Editor’s note: This article was first published in May 2011, during the economic crisis in Spain. The description of Metricson, as profitable from day one with clients in the United States and South America and new clients every day, reflects that moment and is unsourced.
With the rise of the internet, the laws of cyberspace have changed or are unknown to many people. The crisis has hit law graduates hard, which makes no sense, since demand for legal services and advice on certain online practices has grown. Lawyers now need to retrain for this new era and get up to speed on the little-known new laws covering abuses committed on the internet.
As a business idea, Metricson has managed to tap this untouched market for internet and technology legal advice. Its business has been profitable from day one, as it won international clients, and best of all, its advice is basically delivered online.
Data protection, corporate law, trademarks, copyright, fraudulent use of domain names, damage to an individual’s good name, and so on.
Someone has insulted you on a specialist forum: would you know what to do? Someone is dragging your company’s name through the mud with slander: where do you start? Someone has bought a domain with your company’s name and is tarnishing your reputation so that you’ll feel forced to buy it from them at an inflated price: are you sure there’s nothing you can do to stop it?
All this advice and much more is what this online law firm offers, and it must be said that they never stop working and taking on new clients every day: as the number of internet users and online businesses keeps growing, the outlook for online legal advice is excellent.
Its other services include patent and trademark applications, lawsuits and claims. This Barcelona-based firm already works for clients in the United States and South America, and even advises companies that decide to open businesses elsewhere in the world.
If you’re a lawyer and can’t find a job, be in no doubt: there are millions of people on the internet looking for exactly this kind of service.
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