Settling for less than the highest quality product or service available. The Internet frequently makes this attractive for consumers. For example, the Washington Post 's Legi-Slate congressional information service was widely respected for its high quality, but it recently went out of business. Giving clients the option to purchase specific services, without necessarily requiring them to enter into a full attorney client relationship. The Internet makes unbundling more attractive as a business model.
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The Desktop Lawyer software is only one of many technology-driven challenges that the legal profession will face over the next decade. In my view, other new business models, some of which are hinted at in the definitions above, will probably be even more serious challenges in the long run. It will not be easy for lawyers to work out sensible strategies for dealing with the coming changes. The first step toward understanding the issues is to keep up with the new terminology. A practicing lawyer for 20 years, Mr. Lawson has written numerous magazine articles about the practical aspects of lawyer use of the Internet as well as the ABA Law Practice Management Section's popular book, The Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyers .