GetLegal is pleased to announce the launch of its full redesign of TexasInjuryAttorney.com, the flagship website for The Rasansky Law Firm.  Rasansky is a Texas-based plaintiffs’ law firm founded by Jeff Rasansky, a 20-year veteran in the personal injury field. The site is a comprehensive online resource for information relating to personal injury law. GetLegal provided not only an entirely new design and navigation for the site but also organized its hundreds of pages in a way to make them easily accessible for users. In addition, GetLegal is implementing premium search engine optimization (SEO) services to maximize the visibility of the site on the internet.

TexasInjuryAttorney.com provides legal information on a wide variety of personal injury topics, highlighting the areas of vehicle accidents, cerebral palsy and other birth injuries, medical malpractice, nursing home and daycare abuse, premises liability and defective products.  The site also offers videos and a blog that provide extensive information on personal injury law matters throughout Texas and the rest of the United States.

Rasansky states that he built TexasInjuryAttorney.com as a resource for people all over Texas, whether in small towns or large metropolitan areas such as Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin. He believes that negligence, neglect and injuries impact people from all walks of life and everyone deserves the leverage a lawyer brings to the table.  “That’s why our site helps guide visitors through what can be a delicate process and details when it’s appropriate to contact a lawyer in a personal injury case,” he states.

GetLegal also developed a multi-website marketing strategy for The Rasansky Law Firm, featuring “landing page” sites for five targeted practice areas:  nursing home abuse, Texas truck accidents, medical malpractice, defective products and cerebral palsy.  Contact us for information on how a multi-website campaign can help you.

Euless, Texas (August 27, 2009) — GetLegal today announced the launch of its new web-based Client Intake System (CIS).

New clients are the lifeblood of any law firm, but the process of tracking and qualifying leads can be cumbersome and time-consuming. If a firm doesn’t move quickly, other firms will scoop up the best cases. And how can a firm monetize the second-tier cases that it doesn’t want to handle itself? GetLegal’s Client Intake System, powered by bxLegal, offers solutions to these problems.

CIS is a secure web-based system that allows a firm to take control of the client intake process by automating management of all leads the firm receives by phone, e-mail or website. CIS centralizes all the information a firm uses to determine whether to sign a potential client and streamlines the referral process for those potential clients who aren’t the right fit for the firm.

CIS provides all the tools required to manage the intake process, offering the following key advantages:

• Increases Profits – Faster response means more signed clients. Powerful referral tracker increases referral revenue.
• Improves Responsiveness – CIS gives instant alerts of new client inquiries, questions from staff and other key events.
• Frees Staff Time – As a secure web-based system, CIS can be accessed from any computer at the office, at home, or in the field. A firm can deploy staff where they’re needed, and they can still access all necessary client intake data.
• Reduce Support Staff – CIS facilitates the entire client intake process and automates repetitive tasks.
• Accountability – CIS lets a firm see the party responsible for each potential client and the status of each intake.
• Risk Management – CIS facilitates better and easier communication with potential clients and documents each interaction.
• Marketing Tool – Firms can use CIS to measure and analyze the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and also to generate mass e-mails, newsletters and mailing lists to communicate with all or some of the parties in the CIS database.

After the initial setup, there are minimal requirements.

• No Hardware or Software to Install – CIS is hosted at an offsite data center. There is no hardware or software investment. All a user needs is a modern web browser.
• Affordable – CIS is an affordable solution priced to provide excellent value. Firms pay a monthly fee for each user. CIS will pay for itself with one good case or one unmissed referral fee, as well as by increasing efficiency and lowering staffing costs.
• Minimal Training – CIS is easy to learn and easy to use.
• Instantly Expandable – CIS grows with the firm. Attorneys and staff can be added at any time.

About GetLegal.com: GetLegal.com provides online interactive resources for the public and the legal community. The family of GetLegal sites includes FuenteLegal.com, a Spanish-language site providing legal information for the public, and GetLegalTV.com, an online television network with legal information and entertainment. GetLegal also provides custom-designed websites for law firms, including video production and full SEO services.

Media Contact
Akhil Saklani
Chief Operating Officer
GetLegal
Phone: 1-877-359-7077
E-mail: akhil.saklani@getlegal.com

The GetLegal team once again attended the Texas Advanced Family Law Seminar held in Dallas August 3-6. We had productive meetings with existing clients and met lots of new faces to discuss online marketing options for law firms, including web services, video services and our attorney directory.

Chief Operating Officer Akhil Saklani attended along with sales representative Sparta Townson, IT Manager Charles Strawn, SEO Manager David Host, Senior Web Developer Jake Smith, Manager of Fulfillment Wes Strawn, SEO Specialist Roy Rivera and Editor in Chief John Gutierrez and Reba Blevins of GetLegalTV. The team gave comprehensive information about our online marketing services to existing and prospective clients.

As always, clips of our video services drew lots of attention to our booth. As we’ve noted before on the blog, adding video to your website provides many benefits:

• Quality video of you on your site develops trust with clients, leading to higher conversion.
• Video keeps prospective clients on your site longer, increasing chances for conversion.
• Video is separately indexed by search engines, giving you better rankings in search results.

Contact our sales team today regarding a cutting-edge website for your firm and details on video packages. Complement that with our attorney directory to bring qualified clients to your firm from an inbound link from the Webby-Award winning GetLegal.com. You won’t be disappointed in our marketing services!

This past June, GetLegal.com attended the 13^th Annual Webby Awards ceremony in New York City to accept the award for Best Law Site of the year in the Webby People’s Voice Awards.

Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers hosted the event alongside notable presenters such as Cameron Diaz, Martha Stewart and Alan Cumming.  Some of the top Webby recipients included Trent Reznor, Sarah Silverman and Arianna Huffington, who all accepted their Webby Awards by means of the always entertaining five-word acceptance speeches.

“After Barely Legal, Get Legal” was Chief Operating Officer Akhil Saklani’s contribution to the evening’s humor as he accepted the award on behalf of GetLegal.com.

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video and mobile web sites. Established in 1996, the 13th Annual Webby Awards received over 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.

DALLAS, TX – MAY 5, 2009 - The global Web community has voted GetLegal as Best Law Site of the year in the Webby People’s Voice Awards.

This year, over 500,000 votes were cast by people around the world for their favorite sites, videos, and ads in The Webby People’s Voice Awards. A list of both Webby Awards and People’s Voice Awards winners can be found at http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=13.

GetLegal will be honored at a star-studded ceremony hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers on June 8th in New York City. On June 9th, fans will be able to watch the ceremony, including GetLegal’s five-word speech, at the official Webby Awards YouTube Channel.

Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile websites. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington and Harvey Weinstein.

“The Webby Awards honors the very best of the Internet,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. “GetLegal’s win is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators.”

“This award recognizes the outstanding work done by our incredible team of editors, developers and designers,” said Phillip Galyen, Chief Executive Officer of GetLegal. Akhil Saklani, GetLegal’s Chief Operating Officer added, “It’s gratifying to have the public recognize our efforts to provide them with a valuable resource for obtaining legal information.”

GetLegal’s primary portal, GetLegal.com, offers the public a broad range of legal information and engages visitors with innovative design and navigation. The Legal Information Center is the heart of GetLegal.com. Developed in partnership with Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, the Center combines accessible written content with high-definition video to educate users on basic legal principles relating to crime, personal injuries, divorce, employment, bankruptcy, immigration and many other topics. GetLegal.com also features an attorney directory with nationwide listings by location and practice area, as well as original featured articles. Most resources also are available in Spanish.

The 13th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states.

Founded in 1996, The Webby Awards are known worldwide for its famous five-word speech limit. Past Webby Award winners – and their speeches – include Al Gore (“Please don’t recount this vote”), Beastie Boys (“Can anyone fix my computer?”), and Stephen Colbert (“Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.”).

About GetLegal:

GetLegal.com provides online interactive resources for the public and the legal community. The family of GetLegal sites includes FuenteLegal.com, a Spanish-language site providing legal information for the public, and GetLegalTV.com, an online television network with legal information and entertainment.

About The Webby Awards:

Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites. Established in 1996, the 13th Annual Webby Awards received over 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: YouTube; Microsoft Silverlight; The Creative Group; .ORG; Getty Images; The Barbarian Group; Digital Kitchen; Variety; Wired; IDG; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail and Museum of the Moving Image.

Euless, Texas (October 24, 2008) — The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School, in partnership with GetLegal, has launched a new section of its popular website featuring Spanish-language overviews of selected topics on U.S. law.

The summaries of the law are written with the average person in mind. Initial topics covered include family law, accident and injury law, criminal law, immigration law, bankruptcy law, employment law and real estate law. The overviews also are featured on GetLegal’s Spanish-language site, FuenteLegal.com, along with original articles and other content.

About GetLegal.com: GetLegal.com provides online interactive resources for the public and the legal community. The family of GetLegal sites includes FuenteLegal.com, a Spanish-language site providing legal information for the public; GetLegalTV.com, an online television network with legal news, information and entertainment; and GetLegalCafe.com, a social networking site with a legal twist.

About the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School: The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School is one of the most linked-to legal websites with more than 1 million inbound links. It receives nearly 1 million page views per day from more than 200 countries.

Media Contact

Akhil Saklani
Chief Operating Officer
GetLegal
Phone: 1-877-359-7077
E-mail: akhil.saklani@getlegal.com

This week the web services team at GetLegal.com has released two new websites for the Romano Law Group out of West Palm Beach Florida.  Both new websites are comprised of custom design and content by GetLegal.com.

Take a closer look at the newly released sites at:

www.romanocriminallaw.com and www.romanotriallawyers.com

To view other custom websites created by the web services team at GetLegal, check out our law firm marketing section now.

The Taos Group met for its fifth annual retreat Oct. 3–7 at the fantastic and eco-friendly El Monte Sagrado Resort in Taos, N.M. Topics discussed included everything from marketing your law firm to hiring the best receptionist (what to call her: a receptionist or an “intake administrator”?). Group members from all over the country came together to discuss ways to grow their practice during changing economic times and to celebrate each other’s home runs as well as discuss the strikeouts.

Saturday night was a great time of surprises, and I am happy that GetLegal got to be a part of it. We had a lovely dinner at the JD Challenger art studio in Taos and were all amazed at the unveiling of the Bronze Statue “We the People” by JD Challenger. The statue, which will be shipped to Lake Worth, Fla., to become a part of the Romano Law Group’s new EcoCentre, depicts a Native American with a peace pipe kneeling on a stone tablet of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It was an emotional unveiling for John and Nancy Romano, who commissioned the work over three years ago specifically for the EcoCentre, which at that time was only a dream on paper.

I was grateful to be able to give a Gicle`e of another one of Mr. Challenger’s works, “The Bill of Rights,” to each Taos Group member, and Mr. Challenger kindly agreed to sign the back of each copy. Another thanks to Mr. Challenger and the wonderful staff of the gallery for a memorable evening.

Look forward to seeing you all next week at Mass Torts Made Perfect at the Bellagio in Las Vegas!

Sept. 16, 2008

Euless, Texas — GetLegal, a leader in online legal-information services, received recognition from the Web Marketing Association by winning the WebAward for Best Legal Website. During the 2008 competition, websites from 96 industries were judged independently on design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use. A professional judging panel selected by the association assessed www.getlegal.com and gave it high marks in all seven criteria. The site’s scored average was 30 percent higher than other websites in the Legal industry category and 16 percent higher than all websites selected to win a WebAward this year.

GetLegal welcomes visitors into an interactive environment that provides access to legal information for the public, management and research resources for legal professionals, and online marketing services for law firms. Using innovative design and technology, the website engages visitors and encourages them to explore the content found in its sections.

GetLegal’s public resources:

• Legal Information Center, developed in partnership with Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, combining reliable written content from experienced attorneys with high-definition video to educate users on basic legal principles related to criminal law, accident and injury law, family law, employment law, bankruptcy law, immigration law and many other areas of law
• Attorney directory with nationwide listings by location and practice area
• Original featured articles and current legal and financial news
• Daily features: Legal Tip of the Day, Crazy Law of the Day and Today in Legal History
• Most public resources also are available in Spanish

Highlights of the site for legal professionals:

• Legal Research Center, developed in partnership with Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, featuring organized and annotated links to all significant free legal research resources on the Internet
• Law Firm Marketing Center, offering resources for website design, web analytics, search engine optimization and video production along with descriptions of the services GetLegal offers in each area

GetLegal delivers custom, innovative and highly effective online marketing services, including website design, online video production, search engine optimization and web analytics. The writers, editors, designers, video producers and programmers who developed the website selected for this award also provide the same level of service and benefits to GetLegal’s clients.

About GetLegal

GetLegal.com provides online interactive resources for the public and the legal community. The family of GetLegal sites includes FuenteLegal.com, a Spanish-language site providing legal information for the public; GetLegalTV.com, an online television network with legal news, information and entertainment; GetLegalCafe.com, a social networking site with a legal twist; and TheAttorneyStore.com, a one-stop shop for the legal community.

About the WebAwards

The WebAwards competition sets the standard of excellence in 96 industry categories by evaluating websites and defining benchmarks based on seven essential criteria of successful site development. The goal of the Web Marketing Association, sponsor of the WebAwards, is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective websites on the Internet today.

Media Contact

Akhil Saklani
Chief Operating Officer
GetLegal
Phone: 1-877-359-7077
E-mail: akhil.saklani@getlegal.com

The GetLegal team had a great week in San Antonio for the Texas Advanced Family Law Seminar from Aug. 10–14. We had productive meetings with existing clients for web services and our attorney directory and also met lots of new faces to discuss marketing needs for law firms.

Chief Operating Officer Akhil Saklani made the trip with Product Fulfillment Manager Wes Strawn, giving comprehensive information to clients about our processes and goals for full client satisfaction.

GetLegal also sponsored the Tarrant County Family Bench Bar’s dinner and hospitality suite. Thanks to Janet Denton of Denton, Smith and Cunningham in Colleyville for organizing those events!

As always, GetLegalTV drew lots of attention to our booth, so I thought I would take this opportunity to explain GetLegalTV and the benefits of video on your website:

• The addition of video to your website keeps prospective clients on your site longer, increasing chances for conversion.
• Video is indexed independently by search engines, giving you a greater opportunity of being found through universal search.
• Quality video of you on your site develops trust with clients, leading to higher conversion.
• Quality video “paints the picture” of your law firm, showing prospective clients who you are and your commitment to their case.

Contact our sales team today regarding a cutting-edge website for your firm and our video packages. Complement that with our attorney directory to bring qualified clients to your firm from an inbound link from GetLegal. You won’t be disappointed in our marketing services!