Law in the Internet Society

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3) Lawyers cannot share their fees.

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>		Lawyers cannot share fees with non-lawyers, and fee-sharing with other lawyers is restricted. The rules preserve lawyers’ monopoly on legal services, and they also prevent collusive arrangements that would harm clients. For the purposes of web-based collaboration, however, these rules greatly constrain our ability to provide collaborating lawyers with direct economic incentives, stymieing one of the primary motivations for developing new models of practice.
 

III. Conclusion

If lawyers haven’t adopted the Web, we should understand why they haven’t because the Web is the only currently foreseeable cure to one of society’s most insidious disorders: unequal access to justice. The claim that lawyers are generally slow at adopting technology is suspect, and, in any case, unsatisfactory handwaving. Precisely understanding what prevents lawyers from collaborating through the Web is critical to elevating the practice of law as a whole.


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