Law Firm Employee Monitoring Gone Ridiculous

November 14, 2009
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No internet or e-mail for staff?  What kind of draconian law firm is this? I recently heard from a very reliable source about a law firm that does not let staff have access to internet and e-mail.  The italicized words are not typos.  Okay, I admit my law firm is small and so it's fairly easy for me to know if my staff is doing their job. I can appreciate that lawyers expect staff to do their jobs.  However, I can't even start to comprehend why firms monitor employees by blocking any websites at all.  This type of employee monitoring software, restricts the work employees can do on … [Read more...]

A Virtual Law Office: Advantages and Disadvantages

January 24, 2010

The growth in the virtual law office concept is pretty big these days.  There are a number of reasons why this is the case, but the biggest is that technology is now at a point where 100 percent of certain legal services can be delivered electronically. 1.  What is a virtual law office? A virtual law office is a when legal services are delivered solely electronically via the internet, telephone, online meetings, video conferencing, e-mail, fax, and even cloud computing document storage and sharing websites. Some might argue that a pure virtual law office requires no verbal contact … [Read more...]

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