CLAUSS. How to Write a Client Engagement Letter For A Virtual Law Practice. Writing a good client engagement letter can be more complicated when you run a virtual law practice and will be delivering legal services online.
Incorporating the use of technology by your firm into the provisions of an engagement letter is important to provide the client with notice of how you will communicate and handle their case online. Even if you have a traditional, brick & mortar law office and intend to only use your virtual law practice to complete specific tasks online, your clients need to understand how the use of this technology will affect the representation. Type of Technology Describe the type of technology that clients will be using to work with you online.
New ABA Ethics Opinion on Electronic Communication. The ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Prof.
Responsibility has published a new ethics opinion, Formal Opinion 11-459 “Duty to Protect the Confidentiality of E-mail Communications with One’s Client”. I didn’t see this one coming, but I think it’s a move in the right direction. The situation described in the opinion relates to when an attorney has reason to believe that his or her client is sending the attorney or anyone else confidential information via email and the client’s employer has keystroke logging on their system or some other way of monitoring the employee’s activities where there is a risk that the employer could access that confidential information.
Standards. Welcome. Kimbro Legal Services – A Virtual Law Office. Virtual Law Practice.