Why Traditional Legal Professionals Don't Stand a Chance August 2014 | Page 4

The Empowered Client

The client has become empowered.
It’s guidance by clicks. Search Google
- find out what you need to know and
eliminate pricey teleconference calls
to lawyers who in turn do not need to
call upon LitSupport, Paralegals and
other Legal Professionals.

This trend may also be a result
of years of new working methods:
telecommuting. Either way, it is a
new way to reach clients. No
longer is it necessary for lawyers
to have bricks and mortar law
firms. Clients simply reach out
through the Internet.
The Net Generation

Virtual Paralegals & eLawyering

A hot arena now is the Virtual
Paralegal who can work from home
for any law firm in the country.
eLawyering is another viable
resource for clients and law firms alike
and is becoming more popular. This
may be a result of the recession when
many law students (no matter what
law school attended), could not get
jobs and turned to virtual lawyering.

The twenty-something
generation has grown up with
computers while Baby Boomers
did not. It’s important to realize
that the Net Generation is used to
communicating via online
communities while Baby
Boomers are used to
communicating oneon-one, face-to-face.