FindLaw Timeline
1995
1995 - Two attorneys compile a list of Internet resources for a group of California law librarians then decide to post the information on the Internet.
1996
January 9 - FindLaw.com is launched.
June 28 - FindLaw introduces online continuing legal education courses.
1997
1998
1999
January 19 - FindLaw Nominated for 1999 Webby Award
March 31 - Findlaw Named Best Legal Website Third Year In A Row by legal.online
December 6 - FindLaw Expands Offerings With Free Access to Legal Briefs for United States Supreme Court Cases
December 20 - FindLaw Acquires lawyermarketing.comSM and Launches FindLaw Lawyer Marketing
2000
FindLaw Announces Partnerships to Share Content with FSB (Fortune Small Business), CNN Interactive, EarthLink, Quicken.com, Washingtonpost.com, NYTimes.com, Court TV, and USA Today.
March 29 - Two Largest Law Portals Join Forces to Generate Five Times the Traffic of Nearest Competitor
May 12 - FindLaw Wins "People's Voice" Award for Best Politics & Law Web Site at The Webby Awards 2000
May 30 -FindLaw Unveils "Writ," First E-Zine About The Law
October 17 - Findlaw Launches Massive Lawyer and Law Firm Directory
2001
January 26 - West Group acquires FindLaw.
November 28 - FindLaw Traffic Exceeds 42 Million Page Views Per Month
2002
February 5 - FindLaw Joins Forces With Yahoo!
July 17 - FindLaw Enhances Position as Most Popular Legal Web Site
July 23 - FindLaw E-newsletter Distribution Reaches Five Million per Month
December 19 - FindLaw Now Ranks in Top 500 U.S. Web Sites
2003
April 25 - FindLaw Selected "The Best of Reference" By The New York Public Library
September 3 - FindLaw Becomes the 411th Most Trafficked U.S. Web Site, Surpasses 4.11 Million Unique Visitors
November 10 - FindLaw to Provide Wall Street Journal Online With Law-Related Resources and Tools
2004
February 9 - FindLaw listed in PC Magazine's '50 from the Best of the Internet
March 23 - FindLaw.com: Number One on the Web for Information About the Law and Lawyers; According to comScore Media Metrix, a leading, independent Web usage monitoring service, FindLaw.com ranked 385th most visited among all Web sites in February 2004 - climbing from 570th this time last year. This represents the highest ranking any legal information Web site has ever received. FindLaw's nearest competitor placed a distant 2,493rd.
July 26 - FindLaw Acquires Hubbard One - the legal profession's leading provider of marketing applications to large U.S. law firms
2005
May 6 - FindLaw.com Named Best Legal Web Site in Ninth Annual Webby Awards Most visited legal site, with 3.7 million unique monthly users.
June 20 - FindLaw named one of 50 Coolest Websites of 2005 by Time.com
FindLaw.com launches new online legal centers for Immigration law, family law, real estate law, small business,
2006
June 5 - FindLaw Launches LegalConnection
October 31 - FindLaw Launches FirmSite en Espaņol
2007
March - FindLaw launches SEM/A. 161 subscriptions sold in 5 weeks. The search engine marketing product wins the 2007 TNAL Award of Excellence in the category of Growth.
May 24 - Thomson FindLaw Wins Three Honors at 2007 Webby Awards
November 1 - Thomson FindLaw Wins Four WebAwards From Web Marketing Association
2008
March 10 - FindLaw launches online video products and SEM/A essential.
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