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The Raleigh, North Carolina based law firm of Leone Noble & Seate, LLP , whose practice is focused on personal injury, has launched an "On-Line Unbundled Legal Service" offering legal forms bundled with legal advice.

The firm made its decision to expand its services after repeated requests from existing clients for legal help outside of their main practice areas of personal injury, workers’ compensation and bankruptcy. Partner Beth Leone Noble says, “We felt the time was right to expand our business, but knew that we needed to do so with deference to our shaky economy. It was important for us to be able to offer affordable and convenient services to our clients because that is what they really need right now”. The firm based its pricing on a competitive review of other legal form services available online. “We are very competitive with other online form services,” says Leone Noble, “but with our services, you get an actual N.C. licensed attorney creating and reviewing your legal product”. Leone Noble also makes sure to point out that the forms only apply to residents of North Carolina.

Also available is flat rate legal advice by email. If you have a simple issue that you just need to get an attorney’s advice on, you can submit your issue through the secure server and an attorney will provide you with the advice and direction you need.

Beth Noble founded LN&S with Jennifer Slate in December, 2006, with the mission of helping defend people's rights. Ms. Noble says that she wanted to become a trial lawyer since she was 15 years old, when she started working for a personal injury firm doing filing and running errands.

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Stephanie Kimbro, a solo practitioner who operates Kimbrolaw.com, a virtual law firm in North Carolina, has been selected as this year's winner of the James Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering. This award is given annually by the eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, a group which was founded by Jim Keane an active and long-standing member of the ABA/LPM section who died tragically from lung cancer several years ago. I am the present Co-Chair with Marc Lauritsen.

Ms. Kimbro's law firm is a completely virtual law firm that serves individuals and small business over the Web. Our group concluded that Kimbrolaw.com  met the criteria for the Award perfectly as it demonstrates an innovative online model for delivering services to the broad middle class. Clients access their own individual web space where they can consult with their attorney, have their documents reviewed, and conduct other legal tasks -- all online.

The Award was given to Ms. Kimbro at the American Bar Association's TECHSHOW on April 2, 2009, immediately before the key note speech by Richard Susskind, who discussed his new book: The End of Lawyers: The Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services.

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Bernardo Granwehr has launched Iowa's first virtual law firm focusing on family law matters and wills at IowaLawyerOnLine. The law firm offers legal forms bundled with legal advice for fixed price. For example, Iowa Divorce Forms with Minor Children sells for $299.00 and a Will sells for $100.00. The divorce services are designed for pro se itigants. The web site is powered by our DirectLaw hosted service which includes the Rapidocs web-enabled document automation capability. Cllients complete on-line questionnaires which generate completed forms and documents ready for attorney review. The use of a web-enabled document automation capability keeps the cost of document  creation to a minimum enabling the attorney to spend time giving legal advice and additional custom-drafting at still make a reasonable fee for the time expended.

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