As a complementary effort to our report on the use of the mobile compatible
websites by large law firms, the Law Firm Mobile (LFM) blog is pleased to announce the completion of its research on...
Not exact matches
A completely unscientific survey of «quite a few»
firm websites tells me that only a small minority of
law firms make use of this branding opportunity — and those that do have,
by and
large, really weak favicons.
The article
by Edward Hastings and Robert Buday of The Bloom Group reports on their recent study, The Effectiveness of Professional Services
Websites, in which they evaluated the sites of 80
large professional services
firms, including 20
law firms.
As ranked
by The American Lawyer's Global 100, the combined global legal practice is among the top 20
by headcount, as well as one of the 15
largest US - based legal practices, per the National
Law Journal's NLJ 250, according to a press release at the
firm's
website.
There are also a
large number of
websites on the Internet which look informational, but in fact are owned
by law firms.
According to most
law firms»
websites, even some of the
largest and most challenging to operate, their offices contain lawyers and nobody else — all the day - to - day operations that sustain the
firm, from accounting to marketing to IT to knowledge management, apparently happen independently, as if
by magic.
Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the
large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that
law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of
law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among
law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that
law societies are too comfortably protected
by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the
law society
website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of
law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.