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Online Attorney Directories : How to Evaluate a Legal Directory on the internet

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There are a number of websites that purport to have lawyers waiting to help. The reality is most of these websites are only attorney directories created by marketing teams who have no understanding of regulations or, in many cases, who have no connection to a real lawyer or attorney.

These online attorney directories often land in the top of the search engine. The marketing teams help ensure this happens. This leaves you, the consumer who is looking for an attorney, with the challenge of having to evaluate the online attorney directory. Here are some tips for evaluating online lawyer directories as you search for the right lawyer.

Determine whether the directory is a paid directory.

Paid directories are those that require lawyers to pay a fee to be listed in the directory. Paid directories usually have the most accurate contact and practice area information Employment attorney. Legal professionals who pay to be included in the directory don't mind spending time in making sure their information is correct.

The downside to these directories is they may have very few attorney listings. This raises the question as to what types of legal professionals pay to be listed on an online legal directory. Many successful legal professionals don't need to incur this expense in order to carry out their trade. Other very good legal professionals do incur this expense, but most of them do not do it regularly. For example, legal professionals who are just starting out, are changing practice areas, or are relocating to another state may initially use these directories as they establish their new law practices. Is this the type of lawyer you want to hire? If so, the paid legal directory may be just what you are looking for.

Look at free attorney directories.

Not all free online lawyer directories are bad. There are some very good ones. The best online legal directories usually have some direct involvement by legal professionals themselves. For example, many free online attorney directories have community forums where lawyers answer free legal questions. This will give the legal professionals to get the word out about their practice and their expertise, while helping point folks in the right direction.

Some other free online attorney directories focus on compiling contact information for lawyers. Most of these directories gather the information without any direction or input from the lawyers who are listed in the directory. These directories stand out as they usually just provide a listing of legal professionals. These directories often scrape the information away from legitimate websites with the sole goal of generating advertising dollars for themselves.

A recently available trend is for these websites to have an attorney profile page that can be "claimed" by the attorney. The point here is to bring visitors to the directory using the search engines thereby generating advertising revenues for the directory. The directory may also hope the lawyer will notice the profile and "claim" it by entering their information. Very few legal professionals actually claim profiles in this fashion. Indeed, many of them have to contact legal directories and enquire to have their names taken from the directory. Thus, you should avoid any attorney directory that indicates legal professionals should "claim" their profile.


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