It seems a lot of car buffs out there like the look of their cars "floating" down the highway atop a pillow of purple light. Perhaps you've seen cars modified with these neon (or LED) "underglow" lights before, often with other aftermarket adornments such as ornate wheel rims or tinted windows.

Depending on your point of view, they are either super-cool or super-distracting. Either way, this is one of our most consistently popular pieces of content on FindLaw.com. As one of our more popular Law & Daily Life blog posts asked nearly three years ago, "Are neon or 'underglow' car lights legal?" 

Well, it depends.

Sitting in the San Francisco Bay Area's famously gridlocked traffic during the morning commute can be downright maddening. I should know, since I travel 40 miles each way from my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. But while traversing a mountain pass by bicycle is out of the question (unless I'm mountain biking for fun), pedaling to work is much more feasible for folks who already live in Silicon Valley.

Regardless, Bay Area commuters spend roughly 40 million hours idling in traffic each year, according to an article on TransportationNation.org. But nearly 40 percent of Bay Area commuters work less than five miles from where they live, according to the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC).

And we have fabulous weather out here in California. So some of us here at FindLaw are going to do something about it this week.

FindLaw has tons of free legal information for lawyers and lay people, everyone knows that. We also have tons of other great resources on our website. Did you know that we have 4 national blogs devoted entirely to legal professionals? Each is focused on different aspects of the law and legal life. They inform, entertain and update legal professionals on the latest happenings in law.

If you are a young attorney or law student then you will love our Greedy Associates blog. Filled with updates about life in BigLaw and tips for surviving your first years out of law school, Greedy Associates is updated throughout the work week for your reading pleasure. In House is a blog written for corporate counsel (or any attorney thinking of making the switch).

Remember when "food truck" was just a nicer way of saying "roach coach?" No disrespect to roaches; but mobile eateries typically were limited to unpretentious tacos, plastic-wrapped tuna sandwiches and -- if you happen to be feasting at a state fair -- deep-fried Twinkies or anything sold on a stick.

Oh how times have changed.

Nowadays, on any given weekday around lunch time, you'll find food trucks parked near FindLaw's Sunnyvale office dishing up such haute cuisine as grass-fed beef burgers with maple syrup-glazed bacon and grilled shrimp sandwiches with parsley and garlic sauce. You'll even find tacos, some traditional, some with an Asian twist.

And we're just getting warmed up.

Medical marijuana and recreational marijuana have been big legal issues for years now. Each side of the legalization debate chimes in with the pros and cons of the plant.

So whether you celebrate the unofficial marijuana holiday on 4/20 or not, FindLaw has a wealth of marijuana-related legal information for everyone.

Here at FindLaw we aim to provide reliable legal information on major legal issues as well as on those issues of interest to our readers. So if partaking in 4/20 interests you, you should be aware of some of the legal consequences you could face: 

Whenever you've got questions, we've got answers -- FindLaw Answers, that is.

When life gets legal, our community of legal professionals can help steer you in the right direction. Most questions involve things like obtaining child support or fighting a traffic ticket. But sometimes we get some very interesting fact patterns on our message boards. 

Here are the top five from the past year:

FindLaw.com has a serious tennis rivalry. Just as we have talented people working on FindLaw.com, there are some seriously skilled tennis players in our midst. 

So who is the Sunnyvale office's top dog?

Maybe Steve Noel, FindLaw's Vice President of Strategic Development and Audience, was just being modest when he was asked that very question recently. 

The tennis ace was reluctant to speak of his exploits. He instead talked up Core Consumer Content Editor Caleb Groos and Senior Content Specialist Javier Lavagnino:

"In general, I think the majority of the story should be focused on Caleb's tennis apparel and Javier's backhand."

What follows is bunch of glad handing by FindLaw's Top 4 tennis stars.

It's no secret that FindLaw does some very cool things. But did you know FindLaw.com's hometown of Sunnyvale, California was named America's Most Inventive City?

That's right, the same city that houses the brilliant minds that come together to produce FindLaw.com has a lot going for it. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, FindLaw.com is surrounded by established companies as well as many up and coming startups. 

It's a perfect combination for innovation.

One of the cooler things about working at FindLaw.com is the opportunity to use our skills to help others. As a Thomson Reuters company, employees at FindLaw are not only encouraged to engage in philanthropic endeavors, we are paid for it!

Instead of taking a day away from the office to devote to various individual endeavors we decided to try something never done before: an in-office charity day.

We chose SF Achievers, a local charity that provides African American males with academic and personal development in addition to college scholarships. One thing that this fantastic organization was lacking was an online presence that really represented all the great things the program is doing.

Enter FindLaw.com.

My friends outside of California can't believe I drive 40 miles (each way) from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the heart of Silicon Valley five days a week. That's 1,600 miles and about 48 hours each month. How do I do it?

For those of us who work in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's all part of the lifestyle.

It also helps that I like my coworkers (no, really). And that I occasionally carpool with fellow Santa Cruz resident and FindLaw senior writer Richard Link.

A long commute is a rite of passage for many of the more than 7 million residents in the greater Bay Area, a region crisscrossed with freeways, bridges, bike lanes, and commuter trains. And while it consists of nine counties and three major cities, the area functions like a singular metropolis.

The longest commute to the Sunnyvale office probably belongs to Kevin Ahlvin, our director of business marketing.