December 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 new:

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• Internet Poker May be Legal as Feds Flip Flop: Are high-stakes online poker games illegal? Different courts seem to deal with the issue differently, but the Justice Department is showing its hand with an opinion that could change the game. FindLaw's Law and Daily Life explains how state laws are now coming into play in how the feds enforce internet gambling laws.

Happy holidays! 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 new:

FindLaw Blogs

• A Guide to Dealing With Gift Returns: Reports suggest it's been a very happy holiday-shopping season for small-business retailers. But forecasts also call for a rise in the rate of after-Christmas returns. How best to prepare for the possible onslaught? FindLaw's Free Enterprise has a gift for you: five tips on how retailers can prevent a post-holiday return nightmare.

Let's start with this simple premise: your social media activity should be fun. Yes it is a place to display your legal expertise, provide unique insight into legal issues in your practice area and interact with your followers but it is also a chance for you to have fun with your material. With that in mind, adding variety to your social media sites will not only give you a chance to write about other legal interests but inform your followers on topics they are likely interested in as well.

The new year is a perfect time to start beefing up your social media efforts and whether writing exclusively about your practice area was getting a little monotonous or you are in a need of more content to properly update your sites, varying your posts is the perfect remedy. Here's a look at how this can be done across blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

When you make a purchase in a traditional store, the cashier doesn't prattle about the legal terms and conditions that apply to your purchase. Instead, you swipe your credit card, and sign a contract -- the store's copy of the receipt -- stating that you will pay the agreed-upon amount.

Online shopping should be just as simple, but it's not.

Online shoppers agree to legally binding terms and conditions beyond the basic credit card agreement, and, according to a recent FindLaw.com survey, most shoppers don't carefully read what they're signing.

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 new:

FindLaw Blogs

• Only ½ of US Adults Married, and Dropping: Fewer Americans than ever are tying the knot, and married couples may soon be in the minority. But the proportion of unmarried couples living together is up, leading to possible questions about your legal rights in a live-in situation. FindLaw's Law and Daily Life suggests why a cohabitation agreement may help clarify the terms of your live-in arrangement, and prevent legal disputes later on.

If continuously updated legal headlines from around the world are what you are looking for, you're in luck. We're excited to introduce FindLaw Legal Pulse, a dynamic new way to get your legal news.

Legal Pulse covers a broad range of law-related content. It has news, photo feeds and analysis from sources like Reuters, the Associated Press, Getty Images, The New York Times and Washington Post.

The content covers a broad range of law-related topics -- everything from Supreme Court decisions to legislative updates, everyday legal issues and even sports and celebrity news. You can trust that Legal Pulse has the most relevant legal news because it's from FindLaw, the Internet's leading legal information website.

In just about every state, city and town in America, there are crazy, weird and downright goofy laws on the books. These local ordinances are still legally valid.

But hardly anyone pays attention to, much less enforces, them.

Here at FindLaw.com, where more than 4.5 million people a month come for legal information, we have amassed a list of America’s wackiest laws. Here are a few:

Looking for legal information? Look no further than FindLaw's always growing Learn About The Law (LATL) section. LATL aims to provide practical legal information to consumers facing any variety of legal situations. In addition to general legal information, LATL also has comprehensive sections on niche areas of law such as education, internet law and lemon laws.

LATL concentrates on the areas where most people's lives come into contact with the law - family concerns, employment matters, criminal and traffic violations, real estate issues, small business concerns, estate planning and bankruptcy.

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 new:

FindLaw Blogs

• Rape Victim Must Pay Alimony to Her Attacker: A spousal support ruling in California is creating controversy, after a judge ordered a woman to pay alimony to her ex-husband -- who's in prison for sexually assaulting her. It may seem unjust, but the judge insists he's just following the law. FindLaw's Law and Daily Life explains this nuance in family law, and the role of judicial discretion.

Unfortunately, getting a potential client to visit your website is only the first step in converting them to becoming an actual client. This issue begs the obvious question, are you investing as much in converting online visitors as you are in attracting them?

Even if you answered yes to that question, every online legal marketing campaign can benefit from FindLaw’s latest product: WebChat Connect. WebChat Connect is a 24/7 online staffed chat service that allows you to connect to online visitors in a much more meaningful way.

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 new:

FindLaw Blogs

• FTC, Facebook Reach Privacy Settlement: An agreement between the feds and Facebook will have wide-ranging effects on Internet privacy. Facebook was accused of deceiving users when it promised, and failed, to keep users' personal information private — so government lawyers stepped in. FindLaw's Decided shares details of the settlement, and why Facebook's 800 million users should "like" its terms.

Live chat got a bad rap in the early days of dial-up Internet, but the medium is finally finding friends as businesses expand live online chat functions to help meet their customers' needs. Companies ranging from insurers to retailers have realized that online staffed chat services provide customers who don't want to navigate an automated phone system with an additional outlet for communication.

Don't believe the myths that nobody uses live chat services, or that live chat won't affect a business' bottom line. If you've been hesitant to test online staffed chat services on your favorite websites - or add it to your own website - FindLaw is here to help you separate fact from live chat fiction.