Virtual Law Practice: Topics In Digital Law Practice #1

Topics In Digital Law Practice (TDLP) takes a new approach to legal education: a nine-session webinar inviting participant interaction and collaboration, open to any person anywhere, developed for law faculty and students, but of utility to lawyers and technologists as well.
Title:
Virtual Law Practice
Date/Time/Place: 
 Friday, February 10, 2012
2pm-3pm Eastern (Note Time Zone!)
Webcast With Homework
Recording Now Available!    Speaker: 

Stephanie L. Kimbro

Stephanie L. Kimbro has operated a virtual law office in North Carolina since 2006. She is the recipient of the 2009 ABA Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering and has won the Wilmington Parent Magazine Family Favorite Attorney Award five years in a row for her virtual law office. She is the author of Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online, ABA/LPM Publishing (2010) and was named a “Legal Rebel” in 2010 by the ABA Journal. She is also the co-founder of Virtual Law Office Technology, LLC (VLOTech), which was acquired by Total Attorneys, a Chicago-based company, in the fall of 2009.
In addition to her virtual law practice, Kimbro is a technology consultant providing assistance to other legal professionals interested in the online delivery of legal services. Kimbro writes about the ethics and technology issues of delivering legal services online and is interested in the use of technology by legal professionals to increase access to justice in our country. She has presented continuing legal education (CLE) courses on a variety of topics for the ABA, ALI-ABA, and different state bar groups and law schools. Kimbro also teaches a course on virtual law practice as a faculty member of Solo Practice University, a Web-based legal education community, and is currently teaching a course on virtual law practice for Concord Law School’s Small Business LLM program.
Kimbro serves on the advisory board of the International Legal Technology Standards Organization (ILTSO) and is a member of the ABA eLawyering Task Force, the Vice Chair of the ABA LPM’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Task Force, a member of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) Law Practice Management (LPM) Council, and the NCBA Tech Advisory Committee.
See the Virtual Law Practice Blog for a list of published articles and presentations by Stephanie Kimbro.
Credit:
Washington State:
Live program approved to 1 general credit, Activity ID 309811. Recordings of typically granted 1 AV credit.
Other states:
Attorneys are responsible for applying for credit on their own. This appears to me to be a reasonable approach; let those of us who want the credit, apply for the credit! Either way, the educational value of the experience and community is unchanged.Topic:
This course provides an overview of the changes that are occurring in the practice of law today, especially with respect to technology.
Structure:
The TDLP series runs for one hour a week for nine weeks and will feature a different guest speaker each week. Each class will be delivered via webcast and will have a 30 minute lecture presentation followed by a question & answer period and an online, interactive homework assignment for all course students to complete. IMO this interactivity offers an exceptional educational value; how often have you wanted to hang around after a CLE and talk things over with the other participants, but didn't because you had to rush off to some other business!
Access:
The audience for this seminar is primarily law students and law faculty who will be given priority. Anyone else can join the course for one or all of the sessions. The presentations will be recorded and posted to the course blog.
Cost:
Free.
Registration:
Register for the course.
Host:
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consortium of over 200 US law schools. Non-US law schools, law firms, business schools, paralegal programs and individuals can also join CALI to support its mission. More information about CALI membership: http://www.cali.org/faq/8054.

More:
Please see this FAQ if you have more questions about the course.