Continuing education for Lawyers on virtual law

Lawyers are among the most respected professions all over the globe aside from doctors of medicine, architects and engineers. They master their craft in legal battle against their colleagues in the profession with them prosecuting or depending cases of their clients. To make them very successful in their chosen profession lawyers, just like the other professions, have their so-called continuing education and they are just like students still hungry for more knowledge about law.

Atty. Geri Kahn of Benecia law office the other day attended an online gathering of almost 40 artists and lawyers using the 3D virtual world called Second Life. During the gathering, every participant is identified with their virtual persona also known as avatar they control in their respective computers. Gery Khan is the vice president of the Second Life Bar Association. This group is composed of legal scholars, lawyers, and all people having interest and fascination on laws and legal matters. Kahn is responsible in holding series of continuing education online about legal matters online. Continuing education is also like a career planning in which lawyers plan to improve their careers with the help of this continuing education program.

Last Tuesday’s seminar activity was concentrated in intellectual property online which is composed of five parts. It was learned that all these five part-series on intellectual property enforcement can be used as part of the mandatory continuing education, and this continuing education is practiced by millions of lawyers around the globe – and not only in the State Bar of California. Lawyer from Croatia, Atty. Tamiko Frankin, leads the seminar with her avatar identified herself as Juris Amat. However, the participants mostly came from California and they were lawyers and artists who got interested in virtual copyrights.

Lawyers believe that with so many legal crimes happening in the internet, the legal profession shall also update them how they would be able to prosecute people involve in cyber crimes such as hacking, spamming and all others – which they said a threat to many online businessmen doing their business as professionals as they did offline. It was learned that there were about 1.2 million of the users of Second Life who have logged in the last two months.

Kahn said the law seminar is free right now but they also plan to ask for nominal fee to help the continuity program of Second Life. The online education program is one good step to reach out to more lawyers as well as strengthened their programs on the problems that arises in the virtual world, with many people complaining they are victimized by unscrupulous individuals.