Attract New Clients with a FindLaw Lawyer Directory Profile

A profile on the newly enhanced FindLaw Lawyer Directory may be your best investment and a perfect complement to your Web site. A FindLaw Lawyer Directory profile gives you something you won’t get anywhere else—enhanced presence on the world’s busiest legal portal. With nearly 4 million unique visitors per month, people are using FindLaw more than any other site to locate legal information and lawyers.

However, exposure to this impressive audience is only half of the equation. To encourage these prospective clients to reach out to you for assistance, it’s essential that your profile address the common questions they have and highlight the unique qualities and experience you possess.

FindLaw continually collects feedback from our attorney directory users to ensure that profiles are delivering the information that potential clients need when choosing an attorney for assistance. As a result of surveys conducted earlier in 2005, we’ve enhanced the FindLaw Lawyer Directory profiles to enable users to quickly evaluate an attorney’s practice, which can make the difference in choosing counsel. The enhancements include the following:

Free Initial Consultation. Profiles now allow you to indicate whether your firm offers free initial consultation. Seventy-seven percent of surveyed users thought this would be helpful.

Office Hours. You can now list your office hours within your profile. Eighty percent of surveyed users thought this would be helpful.

Credit Card Acceptance. You can now indicate in your profile whether or not your firm accepts credit cards as a means of payment for services. Sixty-one percent of surveyed users thought this would be helpful.

In addition, FindLaw has recently added nine new categories to its index of practice areas. These new categories enable you to more precisely target potential new clients while, at the same time, assist them in quickly identifying counsel for their needs. The new categories are:

Auto Dealer Fraud

Bad Faith Insurance

Class Actions­­–Plaintiff

Collections

Insurance Defense

Mergers and Acquisitions

Railroad Worker Injury/FELA

Tax Increment Financing

Whistleblower/Qui Tam

Because these new profile enhancements can make the difference in whether new clients using the FindLaw Lawyer Directory contact you for assistance, we strongly encourage you to update this information within your office and attorney profiles.

To update your profiles to include this new information, and any other firm or attorney updates, do one of the following:

Sign in or register to update your profiles at http://profileupdate.findlaw.com.

Call 1-800-777-7809 or send an e-mail message to help@profileupdate.findlaw.com 

to request profile data forms to complete and return to FindLaw.