January 2011 Archives

We continue our Friday round-up of what is newest, best and brightest at FindLaw.com. Below, you will find this week’s offerings from various areas of FindLaw’s unique content, including: core legal content, blogs, news and case law. Take a look at what’s next:

Legal Blogs

• Elena Kagan Jury Duty: They’re Just Like Us: If the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court can take time away from work to fulfill her civic responsibilities and show up for jury duty, so can all of us.

Have you invested time, energy and money into building your firm’s online marketing strategy? If you have, you may have seen the results as your practice grows. However, now may be the right time to take that marketing strategy up to the next level, and the upcoming free FindLaw webcast can help you do just that.

On January 27, FindLaw will present our latest webcast, “Beyond the Basics: Best Practices for Building Your Law Firm Online.” Attorney Lisa D. Stern and FindLaw Senior Client Development Consultant Jim Hayes will discuss how to step beyond the “best practices” of online legal marketing and get to “next practices.”

We continue our Friday round-up of what is newest, best and brightest at FindLaw.com. Below, you will find this week's offerings from various areas of FindLaw's unique content, including: core legal content blogs, news and case law. Take a look at what's next:

Legal Blogs

• Gay Divorce Ruling Upheld for Texas Lesbians: The divorce of a same-sex couple in Austin, Texas has been upheld by a three-judge panel of the Texas Court of Appeals. FindLaw's Law and Daily Life looks at the ruling that the intervention into the divorce by state Attorney General Greg Abbot came too late.

FindLaw.com is the site that legal consumers and professionals come to for accessible and useful legal information. In addition to the kind of newsworthy information found on FindLaw's blogs and commentary, and the guidance visitors can get from the Learn About the Law articles, the Answers community and the lawyer directory; FindLaw offers even more.

In a new release, FindLaw presents helpful information that anyone can use on starting a small business. In a difficult economy, many people who are unable to find work in more traditional ways are stepping out on their own and turning something they love into a small business. Taking those first steps toward starting a small business can be daunting, but FindLaw saw a way to provide some help. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, 600,000 new businesses are launched every year in the United States. If you are one of those who would like to turn their passion into a thriving business, there are several steps FindLaw recommends should be taken first.

As 2011 gets underway, FindLaw.com continues to reach more attorneys on a daily basis. Recently, we had a chance to talk with Bill Potthoff, FindLaw Sr. Client Development Consultant in St. Louis, Missouri, who saw a dramatic increase in his clients' receptiveness to online marketing in 2010.

"Not a day goes by that I don't hear 'I am done with the yellow pages' from an attorney," says Bill. Moreover, in a recent article, Michael S. Greco, President of the American Bar Association, states that approximately 80% of U.S. lawyers are either a solo practitioner, or work in small firms. Since these clients are our target demographic, this bodes well for FindLaw.

We continue our Friday round-up of what is newest, best and brightest at FindLaw.com. Below, you will find this week's offerings from various areas of FindLaw's unique content, including: core legal content, blogs, news and case law. Take a look at what's next:

Legal Blogs

• Jared Loughner Silently Invokes Miranda Rights: FindLaw's Blotter discusses one of the many angles of the criminal case of Jared Loughner, the man accused of the Tucson shooting that took the lives of six and left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life. Loughner's silence is his right under the famous Miranda ruling of the U.S. Supreme court. Blotter addresses the well known but sometimes misunderstood Miranda Rights.

Welcome to another post from our "Meet the FindLaw Team" series. "Meet the FindLaw Team" provides insight into the day-to-day lives of our colleagues. Today we feature FindLaw Senior Project Manager Jamie Wynn-Bell. Get to know Jamie by reading about her experiences at FindLaw below.

What is your current title?

Senior Project Manager

When did you join the FindLaw team / how did you get here?

I joined the FindLaw team in December of 2008 after working at West, a Thomson Reuters business for 3 years previously. My experience at West included working with Westlaw.com on codes content.

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We continue our Friday round-up of what is newest, best and brightest at FindLaw.com. Below, you will find this week's offerings from various areas of FindLaw's unique content, including: core legal content, Writ legal commentary, blogs, news and case law. Take a look at what's next:

Legal Commentary:

• The "I (Heart) Boobies!" Bracelets Controversy Goes to Court: Why the Students Are Right and the Schools Are Wrong: Writ's Senior Editor Julie Hilden explores the timely and unusual litigation over the breast cancer support bracelets students are wearing to school. Schools have prohibited them, but Hilden argues this should be seen as a violation of the students' First Amendment Rights, even if there are Supreme Court cases that may support the schools' actions.

FindLaw is the web's most popular legal website, with more than 4 million monthly visitors. We constantly bring fresh, relevant content to both consumers and legal professionals alike. FindLaw visitors are looking for up to date legal information, news, blogs, commentary, lawyers, answers, forms and help with all their legal needs and questions. By continuously updating and developing new content, we aim always to deliver the most relevant information to anyone who comes looking for it on FindLaw.com.

The last quarter of 2010 has been no exception. In addition to the continuing posts from FindLaw's current 20+ blogs, we have expanded our network of hyper-local bogs focused on specific legal topics in more than 12 metro areas. New core legal content also has been added to the Learn About the Law section of the FindLaw site, providing visitors with accurate and accessible legal information they can use every day. Some of the best new additions include: