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Online Legal Research at FindLaw.com Just Got Easier
Redesign of Web Site Reduces Search Time for Users
Mountain View, Calif. (November 9, 2000) -- FindLaw, the pioneer and leader in online legal information and services, announced today that it has redesigned its Web site, making it faster and easier for legal professionals and others to conduct legal research, obtain legal services and connect to members of the legal community.
Members of the site's four primary user groups--legal professionals, law students, businesses and the public--still have access to FindLaw's vast collection of legal resources and services. But now they can navigate the site through four new channels, each specifically targeted to their expertise, needs and knowledge. Within each channel, users can search FindLaw's offerings by jurisdiction, by legal subject or by using a primary or secondary materials distinction. The site's content and services now have a familiar, consistent layout that users will instantly recognize.
Search times have dropped dramatically with the site's new design. "This redesign offers a logical navigational system that makes legal research quicker, easier and more understandable," says FindLaw Librarian Cicely Wilson, leader of the redesign team. "Its purpose is consistent with FindLaw's purpose: to help make legal information, services and communities easy to find and use. The redesign takes the navigational preferences of each major user group into account without any loss of user resources."
The new format includes two navigational bars at the top of FindLaw's home page. "For some time, we have been acutely aware of just how much information we have on the FindLaw site, and we have been consumed with meeting the challenge of making all of this information available to everyone," says FindLaw Vice President of Sales Steven Drace. "The redesign lets legal professionals quickly locate documents and forms within their channel without having to wade through material more likely to be of interest to nonspecialists."
"What I like about the new design is it lets you scroll down the home page and see everything listed on each of the four channels," says Carole Levitt, president of Culver City, California-based Internet for Lawyers, a research training and seminar company that helps attorneys find free legal resources on the Internet. "With the site's new format, it took less time for me to get to FindLaw features that I find especially useful, such as Law Office and Practice and the FindLaw Newsletters," she adds.