate part of the legal service delivery process resulting in lower, more affordable legal fees is the absence of...

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North Carolina Restricts the Distribution of Legal Self-Help Software to...

Under the guise of consumer protection, North Carolina has passed new legislation, at the direction of the North Carolina Bar, that imposes restrictions on distributing self-help legal software over...

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LegalZoom® Has a New Business Model

A Recurring Revenue Business Model LegalZoom® which started as a legal document web site based on individual transactions is gradually shifting towards a new business model based upon recurring...

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