Rachel Rodgers on Starting Your Own Online Legal Practice
Rachel Rodgers runs an online law practice focusing on entrepreneurial business law. While many of her clients are under 40-years-old, she had several reasons for operating a virtual law office.
First, she needed flexibility. For her, this meant the ability to indulge her passion for traveling, which means she is sometimes gone for an entire month. Now, several years down the road, she plans to take advantage of that flexibility when her first child arrives. Now, she can balance family and work within just a few rooms in her home.
But she needed more than flexibility. While most law firms had websites today, Rodgers wanted online client interactions to be true interactions and not just cold forms and buttons. The Client Portal allows her to build real interactions with clients that can take place at any time, day or night. In fact, she says she gets many new clients have their first interactions with her firm during the night or on the weekends, well outside the traditional 9-5 hours. This is business she otherwise might miss.
She's done all this while working with TotalAttorneys.com so that her online security isn't an issue, it's simply "taken care of." With the tools in place, she can focus on her firm's philosophy: "worry-free communication with your lawyer, access and convenience 24/7 and the royal treatment."