Practice Management

Redux: American trial lawyer in Paris?

By Dan Hull

Law is no longer local--and neither is the apparatus for doing it.

Face-to-face beats all other modes of getting points across. And you can't pick a jury over the phone in the SDNY from Cardiff, Brussels or Prague. But in most U.S. courts you can file documents electronically from anywhere. Three issues: (1) staying organized, (2) managing jet-lag, and (3) the quality of the tech infrastructure once you get there--real challenges for clients and lawyers who know that travel is rarely that smooth, pretty or glamorous. For fun, see Ile St Louis: U.S. litigation conducted from Left Bank.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).