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Online Legal Advice– Will it Change the Way Lawyers Do Business?

published March 31, 2009

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
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A new book was written by Jeff Jarvis regarding the tremendous world changes being prompted by the internet and specifically by Google. Jeff made a statement in his book:

''What Would Google Do? I argue that lawyers can’t be like Google, mainly because they have to do what clients want and can’t be transparent.''


This statement was challenged by a lawyer, Kevin Thompson, who said he disagreed. So the book's author asked him to describe a Google like lawyer. Kevin Thompson's answer gives insight to the lawyer's view of how online legal advice might change the way lawyers do business.

Jeff Jarvis says lawyers practice behind a veil and their truth is formed by what the client needs it to be. A client doesn't want to pay for mistakes, and anything found that doesn't support the client's side is a mistake and he doesn't want to pay for it. Therefore, a lawyer is forced on one side today and may choose a new position the next day, depending on who his client is that day. This is the veil lawyers tend to keep up between themselves and their clients.

Jeff Jarvis, the books author, says this is the opposite of the Google like lawyer who must be transparent to his clients if he is doing business online. This doesn't mean lawyers aren't moving to online opportunities. There are already virtual online law firms. It serves them well because the overhead of having offices and office staff is eliminated ''The virtual firm can pass the savings to the client,'' says lawyer, Kevin Thompson. It's true that many things don't lend themselves to breaking down the veil between lawyers and clients. However there is much that can work in the legal field with the 'transparency' way of doing business online.

In conclusion Kevin Thompson sees opportunities for the legal system to work online. One example Kevin gives is injury law for large corporations like Wal-Mart. Their legal department handles many injury cases from shoppers who slip and get injured or for any other reason they are injured while in a Wal-mart. Kevin suggests that there would be less cost for Wal-mart and other businesses if one lawyer online handled all these injury cases for them. It's the same idea that managers use when they put all similar tasks to be done together because it's more efficient.

Will the online market change the way lawyers do business? The answer is clear. It already has made a change for many lawyers. You can go online and see the multitude of legal advice accessible with high speed internet. Transparency and lower cost is important to the client in many legal transactions and it can be found on the internet. The lawyers may be slow to come, but many internet gurus believe they are coming.

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Harrison is the founder of BCG Attorney Search and several companies in the legal employment space that collectively gets thousands of attorneys jobs each year. Harrison’s writings about attorney careers and placement attract millions of reads each year. Harrison is widely considered the most successful recruiter in the United States and personally places multiple attorneys most weeks. His articles on legal search and placement are read by attorneys, law students and others millions of times per year.

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published March 31, 2009

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
( 14 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5)
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