February 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 content, legal blogs, news and case law. Take a look at what's next:

Legal Blogs

• Defense of Marriage Act Dropped by Obama: FindLaw's Law and Daily Life reports on the announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder that the administration will no longer defend the DOMA in court proceedings. Learn more about the consequences for pending cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act.

Every day the world becomes more of a global marketplace, and FindLaw's global team is following suit by constantly expanding.

The global team has seen a number of recent expansions to its presence in the United Kingdom, Canada and Spain.

Here are some new updates from around the world:

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. This week, it is clear that law effects much in our daily lives, even what we eat. Take a look at what's next:

Legal Blogs

• McDonalds Sued: Glass in McChicken Worth $600K?: FindLaw's Injured looks at the latest twist on the McDonalds hot food lawsuit. This time, the fast food giant isn't being sued for the temperate of its food products, but for the shard of glass the plaintiff says was unexpectedly included in her McChicken sandwich.

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 Web Designer Kathryn Heinz. Get to know Kathryn by reading about her experiences at FindLaw below.

What is your current title?

Web Designer

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

I joined FindLaw in July of 2006. Earlier that spring, I attended a job fair at the Minneapolis Convention Center that was aimed at college students and recent graduates; FindLaw had a booth at this fair. Having never heard of Thomson Reuters, which was Thomson West at the time, I stopped by the booth to learn more about the company and to see if they had any design internships or job opportunities. A few weeks later I was asked to come to Eagan for an informational meeting which turned in to an interview. Later that week, I was offered a job. I was one of the first two associate designers that our company had, and there have been many more since.

FindLaw took part in LegalTech 2011 in New York last week.

FindLaw highlighted a key product, FirmSite Premium, with the tech-savvy legal crowd at the Hilton New York. Karl Florida, president of FindLaw, discussed the product and the use of new technologies in legal practice management.

"We're excited to be at LegalTech to demonstrate how FindLaw helps power the comprehensive suite of Thomson Reuters Business of Law solutions that help law firms manage their practices," Florida said from the conference.

Since 1995, FindLaw.com has been the most comprehensive website providing legal information resources to both consumers with legal needs and legal professionals. FindLaw.com's scope is both broad and deep, continually providing dependable information and a variety of tools to keep users connected and informed. FindLaw.com is now pleased to announce a new Facebook page designed specifically for consumers - take a look, add your thoughts, ask questions and share interesting and entertaining legal news, FAQs, and articles.

So what does FindLaw.com's Facebook face look like? FindLaw.com on Facebook is an entertaining and accessible way for people to interact with our consumer legal information, services and content on a whole new level. Whether you want to learn about an upcoming legal issue, research an interesting topic, find an attorney or are just curious about the law, FindLaw.com on Facebook provides an invaluable interactive resource for any Facebook user.

Almost every company has one, but few people understand exactly what they do -- the technology team. While it is true that all functional areas of FindLaw are crucial to our business, it would be nearly impossible for FindLaw to accomplish our goals and deliver solutions to our customers without our own technology team.

As an important part of the FindLaw team, the technology team is responsible for creating and maintaining both FindLaw's internal and customer facing systems, including customers' performance reports, and other essential parts of the FindLaw suite of products.

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:

Core Content:

• Alternative Sentences: FindLaw's Learn About the Law explores the punishments that can be handed down for criminal convictions other than prison sentences. Some of the alternative sentencing that is available to convicted criminals can include suspended sentences, probation, an order to perform community service or to compensate a victim by making restitution.
  

For better or worse, "divorce" was 2010's most searched legal term on FindLaw.com, the most popular consumer legal website.

Since about half of all American marriages end in divorce, it should come as no surprise that "divorce," and its dependents "child support" and "child custody," got the nod for most searched legal terms during the past 12 months.