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ASP Symposium. The March 2001 issue of ABA Law Practice Management has several articles on ASPs, including:

The ASP Question: CHOOSING WHAT TO USE, by Sheri Jacobs

A sidebar in Mark Golden's article in the same issue quotes G. Burgess Allison: "The stability of your ASP is crucial, as is the need for some kind of offline what-if-they-go-out-of-business backup policies. Any law firm that simply hands over its records-lock, stock and green eyeshades-to some dot-com whose business model is selling eyeballs is asking for trouble. It would be like handing over your accounting records to some accountant you shouldn't trust (like Fred's Fly-By-Night Recordkeeping and Bail Bonds). Accounting and recordkeeping have risks-regardless of whether you use an ASP or some human who comes to your office and hands you checks to sign. Both are suppliers who can go out of business, and who can get you in trouble if they do. "Like any technology, the ASP is dangerous mostly when people treat it like a panacea-like something that absolves them of the responsibility to do due diligence on their selection. An ASP is not more likely to go out of business than an 'in-person' service. It's just that it's new and people tend to say, 'Oh, I didn't think about that.'"

ASPs for Law Firms Just Hold on a Minute! -- Ross Kodner column archived at Microlaw.com site.

ASPs: Is It Time Yet? -- Slide show from New York Legal Tech 2001 presentation by Ross Kodner, MicroLaw and David Hambourger, Winston & Strawn on the current state of Application Service Providers for the legal market.

ASPs Why Lawyers Should Beware Their Bite -- This article and the next examine negative features of ASPs.

ASP -- Awfully Smooth Promotions