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Advertising is a relatively recent development in the legal profession, and not all law firms engage in it today. Nonetheless, it is advisable for every law firm to take note of the important resource the internet has become to consumers seeking products and services. Computers are a household standard, and the internet provides information on every profession, in formats from simple 'yellow page' listings to proprietary web pages with audio and video presentations. Even among lawyers and firms that chose not to advertise, the importance of the internet as a consumer resource should not be overlooked.

There is a large assortment of online listing vehicles for attorneys. A lawyer seeking to be included in commercial online attorney listings could pay to have his or her name inserted in such sites as findlaw.com, lawinfo.com, lawyers.com, or the many 'yellow pages' services now online. There are at least four national listing services for personal injury attorneys, and others for family law, criminal law and so forth. Association membership is a vehicle for specialty listings: the Consumer Attorneys Association, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, The Council of Parent Attorneys, etc.

Then there are the localized ecommerce service listings for regions that are just as aggressive in seeking exposure on the search engines. In short, an attorney could make a significant investment in listing services alone. However, a simple listing is a hit-and-miss proposition: there is nothing in a mere listing that invites interest from the shopper. A personalized web site for an attorney or a law firm is the highest and best use of the internet.

A law firm with its own hosted website can accomplish a number of things. Most people who are conducting a random search for an attorney are probably somewhat frightened, not certain of the law regarding their problem, and concerned about cost. Moreover, there exists today a widespread skepticism about attorneys, especially among the uninitiated. A hosted website can ease some of those uncertainties, and thus invite contact from the potential client.

The website can describe the firm's areas of legal focus. It can act as an educational tool, explaining the basics of selected areas of law and suggesting some initial steps for the potential client. Eventually the client will end up in a lawyer's office somewhere, so providing some initial online education will give the law firm a benign and positive first impression.

A hosted website can provide and email template for an initial inquiry or invite a telephone call, 'no strings attached'. The website can suggest a few online sources that provide detailed explanations of various legal specialties. Finally, the law firm's web site can address the issue of payment and explain any options that might be available in that area.

As with other forms of media, defense and personal injury attorneys are the most likely to be found using the web as an advertising service. Most law firms with other sorts of specialties that use hosted websites tend to be a little more subtle, stressing the firm's longevity or stability, its successes and perhaps providing biographies of the firm's principal members.

A hosted web site can be an effective introductory tool for an attorney or a law firm. It can provide an initial level of comfort with the firm before any personal inquiries need be made. It can establish the firm's credentials in its chosen areas of legal specialization and it can make the process of initial contact a comfortable one by explaining how and when fee structures are applied.

Connecting a potential client with a hosted web site can, in part, be a function of the site through the use of keyword optimization. But it is probably more practical to assume that the initial reference will come from some other, more common source such as a former client or the local bar association. At that point, the hosted attorney's website becomes an effective outreach tool, minimizing the intimidating effect of a simple telephone number and a downtown address.

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Madison Lockwood is a customer relations associate, specializing in small business development, for Apollo Hosting. Apollo Hosting provides website hosting, ecommerce hosting, vps hosting, and web design services to a wide range of customers.

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The Origins of No-Fault Divorce
In 1970, California changed the way people look at divorce and made it a lot easier to get out of a marriage by passing the second no - fault divorce law in the United States. In 1953, Oklahoma passed the countries first laws doing away with the need to find fault in divorce. It took 17 years for the rest of the country to follow suit. Some would say that we have become a progressive country when it comes to our divorce laws. Some sternly, disagree.The Blame Game:Before 1970 and the move toward no-fault divorce laws getting a divorce meant proving that one spouse had done something wrong or had acted in a way that caused the breakdown of the marriage. Someone had to be at "fault," which meant that grounds for the divorce had to be established. Such grounds might include adultery, physical or mental abuse, abandonment, confinement or holding against one's will, insanity and the inability to be intimate with your spouse.Free to Leave:No-fault laws took away the need to find fault. No-fault law gives either party the freedom to sue for divorce with only the claim of "irreconcilable differences." Born of these laws was the concept of unilateral divorce: either partner feeling the urge to end the marriage could do so and.post continued

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Mel Gibson: Love, Misery and Midlife Crisis
We've learned a lot about Mel Gibson over the last week. It would seem he's a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, and an anti-Semite with quite the oral fixation. From where I sit it would seem that Mel is also on the down-side of one hell of a Midlife Crisis.I don't think the man we are now seeing is the man he once was? Seven years ago Mel did an interview with the Daily Mail, below is a quote from that interview. It is Mel on his long-term marriage to then wife Robin."You're going to get ups and downs and you're going to get days when you really want to strangle each other. That is just going to happen. It doesn't matter who the other person is. You can think, 'Well, if I find someone else', but that's bullshit. You're going to go through the same old shit with anybody. You just have to adapt and give and take and receive and give. So you might as well stay where you're at and figure it out.'Every time that happens and you go through a dry spell - and in 22 years that happens a lot - when you come out the other side you're just so much better at it."Compare the words above to those we've all heard lately from Mel. He went from righteous family man to a man whose actions fly in the face of his previous belief system. And no doubt you've noticed the self-referential and grandiose thought patterns displayed. All typical signs of someone having a difficult time transitioning during midlife.The good news for Mel is that some do "come out the other side" and are much better "at it" whatever that "it" is. And, if lucky the wife and children they left behind will be waiting in the wings. It would seem, if reports are true that Mel will be one of the lucky ones.According to New York Magazine Mel has sold properties owned here in the U.S. and will move back to Australia. Some friends say plans are for his ex-wife Robin to also move with him. According to the DailyTelegraph, "Oksana's allegations of domestic abuse have united Mel and Robyn, and the move is Robin's idea."Whether the reports of a move to Australia are true or not, one can still hold onto the hope that somewhere inside Mel Gibson is the ability to make amends with the people who count, his wife and children who have continued to love him through and in spite of this destructive phase of life.Related Articles:Surviving Your Spouse's Midlife Crisis The Difference Between Men and Women in Midlife Crisis Communicating With a Midlife Crisis Spouse

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