Benefits
The advent of technology used in virtual law firms such as project management software, Virtual Law Offices and cloud computing have made it far easier for legal practices to save and manage data across geographic locations securely and efficiently and to communicate with clients at a distance, so that proximity to the client, or of the lawyers to each other in an office, has become far less important.
The virtual law firm has also come to be associated with lower prices, as they generally operate with lower overheads than traditional law firms. Lawyers find they can bill fewer hours but still make more money via a virtual firm because of the lower overheads.
Virtual law firms frequently have only senior lawyers, capable of working without much day-to-day supervision, unlike the traditional large law firm with its hierarchy of partners, associates and trainees. Many clients see a benefit in having their work done personally by an experienced lawyer, rather than having it delegated to a junior and then checked by a partner.
There are also environmental benefits to virtual law firms, many which operate as paperless offices in contrast to the traditional law firm with its rooms full of filing cabinets.
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