Press Release
LegalMatch gets Top Listing in MSN Law-Topic Searches
San Francisco CA (March 3, 2003) — LegalMatch, the nation's leading attorney-client matching service, announced a deal today with MSN placing it among the top of MSN's law-related search results. MSN is a prominent search page for Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer and is the second-most visited web property in the country. MSN is visited by an estimated 33.4% of all Internet users in a month - or 48,396,000 people (source: Nielsen ratings). The LegalMatch/MSN partnership takes effect on March 6, 2003.
As a more effective alternative to standard online legal directories, LegalMatch has assisted tens of thousands of consumers by providing them with detailed information on pre-screened attorneys interested in representing them. Attorneys are admitted to the LegalMatch program only after they meet strict professional standards and in accordance with consumer demands in a given market. The program is designed to assist attorneys and small law firms in specializing their practice and improving operational efficiencies by allowing them to preview cases and hand-pick clients. With the number of consumers finding attorneys online at 20% and climbing [source: American Bar Association, 2002], LegalMatch expects its new positioning on MSN to improve its ability to assist both clients and attorneys.
"Because LegalMatch’s expansion is carefully regulated according to the volume and nature of our users' legal needs, a partnership with MSN is extremely significant," said Dmitry Shubov, LegalMatch CEO. "By growing steadily and slowly over the past four years, we’ve quietly become the only real player addressing the problems both consumers and attorneys face in finding one another. This new partnership with MSN is both an important enhancement for LegalMatch as a company, and a major step toward empowering a much larger sector of solo practitioners, small firms, and their clients."
About LegalMatch
As an intermediary between attorneys and the people who need them, LegalMatch enables consumers to find trustworthy, competent, caring lawyers. LegalMatch helps attorneys find high-value clients in their preferred specialty in a time-effective, cost-effective, risk-free way. LegalMatch employs outstanding patent-pending technology via its website, and provides personal support to member consumers and attorneys by an expert team dedicated to ensuring a true win-win relationship. A privately held company in San Francisco, CA, LegalMatch exemplifies the rare Internet success story: a fast-growth market leader that is cash-positive via sales and profitable without the burden of venture capital or debt.
About MSN
MSN has 9 million subscriptions and attracts more than 300 million
unique users worldwide per month. With localized versions available
globally in 34 markets and 18 languages, MSN is a world leader in
delivering Web services to consumers and digital marketing solutions to
businesses worldwide. MSN 8 is the first Internet software product to
have earned the trusted Good Housekeeping Seal. The most useful and
innovative online service today, MSN brings consumers everything they
need from the Web to make the most of their time online. MSN is located
on the Web at http://www.msn.com/. MSN worldwide sites are located at
http://www.msn.com/worldwide.ashx.