Justia clients' Web sites honored by the Internet Marketing Attorney Awards
Hi Friends,
The Internet Marketing Attorney's Micah Buchdahl has released the 2006-07 INTERNET MARKETING ATTORNEY AWARDS and 2006-07 Nifty 50.
We are happy that Web sites we have worked on with our law firm clients have received IMA honors.
The Internet Marketing Attorney Awards are given to law firm Web sites that are using best practices. More than just giving awards, the goal is to provide legal marketing professionals with ideas and examples of design, content usability interactivity and intangibles that they might want to use on their own Web sites. We ourselves studied the examples before we started our Web site building business. Hundreds of clients later... we are now studying the latest installment, and happily this year some of our clients' Web sites are included as award recipients and examples of best practices.
The Nifty 50 examines components on law firm web sites that go beyond the basics of bios, practices, offices and news. The Silverberg Zalantis LLP Website was shown for how they integrated their New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog into their Web site. Silverberg Zalantis represent municipal, corporate and individual clients in New York.
Stark & Stark, a multipractice law firm in New Jersey and New York won a Platinum Internet Marketing Association award for Small & Mid-Size firms. The firm was recognized for end-user effectiveness, search engine optimization and the creative integration of numerous blog feeds into the site. The Stark & Stark site incorporates over 100 different blog feeds into their site for immediate updating of new posts. We worked with Stark & Stark's Director of Business Development Richard DeLuca on the Web site and with LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe on the Web site blog integration. And don't forget to subscribe and listen to their New Jersey Legal Update Podcasts.
And our first client and good friend David Swanner (whose site went live last year) won a Silver Internet Marketing Association award. He was the sole solo to win an award. We worked on the site with David and the late Kerry Randall (whose team carries on as AVALANCHE: The Lawyer Marketing Group), who developed the David v. Goliath theme, and Kevin and LexBlog on integrating the South Carolina Trial Law Blog with his Web site. David’s site was also recently named one of the best small law firm Web sites in South Carolina by Lawyers Weekly
One thing to note about all of these law firms is the high value of their content and their willingness to blog. And it is no accident that those firms that blog produce better Web sites as well... something to think about. You can design and optimize, but great sites come from great lawyers who write.
Congrats to the firms and thanks to Micah for considering us and them!!!
Peace - Tim
You can learn more about justia's Law Firm Web Site Design Services and our Lawyer Blog Design Services on our Marketing Solutions Web site.
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Legal Talk Network' Bob Ambrogi & J. Craig Williams' Coast to Coast PodCast on Law Firm Web Sites with Peter Boyd, Dennis Kennedy and Tim Stanley
Hi Friends,
The Coast to Coast show with Bob Ambrogi (Website | LawSites Blog | Media Law Blog) and J. Craig Williams' (Website | May It Please The Court Blog) did a PodCast on Lawyers' Websites for this week's show.
I was honored to be the West Coast legal talker, which also included from the East Coast law firm Website design firm PaperStreet's Peter Boyd and Middle America's legal technology thought leader, LexThink's Dennis Kennedy.
You can download the Coast to Coast PodCast as an mp3 or Real Media file directly on the Coast to Coast Website or by you can subscribe to Coast to Coast by way of iTunes (like I do :).
If you are interested in law firm Web site design beyond the program, you can read this blog, visit our Law Firm Search Engine Optimization Center, read Bob Ambrogi's articles and blog, PaperStreet's articles and blog and visit the resources Dennis Kennedy has put together as well as Dennis' blog.
You can find the Coast to Coast show and additional legal talk shows on the Legal Talk Network.
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Free Cobranding of our Supreme Court Center and Cases for Web Sites & Blogs
We have updated the Supreme Court Center (which features US Supreme Court cases since volume 1) to allow anyone to cobrand the center or a case by adding their own graphics and a linkback to their Web site, Web page or Blog.
You can add a graphic with a linkback in the header and, for individual cases, a graphic with linkback on the top of the case resources box. The linkback and graphics will remain on pages as individuals, who visit from your site, browse cases and do searches in the Supreme Court Center.
You can have the linkback take the user back to the home page of your Web site or Blog or you could have different links on different pages or posts - each taking the user back to the page of the original link.
Here is what the cobranding looks like with Little Sheba the Hug Pug graphics and a link to her Blog at HugPug.com
To make your own cobrand of the Supreme Court Center (or just a case) here is what you need:
1. A URL to linkback to (required)
This URL could be your home page URL or the URL of a blog post. Any URL will do.
example: http://www.hugpug.com
2. The URL for a 360px width X 55px height image for the header of the page (optional)
example: http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
If you do not provided an image we will show the following default image:
3. The URL for a 200px width X 120px height image for the header of the page (optional)
example: http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg
If you do not provided an image we will show the following default image:
COBRANDING A CASE, THE SEARCH AND THE SITE
You can link to and cobrand an individual case, the Supreme Court Center home page or a year or volume of the cases and your linkback and graphics will be included on all of the cases and search results in the Supreme Court Center reached from that initial link.
LINKING TO AN INDIVUDAL CASE
Here is the URL for the link in the screen shot above:
http://supreme.justia.com/us/544/04-368/case.html?friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
&friendlogo=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
&friendcaseimage=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg
Note: Keep the URL on one line. We have only added line breaks to make them easier to read on this page.
This URL can be broken down into a few parts.
A. URL of the case:
http://supreme.justia.com/us/544/04-368/case.html
B. a question mark: ?
C. The URL you want the graphics to linkback to (this is required):
friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
D. An ampersand: &
E. The image (360px width x 55px height) that shows up in the top right hand side of the page (this is optional):
friendlogo=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
F. Another ampersand: &
G. An image (200px width x 120px height) that will show above the case resources box (this is optional):
friendcaseimage=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg
NOTE: If you give us just the URL and nothing else, we will provide you two fine looking generic graphics (seen above) that will linkback to your Web site.
Here is a an example where we only receive the URL
http://supreme.justia.com/us/544/04-368/case.html?friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
Also If you only provide one graphic, we will use the generic graphic for the other one.
COBRANDING SEARCH
You can also add your link and graphics to the Supreme Court Search. Just replace the 3 variables friendurl, friendlogo and friendcaseimage with your own (or just the ffriendurl without the other two).
--- begin text copy ---
<p>
<form action="http://supreme.justia.com/scripts/search" method="post" name="fulltextsearch">
<input type="text" size="50" name="q" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="friendurl" value="http://www.hugpug.com">
<input type="hidden" name="friendlogo" value="http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg">
<input type="hidden" name="friendcaseimage" value="http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg">
<input type="submit" name="Search" value="Search Cases">
</form>
</p><p>
Browse by >>
<a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/index.html?friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
&friendlogo=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
&friendcaseimage=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg">Volume</a>
|
<a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/year/index.html?friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
&friendlogo=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
&friendcaseimage=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg">Year</a>
</p>
--- end text copy ---
Note: Keep the browsable Volume and Year line URLs on one line. We have only added line breaks to make them easier to read on this page.
The Result will look like this (try a search :)
COBRANDING THE HOME PAGE OR A SECTION
You can also cobrand other pages in the Supreme Court Center and include the linkback and your own graphic. The graphics and linkback will continue to show as users search and browse the cases from the entry point (click on one of the links below and check it out).
Here are sample cobranding link codes:
Supreme Court Center Home Page
http://supreme.justia.com/index.html?friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
&friendlogo=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
&friendcaseimage=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg
Volume 379
http://supreme.justia.com/us/379/index.html?friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
&friendlogo=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
&friendcaseimage=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg
Year 1964
http://supreme.justia.com/us/year/1964.html?friendurl=http://www.hugpug.com
&friendlogo=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/hugpug.jpg
&friendcaseimage=http://www.hugpug.com/photos/images/sheba_pup.jpg
Note: Keep the URL on one line. We have only added line breaks to make them easier to read on this page.
Okay there you go, now you can be just like Little Sheba the Hug Pug and have your own Supreme Court Database with your own graphics and links back to your site. (and Little Sheba will be making an additional cobrand soon - for her Dog Law site :)
Peace - Tim
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Dog Law with Little Sheba the Hug Pug
Hi Friends,
Well it has been two years since Little Sheba the Hug Pug came to live with the pack, traveling by car from her home in Los Angeles in rented Red Mustang. Sheba is very happy to be here playing with the programmers everyday and barking at the lawyers on the phone.
To celebrate her two year anniversary, Sheba is announcing her very own Dog Law Web site which she made with us and her friends from Nolo (especially Mary Randolph !!! :).
Sheba's Dog Law site is in continuous update mode... so look for more and more information in the days and weeks ahead - including more pictures :)
Peace - Tim (and Little Sheba the Hug Pug)
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Intuit Intranet Legal Portal
Hi Friends,
One of the side things we do is make stuff for friends in the area. Recently we helped make Intuit a legal portal for their Intranet. Nolo provided the content, while we did the programming. If you work at Intuit, you can login and check it out.
For our estate planning clients - Intuit and Nolo will give a free one year professional license of the Quicken WillMaker for making client wills - normally priced for $500 (Individuals can buy WillMaker directly form Nolo for personal use as a download for $39.99). Nolo has been doing a quite a bit in the last year to bring their products for the professional market. If you interested in a professional license of their products see Nolo's Professional Use Licenses information page. And there is some other stuff coming out of Berkeley for lawyers... but I will wait until they say it is okay to post about it :)
Peace - Tim
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