Total Attorneys

CHICAGO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--On July 29th, Total Attorneys released its 2011 Small Law Firm Technology Report. The free report is based on survey responses from more than 300 small law firm and solo attorneys and addresses such issues as the use of digital file management systems, remote access and collaboration, use of mobile devices and other law practice management tools and processes.

The data indicates that clear changes are occurring in the legal profession, particularly with regard to the traditional brick and mortar law practice with standard business hours. More than a quarter of attorneys surveyed said they worked from home, laptops or public computers every day, and more than 54% reported using a mobile device to read or send business email on at least a daily basis. Remote access to calendars, contacts, firm accounts and even client files appears to be commonplace via both the Internet and mobile devices.

CHICAGO, IL - April 27, 2011 - Total Attorneys, a Chicago-based provider of cloud-based law practice management and marketing solutions to small law firms and solo attorneys, announced today the appointment of David Corken to the position of Chief Operating Officer. In the newly created position, Corken will oversee the company's business-to-business and consumer-directed operations and customer service.

Corken joins Total Attorneys after more than six years as Vice President of Operations at Cars.com, where he successfully planned and oversaw account management, customer service, ad operations, quality assurance, training, and maximization of the post-sales customer experience. His background also includes management and consulting positions with Keane Consulting Group/Keane Worldzen and Deloitte & Touche.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Total Attorneys has been selected as a finalist for a 2011 Illinois Technology Association (ITA) CityLIGHTS award, in the Rising Star category.

Total Attorneys is a national leader in the use of technology to facilitate legal practice for small firm and solo attorneys. The company pioneered national, results-based Internet marketing for consumer attorneys and takes advantage of technology to deliver remote administrative services far beyond the typical attorney answering service. This spring, Total Attorneys will take technological solutions for attorneys to a whole new level with a web-based law practice management platform that integrates all basic law office functions and adds the ability to collaborate with clients, staff and contractors online and to access complete case files from any secure Internet connection. The company’s existing marketing and administrative services will be integrated into the platform, streamlining the business of running a law office to a degree that has never been possible before.

CHICAGO, IL - January 19, 2010 - Chicago-based Total Attorneys announced today that BIA Digital Partners II LP (BIA) has made a growth capital investment in the Company, supporting Total Attorneys’ core mission of advancing the innovative use of technology in the legal profession.

Founded in 2002, Total Attorneys is recognized as an industry leading technology-enabled services provider, helping small law firms and solo practitioners efficiently grow and manage their practices. Through powerful technologies and a deep service platform, Total Attorneys has created a suite of integrated marketing and work-flow management tools for smaller law firms. The Company boasts an impressive client list and has won numerous industry awards and accolades. BIA is a private investment firm based in Chantilly, Virginia focusing on mid-to-later stage companies. With this new financing, Total Attorneys is in a stronger position than ever to lead the industry in providing technology services and solutions to legal professionals.

Top Providers Create Alliance To Offer Guidance To Legal Profession; Issue Response to ABA Commission

CHICAGO, IL - December 16, 2010 - Recognized leaders in legal cloud computing announced today the formation of the Legal Cloud ComputingAssociation (LCCA), an organization whose purpose is to facilitate the rapid adoption of cloud computing technology within the legal profession, consistentwith the highest standards of professionalism and ethical compliance.

Last week, Washington became the eleventh state to close its ethics investigation into the Total Attorneys online advertising model without making any finding of wrongdoing.  The complaints against thirteen Washington attorneys were part of a national campaign by one Connecticut lawyer to attack Total Attorneys’ Internet marketing services to lawyers.  The complaints, filed in April 2009, alleged that Total Attorneys President Kevin Chern and more than 500 attorneys across the country had violated the various states’ Rules of Professional Conduct simply by participating in the Total Attorneys advertising platform.

Last spring, when Total Attorneys CEO Ed Scanlan met with Purse of Hope founder Kristen Hendricks to discuss partnering to create Total Impact House, a home for teenage sex-trade victims in Africa, the two agreed that there had to be more involved than writing a check.  Total Attorneys’ leadership and employees embraced that concept, and began creating a unique, relational program that keeps Chicago volunteers personally involved with the residents of the house in Gulu.  Recently, Scanlan took that personal involvement to a new level:  he and his wife Ashley have just returned from a visit to Total Impact House and Purse of Hope’s drop-in center in Bwaise.

Nearly a year after a Connecticut attorney filed ethics complaints against more than 500 lawyers participating in the Total Attorneys group advertising platform, a Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee panel has declared that Connecticut attorneys using the service did not pay for recommendations in violation of Rule 7.2 of the Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct and did not otherwise violate the Rules.

In an unprecedented procedural move, a three-person panel of the Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee today dismissed complaints against five Connecticut attorneys accused of violating the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct by subscribing to Total Attorneys’ group lawyer Internet-based advertising program.  The Connecticut action was part of a campaign by a single Connecticut attorney, who filed complaints last spring against more than five hundred lawyers  in 47 states.  The complaints were dismissed after the close of Chief Disciplinary Counsel’s evidence, before the Respondents offered a defense to the charges.

UPDATED We recently released a press release stating that the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) had advised Total Attorneys’ President Kevin Chern that “it had found no wrongdoing” in its investigation into the allegations raised in a complaint filed by a Connecticut attorney.  We would like to clarify and correct that statement.  Rather than state that the ARDC had “found no wrongdoing” we should have stated that it closed its investigation “with no finding of wrongdoing". Although the ARDC advised that it had decided to close its investigation with no action against Mr. Chern, it did not make any affirmative findings.