Company Background

 

FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, is the world's leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw's roots go back to 1995, when two attorneys compiled a list of Internet resources for a group of law librarians in northern California. The response to the material was so positive they decided to post the information on the Internet.

Launched on Jan. 9, 1996, FindLaw.com soon offered a mix of cases, statutes, legal news, a lawyer directory, an online career center and community-oriented tools such as mailing lists and message boards. The Web site rapidly developed into the leading legal information site on the Internet.

West Group, a Thomson Corporation business unit, recognized FindLaw.com as a powerful tool for reaching legal professionals and for connecting attorneys with people in need of legal representation. In Jan., 2001, FindLaw and its 55 employees became part of West Group. The company enhanced the legal information portal while rapidly developing its law firm online marketing business and client development solutions.

Today, FindLaw.com remains the most popular site for free legal information on the Internet with more than four million legal consumers visiting each month and the largest legal directory available. FindLaw's law firm marketing solutions also dominate with award-winning Web sites, online video, online attorney profiles, search engine marketing and Internet advertising.

With more than 500 employees and $100 million in annual revenue, FindLaw continues to grow and lead the legal market. The company has the largest team of online experts in the industry, a national network of sales consultants and a proven ability to get results for its clients.

FindLaw Features

The FindLaw® Guide: Comprehensive guide to legal information including more than 50,000 human-edited site listings (with editorial descriptions) in more than 30 practice areas, as well as state-specific, federal and international materials. FindLaw facilitates access to online codes and case law, legal forms, legal publishers, legal associations, law schools and law reviews, legal experts and continuing legal education courses. FindLaw's channels for business and the public help non-lawyers navigate the Web for legal information and services.

The LawCrawler®: Full-text Web search engine powered by Google and geared specifically for legal research.

FindLaw Cases and Codes: Free, daily updated case law, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893, California Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions back to 1934 (with citations and internal page numbers), recent U.S. Circuit Court and other state court decisions and federal and state codes.

FindLaw Newsletters and Opinion Summaries: Over 50 free email newsletters, including daily opinion summaries, legal headlines and topical newsletters.

Legal News: Updated throughout the day and night and covering a range of legal topics.

West Legal Directory: Searchable database with more than one million lawyer and law firm listings.

Thomson Legal Record: A unique research tool, combining an attorney's litigation history on Westlaw with the attorney's profile on FindLaw. It provides a simple, efficient, fully documented resource for legal and corporate professionals seeking experienced litigators and a verifiable basis for decision-making.

FindLaw Legal Market Center: A searchable directory of businesses that provide a broad range of products and services to the legal community. Services and products listed include expert witnesses, legal technology products, process servers, legal investigators, mediators, couriers, paralegals, and court reporters.

FindLaw Library: Full-text searchable compendium of thousands of documents covering more than 200 topics and published by prominent law firms, bar associations, legal publishers, and the federal government.

FindLaw's Career Center: The most complete online legal career center, with law firm salary charts, legal job listings, personalized legal job placement services and legal discussion forums. If you’re looking to hire, FindLaw Careers lets you reach the largest audience of legal professionals on the Internet. If you’re looking to advance your career, you can review our law firm profiles, salary charts and job listings, which are searchable by location, job type and practice area.

MY FindLaw: Free desktop feature that creates a customized page of FindLaw's content and service offerings.

FindLaw LegalMinds: Virtual legal community including mailing list archives and message boards.

FindLaw's Court Forms: Free access to nearly 8,000 forms from federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts as well as state courts. Available forms include civil and criminal subpoenas, summonses, complaints, affidavits and schedules.

FindLaw's 'Writ': Online legal magazine offering readers penetrating legal commentary from leading lawyers, scholars and writers, along with a provocative, entertaining look at law and the legal world.

FindLaw For The Public: Thousands of articles and resources in scores of categories to help the public with a wide range of legal issues, from bankruptcy to landlord/tenant law to selecting a lawyer.

FindLaw Supreme Court Center (Constitutional Law Center): An educational resource site focusing on the United States Constitution and its impact on society. The Center's collections include historic documents, biographies of Supreme Court justices and founding fathers, landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases as well as a searchable database of decisions back to 1893.

FindLaw Small Business Center: Includes essential information on starting, financing, managing and marketing a business, including step-by-step checklists, model business plans, legal and other business forms and documents and the latest legal and business news.

FindLaw Business Contracts: Searchable collection of legal agreements between today's hottest companies.

FindLaw Legal Technology Center: Current personal, business and legal technology news. Includes articles, press releases, white papers, and more.

Contact Law: A directory of solicitors located throughout the United Kingdom.

FindLaw Office: A suite of Web-based practice applications, including document management, Web site development and Web-based email.

FindLaw Sports: Daily news on legal issues in sports, ranging from drug use to college recruiting violations, and special features and analyses on sports and the law.

FindLaw Entertainment: Provides legal entertainment news, an entertainment law guide, an entertainment case law library, legal entertainment media guides and opinion polls.

FindLaw Lawyer Marketing: In-depth legal marketing information, including marketing articles, product information, newsletters and more.

University Law Review Project: Full-text search capability for Internet law review articles and mailing lists of article abstracts. ULRP is run by FindLaw and Stanford University and sponsored by the Coalition of Online Journals and the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

Other Services: FindLaw's additional resources and services include an online legal dictionary.