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Friday, January 09, 2004
Dueling lawyer listings Still no change in the Littler, Bingham, Choate Web watch. This means that, if someone unaware of the week's events went online to search for either Suzanne Suppa Sullivan or Gregory C. Keating, they would find each of them listed on the Web sites of two different firms, with no way of knowing which listing was correct. Thursday, January 08, 2004
Littler lists its new lawyers, but Bingham, Choate unchanged Littler Mendelson now lists the attorneys in its new Boston office (although the page caption that shows in the browser bar says "Atlanta Attorneys"). It does not yet have their bios on its list of shareholders. Meanwhile, two of the attorneys listed here continue to appear on their former firm's sites, Suzanne Suppa Sullivan and Gregory C. Keating. Why does this matter? As I said in my comment to yesterday's post, it shows that major law firms still do not understand the power of the Internet. They still do not factor in their Web sites as critical parts of their media machinery. It suggests that firm leaders are not paying attention to their own sites and are not thinking about whether anyone else might be. Wednesday, January 07, 2004
No change on the Bingham, Choate, Littler Web site watch Status quo today in the wake of four lawyers leaving three Boston firms to start a new Boston office for San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson. While Bingham McCutchen yesterday removed partner David C. Casey's name from its Web site, it retains the name of associate Suzanne Suppa Sullivan. And Choate Hall & Stewart still lists departing partner Gregory C. Keating. No mention yet of the new lawyers on Littler's Web site. Tuesday, January 06, 2004
New ABA home page promises easier navigation The American Bar Association's new home page is designed to offer easier navigation into the ABA's dense Web site. Unfortunately, what had been a sharp and stylish front page now looks somewhat scattered. The ABA is to be commended for trying to make its site easier to use, but my experience was that it had already been fairly easy to find my way into. A blog about legal style and ethics beSpacific offers this report on the launch of BlogBook, a guide to legal blogging that hosts an ongoing discussion of style, ethics and technical issues associated with blawgs. The site's design resembles that of the Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation, and its three authors are attorneys who are also writers and marketing experts. An article about their work is here. Bingham half updates its site, but neither Choate nor Littler As of yesterday, neither Bingham McCutchen nor Choate Hall & Stewart had removed from their Web sites the bios of the lawyers who jumped ship to Littler Mendelson, although Hale and Dorr had. Today, Bingham has removed partner David C. Casey, but, mysteriously, still lists departing associate Suzanne Suppa Sullivan. Choate still lists departing partner Gregory C. Keating. Over at Littler's site, still no mention of any of them, although it does have a space for them. Of legal ethics and haiku Blog land seems quiet -- Muteness of ethicalEsq. No more! David's back. ... And he's added haiku. Yes, I know he's been back for a month from his self-imposed exile from blogging, but I've been off in my own exile, finishing my book, and never got around to mentioning the return of this great blog, now known as ethicalEsq & haikuEsq. Why legal ethics and haiku? Let David explain. Monday, January 05, 2004
Firms slow to update Web sites when partners jump firms How quickly should a firm update its Web site when a lawyer jumps ship? The Boston Globe reports this morning, in a story titled Top lawyers jump ship for Littler, that four lawyers from three Boston firms are jumping ship to join the new Boston office of Littler Mendelson, a San Francisco-based firm specializing in employment law. This made me wonder how long it would take for each firm's Web site to respond. Interestingly, as of this morning, only one of the three "abandoned" firms has removed the lawyer's name from its site, and Littler has yet to add any of the new lawyers' names to its site. Here's where it stands:
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