Posts Tagged ‘attorney profiles’

Lawyers.com Review – Fair and critical evaluation of Lawyers.com

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Lawyers.com has been around since 1998. Lawyers.com has under gone several face lifts over the years as the site tries to improve the users experience. Once upon a time Lawyers.com was only an attorney directory with hundreds of thousands of attorney profiles. However, Lawyers.com has turned itself into a website that offers several types of services to legal consumers.


Lawyers.com claims to have over 1 million attorney profiles on their website. Claim to be the leading destination for legal content and attorney marketing solutions.

Contact Details:
Lexis Nexis Martindale-Hubbell
121 Chanlon Road
New Providence, NJ 07974
(800) 526-4902
Email: [email protected]

In my opinion, this greatly diminishes the value of the site to lawyers. That coupled with the fact that they completely oversell the number of attorneys that they list per city and per practice area. Many of my clients have elected to move forward with a Lawyers.com listing and profile even though it is obvious that they won’t receive much business.

Likes:
The amount of attorney profiles they list for consumers to choose from. Great for the consumer.
That they offer legal forms, legal questions answered (forum).
Legal information
Web traffic

Dislikes:
The design of the home page, too many links, too busy.
Oversold listings, not a good value for attorneys
Price, way too expensive and risky

Rating:
2 out of 5 stars

Lawyers.com review

How Important Are Attorney Profiles on Lawyer Directories?

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

One item I have been addressing a lot lately is the importance of filling out the attorney bio pages on attorney directories.  I say VERY important. There are a lot of lawyers out there more worried about their Facebook profile then the attorney profile in which they pay thousands of dollars to be listed.


Simply filling out your attorney bio on website directories such as AttorneyPages.com and other important directories does a lot to improve your results.

Here are a few things to consider:

  1. A well written attorney bio on important attorney directories will attract more visits to your profile through the search engines.
  2. Better conversion. Most attorneys don’t bother writing out their bio page. Doing so will position you better against the other competing firms listed within the directory.
  3. Content will increase traffic to your listings through the search engines.
  4. Drives more traffic to your website.

The bottom line is: Your paying for a listing on an attorney directory so get the most out of it by filling out your bio pages.

James