Friday, March 25, 2016

Over on The Insightful Immigration Blog, Cyrus Mehta asks whether Avvo will disrupt immigration law practice in the same way that Uber has disrupted the taxi system and Airbnb has shaken up the hotel industry.

Mehta describes Avvo as a website that offers "fixed-fee and limited scope legal services, including immigration services, through a network of attorneys." For example,

One of the immigration services Avvo offers is a “family based green card” for $2995 that involves preparing and filing the requisite forms, but no representation at an adjustment of status interview or to respond to a Request for Evidence. The consumer pays $2995 to Avvo directly, but may choose the attorney in the Avvo network that they want to work with. That attorney has 24 hours to directly contact the consumer/client, and do the work as they would any other client. When the work is completed, Avvo releases the funds to the attorney minus a $400 “marketing fee”.

You can check Avvo out for yourself here.

Mehta doesn't think Avvo is going to change the practice of immigration law. He believes immigration is too variable, too fact and client dependent to rely on a this one-size-fits-all system.

We'll see.

-KitJ

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/03/will-avvo-disrupt-immigration-law-practice-.html