Although the legal industry historically has been a very conservative and generally only taken up new technology very slowly, there is an increasing trend for legal services to be offered online. When the legal profession first emerged as a profession in England, part of the reason that lawyers became quite verbose was that they, like writers, were often paid on a per word basis which mean that the longer the piece of work they produced was, the more that they would be paid. In ancient legal documents, this in an interesting explanation for some of the very lengthy and often incomprehensible statements which were made in very early legal documents like the Magna Carta. Naturally, this was also a function of the way that language operated at the time. In the later part of the twentieth century there was a movement created within legal circles called the plain English language movement which promoted the idea that lawyers should try to simply the language that they use to the greatest extent possible and make the language of the law as accessible as possible to the ordinary people in the community. This movement had mixed success with gaining adoption within the profession as it appeared that legal professionals, naturally being people of high education and training with a large vocabulary like to use specialised terms and jargon which were incomprehensible to the rest of the population and allowed the profession to create a body of knowledge which could be understood only by those elites who were educated to understand it. Because technology which maker legal services more open and accessible to people in the community can tend to undermine the professional monopoly on legal knowledge which most lawyers wish to avoid as they have a great deal invested in an education which is supposed to guarantee the ability to access a profession offering good careers, salaries and high social status. Nevertheless, the revolution of the information age seems set to make on line legal services which are much more efficient, cheaper and therefore more accessible to the community no matter what the protestations of the legal profession might be. Like with all new technologies, there are problems which need to be worked through in order for the technology to become mainstream, but the use of the internet in business and social life is now virtually ubiquitous so the legal profession seems to set to catch up with the rest of society soon.

At present, some of the major sources of on line legal services are community based on line legal information pages and expert sites where you can enter into a question answer dialogue with a legal professional without having to go to their office, execute documents and then return them in hard copy or go through any of these other issues when obtaining a legal service. Our lawyers answer questions via email and provide some documentation services by scanning and emailing documents. On line interactions are recorded far more easily than the more traditional methods as well and often use less paper, which means that it is more environmentally friendly. If you require any form of on line legal service, please do not hesitate to contact us using any of the contact methods available on this site.