Monday Beam, in world lawyer

You were asking about the value of an in-world lawyer. The issue isn't what they can do for you while within SL, the issue is how their SL experience makes them a more appropriate lawyer.

Although one of the things a lawyer can help with is negotiating a contract. It might be very useful to be able to do that within SL.

Speaking of lawyers ....

"Shannon Grei and Kevin Aldermann's Eros LLC have filed a complaint in US District Court in Northern California against Linden Reseach alleging "Linden Lab, with knowing and conscious intent to do so, profits in multiple ways and at multiple stages from the illegal conduct" and asks for an injunction to halt the activity. Eros LLC markets a line of sex animations for the virtual world of Second Life, and has built a successful business - but the accumulated frustrations with the weak enforcement of intellectual property rights on the part of Linden Lab seem to have reached the breaking point."

http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2009/09/strokerz-toyzeros-llc-takes-linden-lab-to-court.html
http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2009/09/eros-llcshannon-grei-vs-linden-research-the-class-action-complaint.html

Now if you wanted an SL lawyer, Stroker's lawyer would probably be a good choice.

Yes, I understand that. I guess you're missing my point. Never mind.

I am pretty certain that Mr. Monday was the lawyer who recently represented an associate of mine, and did quite a fine job.
I am 99% certain that all the credentials my associate could find seemed legitimate, and I believe he may specialize in contract law in RL...which as many have mentioned, still holds in SL because a RL contract is a RL contract, and whether we want to look as SL as world apart from the rest with its own rules, if you sign a real world contract with someone saying you won't do something within a virtual world, you can still be prosecuted in the real world because you have broken said agreement.

It really no different than if I signed a contract here in the states saying I would never randomly set villages on fire in China. (Please don't point out extradition and other flaws in this example) We will assume this contract itself would not hold in China...regardless when I get back from there and people find out I burned down 34 villages, I am still going to be in violation of the contract.

Asserted credentials that cannot be independently verfied are worthless. I don't know the professional guidelines for the legal profession in each of the 50 states in the U.S., but I would be surprised to find that any state allows a lawyer to practice law anonymously.