Internet regulation — I: Legal ethics and the internet: A US perspective

✍ Scribed by James M. McCauley

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 757 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(97)89747-6

✦ Synopsis

An online research firm, Jupiter Communications, projects that by the year 2000, more than 36 million households in the US will be connected to the Internet, up from 9.6 million in 1995.'

As of November 1994, only five law firms in the US had home pages on the World Wide Web. Only seven months later, the number jumped to approximately 500.2 Law firms in the United States have established Web sites or home pages on the Internet as a tool to perform a number of tasks: marketing, keeping clients informed, newsletters, legal research, networking and recruiting.

Authorities now believe that many thousands of lawyers communicate regularly on the Internet.3