Greetings from all of us at USLegal, and welcome to our March Newsletter.
Every year we strive to offer unmatched excellence in the online legal services industry. A recurring benchmark for us is the TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award, which we are once again proud to claim for 2010!
The Gold Award is a fitting exclamation point following the prestigious Harvard Journal of Law and Technology’s prominently featuring USLegal in an article comparing the business models of several leading online legal services companies and concluding that USLegal’s approach represents the future of the industry. Find out how to join us!
Our multifaceted approach to legal services now features USLegal Law Support for your firm or company, including legal research, briefs, memos, state surveys, document preparation and more. See below for details.
Last but not least, Dave Ramsey is praising our Small Business Forms Packages. Read on.
At USLegal, customer satisfaction is our greatest asset and goal. If we’ve made your legal life easier, please tell your friends and family about us. If you have a routine legal need, make us your first stop. And now, our news:
USLegalForms.com Ranked FIRST Among Legal Forms Sites - Five Years Running
For the FIFTH year in a row, USLegalForms.com has won the Gold Award for Online Legal Forms Service bestowed annually by independent consumer-help web site TopTenREVIEWS. USLegalForms.com received the Gold Award for ranking first among eleven legal forms web sites examined and compared by the researchers at TopTenREVIEWS. Click the link to see their detailed analysis.
Article Taps Build USLegal Platform as Future of Industry, Finds USLegal Uniquely Positioned.
The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology prominently features USLegal in a January 26, 2010 article by Chris Johnson, Leveraging Technology to Deliver Legal Services. Johnson, a graduate of Harvard Law School, also holds a degree in economics from Yale University.
The article examines the evolution of online legal services technology, studies the different business models employed by several participants in the field including USLegal, considers the obstacles and changing environment hampering successful operations (consistently overcome by USLegal), and discusses the industry’s future, arguing that both consumers and legal professionals will benefit by embracing expanding online legal services.
Johnson concludes that the industry’s terrain is shifting to favor an “online pure-play, multi-sided, quasi-open platform” able to adapt to a wider range of consumer needs - and observes that USLegal, incorporating these three elements in its Build USLegal platform, is uniquely positioned among its competitors to successfully serve the public and the legal profession going forward.
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Dave Ramsey Recommends: USLF Small Business Forms Packages
Dave Ramsey is a nationally recognized expert and advocate in the fields of personal finance and business management. We are proud that Dave recommends our products. This spring, he’s highlighted our Small Business Forms Packages. Click to view.
“I’ve been endorsing US Legal Forms for several years now. The fact is I don’t put my name behind anything if I don’t believe in it. U.S. Legal Forms is the only company I recommend for your low cost, state specific legal forms. If you want to save time and money, there’s no better choice than US Legal Forms.com.”
- Dave Ramsey, on The Dave Ramsey Show
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Legal News In Brief
We track breaking legal news at the USLegal Reporter. Check in regularly to stay updated on top national legal stories. The following are snippets from some of the items of interest we’ve spotted in the last month. Check the above link for our full reports:
Obama Attacks Supreme Court Ruling on Political Contributions
In an unusual move, President Obama criticized a recent ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court during his State of the Union address, with six of the nine members of the court sitting a few feet in front of him. The ruling he was criticizing, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, will allow unrestricted political campaign contributions by unions, advocacy groups, and corporations. At issue in the case was whether spending restrictions applied to a conservative group’s documentary, “Hillary: The Movie.” … (continue reading at the Reporter)
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Military Funeral Protest Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Westboro Baptist Church members can protest at military funerals under First Amendment protection of free speech. The protesters from the Kansas church have been appearing at military funerals with inflammatory messages on signs, such as “Thank God for Dead Soldiers”. They believe that deaths of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality … (continue reading at the Reporter)
Supreme Court Hears Ex-Enron CEO Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the appeal of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who is currently serving a 24-year sentence after being convicted on 19 counts of conspiracy, insider trading, and securities fraud. The Court will consider if and to what extent the government must rebut the presumption of jury prejudice due to pretrial publicity and community impact from the crimes. Also at issue is whether the federal honest services fraud statute is unconstitutionally vague. … (continue reading at the Reporter)
Check out controversial legal issues of all stripes with us at the USLegal Blog. Voice your opinion in the comments section. Recently we’re discussing the issue of lawsuits in response to extreme violence and injury in sports, and where the legal line should be drawn.
Have a Legal Question? Ask a Lawyer
If you want to find out more information about a certain area of law, consider USLegal’s Ask a Lawyer service. The service enables you to submit your question to a lawyer who will provide you with legal information.
The charge for this service is $15.95 per question.
Legal advice is not provided. If your question cannot be answered without providing legal advice, you will not be charged. In the event you desire to retain an attorney, you will be provided with sources for choosing an attorney for you to consider.
Request a Legal Definition
We’ve been building a database of legal definitions that has reached thousands of entries - all from your requests. Browse the database or ask for a legal definition (a free service) at USLegal’s free online legal dictionary.
