This is the Wills for Heroes Foundation. Using HotDocs software, the foundation partners with state bar associations to prepare free estate planning documents for first responders.
I don't mean for our focus on pro bono / legal aid uses of HotDocs to imply that it is not also widely used in a commercial settings. The legal aid uses tend to be easier to find, so I have more examples of them.
We briefly looked at some material from the e-lawyering task force of the ABA. The task force's co-chairs are Richard Granat and Marc Lauritsen. Granat has several businesses going, including his own practice. He also runs Directlaw.com, which offers a ready-made platform for those wanting to set up a virtual law office to do so. If you're interested, look around on the page. The blog usually has an evolving list of new virtual law offices that have recently opened up as well. As far as I know, the Directlaw platform uses Rapidocs, a competitor to HotDocs.
Stephanie Kimbro is a lawyer licensed in North Carolina who delivers legal services over the Web. She was honored last year at the ABA Tech Conference with the James I. Keane Memorial Award for delivery of legal services over the Internet. Kimbro Law's site also offers links to many other interesting pieces of information about e-lawyering.
Lauritsen, the other co-chair along with Granat is a founding member of Capstone Practice Systems. Capstone offers consulting and assistance to companies looking to implement document assembly and related systems. Capstone's partial list of clients is illustrative of the higher-dollar market for document assembly work. However, Lauritsen and others from Capstone are regulars at conferences where people working on projects such as the one I am working on discuss the latest in the use of technology in legal aid. Capstone is also on contract with LawLine Vermont and legal aid offices in other states to provide guidance with HotDocs and A2J projects.
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