Disrupting the Lawyer Ratings Paradigm

For nearly 150 years, clients' opinions about their lawyers have been relegated to word of mouth. Information passed on in this manner is not recorded in any organized way and is therefore not available to the general public. In that time, the only organized source of information about lawyers came from lawyers themselves. All of that is now changing in a rapid, dramatic and explosive fashion, opening new channels and communities of information for legal services consumers, and creating exciting marketing and business development opportunities for lawyers and law firms.

11 minute read February 28, 2008 at 03:53 PM
By
Joseph M. Campos
Disrupting the Lawyer Ratings Paradigm

Robert Frost once said: 'A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.' Although obviously a quite cynical view of our country's jury system, Frost's statement confirms the reality that clients have opinions about lawyers and act on those opinions.

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