Released on: September 19, 2008, 7:54 am

Press Release Author: LawyerAhead Inc.

Industry: Law

Press Release Summary: More and more lawyers are turning to legal networking sites
to help them avoid the current financial crisis.

Press Release Body: Toronto, Canada—September 19th, 2008—The current crisis on Wall
Street has had much wider repercussions than just the financial markets. With the
bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, taking over of Merill Lynch by Bank of America and
now with the US government stepping in to save AIG, thousands of jobs have been lost
worldwide. Not just the employees of the respective organizations but service
providers and vendors connected to these companies have all been affected.

Even lawyers working with financial firms and other companies who are directly
involved in the current crisis have not been spared. Many lawyers have lost
important clients and the ones who are directly employed by financial companies have
lost their jobs completely.

But luckily for the lawyer community, the internet has come to their rescue in a big
way. Since a year, legal networking websites have been growing in popularity and
some sites like www.lawyerahead.ca & www.lawyerahead.com have seen over 120% growth
in traffic from users requiring the services of a lawyer. Now these legal networking
sites are witnessing a huge increase in the number of lawyers who provide help and
legal advice to their online communities and also offering legal services to users
who put up their grievances on these sites. Few lawyers even claim that they have
stopped using traditional forms of marketing completely and are using legal
networking sites to promote themselves and interact with potential clients.

This is not surprising considering registering in legal networking sites is free and
premium services cost a fraction of what it would cost to traditionally marketing
ones services. These cost savings can be passed on to the customer which creates a
win-win situation for everyone.



Web Site: http://www.lawyerahead.com

Contact Details: Pete Kohulapalan
LawyerAhead Inc.
176 Highglen Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
L3S1X4
Canada
pr@lawyerahead.com
www.lawyerahead.com (US)
www.lawyerahead.ca (Canada)
647-808-4447