Roger Glovsky's blog

Have you heard about virtual law offices? There is now something even better on the horizon...virtual attorneys. No, not real attorneys connected over the Internet, but computer generated personalities that can respond to real humans and even read their documents.

It is just a prototype, but check out this video if you want a glimpse of what the legal profession might look like in the year 2050. Very funny!

http://www.robmillard.com/archives/off-the-wall-insights-xbox-attorneys....

I saw this video on Jason Mendelson's blog today. Although there are those of us lawyers who still believe in the ideals that motivate students to become lawyers, this is one of the funniest commentaries I have ever heard.

We are in the process of exploring new office space for our firm, Indigo Venture Law Offices. As many of you know, our firm has taken an innovative approach to packaging legal services and we have recently formed "of counsel" relationships with other attorneys.

As part of our new business model, we plan to have multiple locations with shared office arrangements. The idea is to have many small offices which are located closer to our clients rather than one centralized location.

We just posted Part 3 of the series on winding down a business. Although the concept of winding down a business is a pessimistic proposition, it is often a necessary action. This week's blog provides a good checklist of information for approaching the wind down process. You can find it at: http://www.askthevc.com/blog/archives/2009/11/preparing-to-wi.php.

For earlier posts:

Part 1: How to Wind Down Your Company

As many of you know, I recently moved to Boulder, Colorado, which has a very strong entrepreneurial community. Some people have compared Boulder to a "young Silicon Valley." Like Boston and SF, the venture capitalists play a leading role in encouraging entrepreneurship.

We have a client who is looking for recommendations for a financial advisor to help their company develop a retirement benefits strategy (401K and pensions) and advise us on tax implications. They would preferably like to work with an "independent consultant".

If any of you have financial advisors that you would recommend, please post a comment here or send email to me at roger@ivlo.com.

The Blackberry Pearl has been a tremendous help to my law practice, improving both communications and productivity. I just posted a blog explaining why I like this new cell phone at:

http://thevirtuallawyer.blogspot.com/2009/06/working-out-of-your-pocket....

A BLN member would like to start accepting credit cards as payment for legal services and asked whether I could recommend a merchant processing vendor. Our firm does not accept credit cards, but this is a topic that seems to be coming up more often. I thought other BLN member may be able to make some recommendations, which I can post on the LEXpertise website.

Do any of you accept credit cards for professional services? Are there vendors you would recommend?

[RPG: Excellent list of responses. Be sure to read James Bolan's comment and the article on ethics issues relating to gredit card payments]

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