March 2012 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:

FindLaw Consumer Blogs

• Why Obamacare Will Be Decided on Constitutionality: After three days of historic arguments about the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Supreme Court is discussing the case behind closed doors. One issue is whether the Anti-Injunction Act of 1867 bars the Court from ruling on the case this year. FindLaw's Law and Daily Life examines that issue, and why observers say it probably won’t be a problem.

Why do divorce rates surge in the spring?

According to a FindLaw.com report analyzing divorce filings across the U.S. between 2008 and 2011, divorces spike in January, continue to rise through February, and peak in March.

Never underestimate the power of engagement. With that philosophy in mind, FindLaw has developed offerings to help transform passive site visitors into active clients. By incorporating chat functionality into your website, FindLaw Conversion Solutions instantly add a personal connection to the visitor's experience.

Here's how it works. Website visitors are greeted and offered an opportunity to engage in chat with a live operator. The result of this timely engagement is simple: immediate, high-value connections for your law firm. Depending on user response, FindLaw Conversion Solutions also helps with the initial user intake questions, saving customers time and energy. INSIGHT, a performance analytics dashboard, helps customers monitor the results of their Internet marketing efforts and make informed campaign decisions based on data.

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 Consumer Blogs

• ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws: State by State: The shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin has sparked a national debate about Florida’s “stand your ground” law. But Florida isn’t alone — many other states have similar statutes on the books. FindLaw’s Blotter highlights some similarities and differences among state self-defense laws.

Objections are as much a part of legal arguments as the argument itself. It is no wonder then that lawyers seem to have objections to things beyond the courtroom. When it comes to social media, concerns surrounding benefits, time commitment and unique content creation are common among lawyers and law firms concerned about moving into this space as part of their overall lawyer marketing approach.

Enter FindLaw. With a variety of social media solutions to fit any law firm, FindLaw can help attorneys effectively communicate on various social networks and see the positive results that come with it. Let's take this conversation to courtroom-style that lawyers would be familiar with and look at the top lawyer objections to social media and FindLaw's rebuttals.

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 Consumer Blogs

• Might Be Time to Rethink Unpaid Internships: Recent lawsuits over unpaid internships have led to changes at one major publishing company. Should other employers follow suit? FindLaw’s Free Enterprise explains how federal unpaid-internship guidelines may be a better place to start than the company’s newly revised internship mandates.

Why are television shows about lawyers so popular? Perhaps because viewers are looking for tips for their own court appearances.

According to a recent FindLaw.com survey, 37 percent of Americans have been to court. Of that number, 44 percent of surveyed men have had a brush with the bar, while only 31 percent of women have made an appearance before the bench.

FindLaw's Lawyer Marketing arm is consistently working to give our customers an edge. With a constantly evolving product lineup, the goal is simple: More clients delivered to your law firm.

FindLaw certainly doesn't rest on its laurels. We provide so many different ways for you to reach you marketing goals. In that spirit, FindLaw announces four new additions to its Lawyer Marketing offerings. Take a look at these new products:

Conversion Advantage: Building on all the benefits of WebChat Connect, Conversion Advantage takes your website's chat service one step further by offering an additional suite of features designed to help you manage and connect with key prospects. Talk about maximizing your live chat -- Conversion Advantage gives your firm the knowledge to make critical business decisions. Further, "hot transfer" empowers a chat operator to connect a key prospect directly to your firm via phone, based on specific practice area and keyword requirements, and within firm-designated business hours you set.

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 Consumer Blogs

• 3 Tips When You Sue for Online Defamation: What happens on social media doesn’t always stay on social media — especially if a comment is hurtful and false. FindLaw’s Injured offers three tips to consider if you’ve been hurt by an online comment and want to sue for defamation.

Millions of people turn to FindLaw.com, the leading resource for legal information on the Internet, each year. Many are looking for a lawyer or information about their legal rights following an accident or injury.

When you get hurt -- whether from a dog bite, car wreck, or defective product -- you're probably not thinking about your legal rights. But waiting too long after an injury to consider whether you have a valid claim could hurt your ability to bring a lawsuit against the person or company responsible for your injury.

One look at FindLaw.com and it is easy to see how much the website provides it's consumer and legal professional visitors every day. From thousands of articles of legal content, to the largest Attorney Directory, to metro-based blogs updated on a daily basis, to free practice management tips for legal professionals, FindLaw.com has something for everyone.

Here are the top 5 FindLaw.com fun facts you may or may not have known about the website:

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 Consumer Blogs

• Cigarette Warnings Violate 1st Amendment, Federal Judge Rules: In a victory for tobacco companies, a federal judge has ruled the FDA's new requirements for graphic cigarette warnings are a violation of free speech. FindLaw's Decided explains the judge's legal reasoning, and FindLaw's Courtside has posted the judge's ruling in its entirety.

Here at FindLaw, we work hard to develop useful legal learning tools like the Learn About the Law section and the FindLaw Answers community, but answers are pointless if we don't know what questions legal consumers are asking.

A recent FindLaw study examining U.S. consumer legal needs helps shed light on the most pressing issues that legal consumers are facing.