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Sorry Airlines! Let's Take Legal Meetings Online
I can see it now: U.S. airlines continue to struggle because some of their most frequent fliers — attorneys — are turning in their wings. No longer do we need to fly nearly as often to client meetings or to interview key witnesses on our most pressing cases. Why? We now have e-meetings, specifically e-meetings from Tempe, AZ-based VIACK Corporation. Sad for the airlines; good for us!
The VIA3 E-meeting Service, originally modeled after the needs and wants of legal professionals, permits users to work together in real-time over the Internet using live audio and video capabilities, instant messaging and text chat, and the ability to jointly create, review, share and edit Microsoft Word and PowerPoint presentations. Even better, it's all built with our security requirements in mind, so attorney-client privilege is constantly maintained – unlike with e-mail or faxing. It's an awesome feature! How's that for knowing their market? Impressive. But more on security later….
We all know the pains of planning and holding off-site meetings, especially those that include clients, lawyers, paralegals, and others from across the city, the country or even the world. Coordinating a time and location can cost a bundle, especially when combined with the travel costs associated with getting and staying there, and the wasted time that could have been spent billing! Ultimately, it's the client that pays, you say, so why worry? We're all learning more and more each day why. Times have changed. Many clients just don't have the big budgets anymore. If we want to keep our clients and get some new ones, paying close attention to their budgets is one good way to do it! They don't have time to be out of their offices for days meeting with legal counsel or collaborating on complicated documents (that process can take weeks writing, faxing or e-mailing back and forth, coordinating edits, resending, and on and on). And they don't want to be paying for you to be traveling around either, if it's not absolutely necessary, when you could be back at your office using their money more efficiently.
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