Heading to the law office for legal advice could become a thing of the past. Law students have taken classes online for years, but practicing law online once they become attorneys is gaining traction. A pioneer in online lawyering will offer one of the nation's first free digital lawyering programs for University of Dayton law students this fall. Stephanie Kimbro, who has won the American Bar Association's Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering and wrote Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online, will conduct two, six-week sessions starting Sept. 4 and Oct. 23. The first session will give students the tools to work with a variety of technologies used to manage an online law practice. In the second session, students will focus on social media practices and how they may be used to grow a client base and professional network. Both sessions require students to develop technology and social media policy and procedure manuals for their future practices.
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