Virtual practice
Virtual in-house legal services
In my previous professional incarnation, as a European in-house counsel for an international telecommunications company, I noticed that many of the smaller telecommunications companies with whom my client did business, did not have their own in-house counsel, even though they knew that their businesses would benefit from the right type of legal support. Their reasoning […]
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The ultimately flexible (virtual) law firm
Delia Venables interviews Heather Rose Towcester Family Law Practice specialises in giving legal help and advice across a range of family law issues, in areas including divorce, domestic violence and abuse, children related issues, separation and maintenance. Based in Towcester, Northamptonshire, TFLP is friendly, approachable, professional and exclusively home based, meeting with clients to discuss […]
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Virtually unrecognisable?
The way things were I can remember my old legal life as if it was yesterday. Groaning filing cabinets stuffed full of cardboard files, a roomful of secretaries devoted to typing letters and filing correspondence, various miscellaneous admin staff, and a firm made up of lawyers who were obliged to be physically present in the […]
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Virtual chambers – the model for the future?
In the traditional model of a chambers, individual barristers cluster together to share premises, staff and administrative services. With the maturity of the internet, however, and particularly with the advent of cheap and easy broadband, barristers do not have to be physically close to each other in order to share staff and admin. In many […]
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A virtual chambers – BarristerWeb
BarristerWeb was the first virtual chambers, having started around 7 years ago. They describe themselves as a “traditional chambers at internet speed”; they do just about everything which a traditional chambers does, but without a large physical presence. They have a small office for the Chambers Director, Neil Goodman-Smith, the Senior Clerk Andrew Hutchins and […]
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A virtual chambers – Clerksroom
This article describes the way that Clerksroom operates. I will be writing a second article for the next issue covering BarristerWeb and, in a third article, I will be looking at other chambers who are incorporating some “virtual chambers” ideas into their more conventional operation – a sort of virtual chambers by stealth. Clerksroom do […]
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Virtual law firms – where we are now
Over the last few months, we have had several virtual law firms writing about their experiences; this article is an attempt to bring it all together and to assess the similarities – and the differences – between the firms. The firms covered and a note of the earlier articles are given at the end of […]
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Schneider Page – going virtual bit by bit
Schneider Page was founded in 1993, and was located in a traditional bricks and mortar premises in Staple Inn. However it was never intended to work just as a traditional firm. We set out to use technology as much as possible, without being at the “bleeding edge”. We never had support staff and since there […]
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