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Something Old, Nothing New, Everything Borrowed, Shades of Blue
[Editor's Note: Before you run off to copyright your Web site, as advocated in Michael McCoy's accompanying article, you may want to check that it's original! Consider these observations of Ms. Tursi, abridged from her commentary in A&FP's sibling newsletter Marketing the Law Firm.]
Recently I've been doing some research on law firm Web sites and have noticed that the look, the feel, and yes the content of many of these sites is virtually the same. In a couple of instances, the exact wording from another firm site was used to describe a practice area.
Most of the larger firms started the same way and ultimately have merged and purged to get to the size they are today. Corporate America does that all the time, and the only time they tell you about it is in an annual report. Must we read about it every time we click on a law firm site?
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