What's Coming Next

Well, I took a week off from the blog, but not a week off from the project. My last post was based on my preliminary research into VLO service providers. Since then, I have signed up for an initial demo version of DirectLaw. I haven't delved very deeply into that system, but I did play with the document-generation aspect of it for about an hour. The interactive questionnaires are robust, but some of the questions I ran into were more than the average consumer could answer. More than likely, attorney guidance would be necessary for the more technical or complex documents. That's not an indictment of the software. On the contrary, I think direct attorney involvement is prudent for many of the documents generated by DirectLaw's software. More on that later. Last week I also had the privilege of attending the second session in Rachel Rodgers's class, Lifestyle Design with a VLO. We disucussed the financial side of starting a VLO, and I'll post my thoughts here tomorrow. Speaking of Rachel Rodgers, I did some stream-of-consciousness lifeplan work last week. I also took some time to talk about our lifeplan with my wife. It was enlightening and has resulted in some changes in our lifestyle, starting today. I'll give you more on that on Thursday, along with more of my business plan. I took some time last week to review the EULA of Total Attorneys' VLO Tech. I looked into DirectLaw's EULA as well, but was apparently on the wrong page, because what I found was not what I was looking for. Never fear, though; I will not be dissuaded. Come back Friday for a brief summary on what I found and some of the more important language in those EULAs. Other things that I'm working on include researching local and DIY web development, embedded logins for client portals, and a more involved research project about physical-address rules and how they affect VLOs. I'm hoping to line up an interview with Jack Newton of Clio sometime soon as well. Lots of good stuff in the works; stay tuned!