September 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:

• Apple Crime in NYC Spikes 40 Percent: The New York Police Department revealed a surprising statistic this week: About one in seven crimes in the Big Apple now involves an Apple product getting stolen. So far in 2012, more than 11,000 iCrimes have been reported, a 40% spike over 2011. How can you protect yourself and your digital devices? FindLaw’s Blotter offers some crime-fighting tips.

Healthcare law was a hot topic this year, thanks to the Affordable Care Act challenge in the Supreme Court. While the healthcare case raised a number of questions regarding how the law should be applied to medical needs on a broader scale, there are many ways that the legal system can affect patients individually.

FindLaw has highlighted just a few of the legal issues that patients should be aware of:

Small law firms use the many legal professional resources FindLaw has to offer every day. We hear praise and tips from many of these attorneys on our Facebook and Twitter accounts all the time. Now FindLaw has been spotlighted by another great community with the 2012 New York Law Journal Reader Rankings.

FindLaw was recently recognized by New York Law Journal as one of the best legal research tools for small law firms. Based on a survey by Journal readers in which over 6,800 voters participated, FindLaw made it to the podium based on a variety of features on our website, including: legal research, technology products, litigation support, recruitment and legal education.

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:

• Is Your Social Media Policy Valid?: Many companies are trying to control what employees can and can't say on Facebook and Twitter. But now, for the first time, the National Labor Relations Board has invalidated one company's social-media policy. FindLaw's Free Enterprise explains why the policy went too far, and what it could mean for your business.

According to an analysis of FindLaw call data, 18 percent of client calls occur outside of business hours. Seventy percent of callers never leave a message when calls are answered by a voicemail service. (Alex Drumheller, National Account Executive at AnswerNet, 2010.)

So how can you make yourself available to current and prospective clients whenever they need you, while still finding time to live your life?

Enter Voice Connect, a new product within the Conversion Solutions portfolio.

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 Account Copywriter Alicia Copeland. Get to know Alicia by reading about her experiences at FindLaw below.

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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, blogs, news and case law. Take a look at what's new:

FindLaw Consumer Blogs:

• 3 Tips to Prevent Parental Child Abductions: A California man in a heated custody battle allegedly kidnapped his kids and sailed away in a stolen boat before authorities intercepted them. How can you prevent these types of abductions, which are more common than you may think? FindLaw's Law and Daily Life offers three suggestions that may help.

Turning a prospect into a client is one of the main goals of any legal marketing campaign. When it comes to converting online visitors to your website, building an engaging experience that creates an instant connection with the visitor is essential.

Visitors come to legal websites for various reasons and whether they need a lawyer now or you need them to remember your name for the future, evaluating whether your website turns your passive visitors into clients is necessary. How to make and capitalize on these connections is the topic of FindLaw’s latest webcast.

Figuring out what to do when a legal issue arises is not easy. "Can I figure out this problem on my own? Should I hire an attorney?" These are some of the questions that come to mind when faced with possibly going to court. That's why FindLaw's free Legal Information Guides are such a great resource.

Our new Legal Guides run the gamut of common, everyday legal problems facing many Americans. From getting a green card, to dealing with a landlord, FindLaw now has 24 FindLaw Legal Guides available for download.

Each guide helps individuals with legal needs get up to speed on an important area of the law and decide if they need an attorney.

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:

• Ripping Your Ex on Facebook Can Cost You in Divorce: You may no longer “like” your soon-to-be ex-spouse, but you’ll want to refrain from saying so on social media. As FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life explains, spiteful status updates, tweets, and comments can be used against you in court, and can even lead to a lawsuit.

The new school year is upon us. In addition to shopping for the latest in fall fashion and new books, parents should also be informing themselves and their children on the importance of staying safe at school.

According to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, about 30% of middle and high school students say they have been bullied on some level. Both physical and cyber bullying at school are issues that have made headlines over the past year, but the reality is that there are many other dangers in addition to bullying that your child can face at school every day.

There's a reason why people like online shopping, pizza delivery, and dry-cleaning pick-up services. Busy people value convenience.

The same theory applies to information. A recent FindLaw survey found that 44.2 percent of FindLaw users like their legal news and information delivered via email.