(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 05, 2009 ) Amelia Island, FL – Elawyering is a new trend that combines “intelligent” online tools with actual lawyers to help clients sort through legal issues – at a fraction of the cost of what seeing an attorney would cost. For example, in the bankruptcy field, an elawyering solution might offer an online tool to help people decide between a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The service would then assist with the drafting of the appropriate legal forms which could be reviewed and discussed by an attorney on the phone.

Internet attorney Chip Cooper, President of Digital Contracts offers his elawyering service called “MyLegalFirewall” to website owners to assist them with website legal compliance. “Most website owners are completely lost when they consider the question of which legal documents they really need for their site”, says Cooper. “I’ve developed an algorithm that’s built into our MyLegalFirewall service which assists website owners in determining which website documents they really need. Our wizard-based service then guides them through the process of drafting these documents and provides instructions of how to incorporate them into their website.” (MyLegalFirewall Legal Documents Drafting Service).

Cooper offers his MyLegalFirewall service at his DigiContracts.com website in three formats – a do-it-myself service, a do-it-for-me service, plus a hybrid of the two services. “With the do-it-myself option, the website owner uses our service with no assistance through an attorney-client relationship, and it’s by far the most cost-effective option. I do all of the drafting work with the do-it-for-me service, but the client gets two telephone conferences to ask all the questions they want. With the hybrid approach, the client drafts the documents, then submits them to me for review and a Q&A phone conference.”

Cooper’s twice-monthly newsletter, available for sign-up at Digicontracts.com, provides free updates on relevant U.S. laws and regulations affecting websites. Subscribers to the newsletter also get as an added bonus Cooper’s downloadable ebook Determine Which Legal Documents Your Website Really Needs.

Cooper believes that elawyering is next big thing in the legal profession. “The benefits to the client are obvious, and The American Bar Association has even recognized the value of elawyering by forming an elawyering task force”, Cooper says. “In the next three years or so, lawyers who don’t offer an elawyering solution will be behind the curve.”

For more information, email Chip Cooper at ccooper@digicontracts.com .

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Digital Contracts, Inc.
Chip Cooper
Tel: 770-664-8555
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