lawyrs.net Blog

Hi folks,

That’s right: it’s update time here at lawyrs.net. We’re just catching our breath after spending the last month or so building up the law firms directory. Now if you go to the directory, you’ll be able to choose from many big law firms (Freshfields, Clifford Chance, DLA Piper, and dozens more). You’ll see a complete list of their practices areas and international offices, as well as recent news about the firm posted by members of the lawyrs community. Click on any of the “Offices” locations, and you’ll see why we’ve been so busy – office-specific information, including contact information and maps.

We hope the “Law Firms” directory will eventually become a centerpiece of the lawyrs community. Therefore, we will continue to work on expanding its content and functionality. Pretty soon, users will be able to search and find other lawyrs at specific law firms and offices. Lawyrs will also be able to post information and news about their own law firm or office straight onto the directory. Essentially, you’ll have user-driven “news channels” for each law firm.

But enough about the near future! Let’s talk about right now! We’re delighted to say that we now have a community of registered lawyrs representing 58 countries. Not a bad showing for a private beta testing phase!

Meanwhile, we’re seeing lots of activity in the “Groups” section. This is largely due to the welcome arrival of many international lawyers from LLM GUIDE, our partner website. We’re happy to see that many incoming LL.M. students are using lawyrs.net to make contact with future classmates. At last count, the “Georgetown LLM Class of 2009″ group had 20 members.

In the next few weeks, we will be beginning our public beta phase. That means that anyone can register without an invitation. We hope that an increase of users will enrich the website even more, and allow us to expand our services and functionality for the lawyrs community.

Speaking of improvements, we are always happy to receive comments and suggestions from lawyrs. Feel free to post in the “Beta Group” on lawyrs.net, or send a message directly to Hannes or Setarah.

Thanks again to everyone who has stayed active on lawyrs.net over the last few months. We’re looking forward to an exciting 2008 here! We’ll be in touch soon. Take care.