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Special Report - Law - September 13, 2012
Virtual law firms emerge as workplace preferences shift
Statewide firm contends efficiency of technology significantly cuts costs

By Jessica Valencia
Of the Journal of Business

Spokane attorney Patricia Johnson is a partner in Advocates Law Group PLLC, a virtual firm with about 15 employees statewide.
Spokane attorney Patricia Johnson is a partner in Advocates Law Group PLLC, a virtual firm with about 15 employees statewide.
—Staff photo by Jessica Valencia
Patricia Johnson is part of a law firm consisting of about 15 employees, but you wouldn't know that by stepping into her two-office suite on the 10th floor of downtown Spokane's Paulsen Building.

Johnson is a partner in what's known as a virtual law firm. Her colleagues in Advocates Law Group PLLC, which she has been a part of since August 2011, aren't down the hall or in the next suite, but instead are located all over Washington state.

George Tamblyn, Advocates' Me...


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