Lawyards.com: Legal Marketplace

Lawyards.com is more than a marketplace for law things, people and ideas. It brings together various legal experts, practitioners, and services Lawyers, Legal Document Assistants, Abstractors, Bail Bondsmen, Claims Adjusters, Court Reporters, Expert Witnesses, Forensic Experts, Interpreters, Case Funders, Loss Quantifiers, Mediators, Notaries Public, Paralegal, Investigators, Process Servers, Title Examiners, etc. The site also provides links to resources for law students and other visitors, and meeting points for clients and legal professionals.

The Legal Marketplace offers classified ad pages for legal professionals and law material. Users have direct access to listings, and may browse or search the site freely, contact or communicate with the professionals, registered, however, users have additional features and benefits that make the site a true value to them.

User Admin: Users have incredible control over their ads and preferences through their personal account area. This "User Management Facility" provides the user with links to the following: My active Listing, My expired listing, My current information, Add new listing, Ad filters, My favorites, Communications (Messaging system)and Communication configuration.

Advanced Search: The site has a sophisticated search system that allows for a variety of different search criteria. Search can be by keyword, ad reference number, and category or simply search by browsing all the categories. Search is driven by category when "search" button is picked while inside a category.

Swap list: This is an automatic filtering engine that searches the contents of listings at the time they are placed and automatically send a notification to the user who has initiated a service swap filter. Services listed under service swap category that meet the user's swap filter criteria are sent via e-mail to the user. Users can set up as many swap lists as they want in their User Management section (User Admin)

Favorite: Every registered user has his or her own favorite folder. Users can store postings of interest in this folder. This allows individuals and businesses to easily find and link to postings or listings that are important to them.

Ad Forwarding: Users may, with the click of a button forward interesting postings to someone else or even to their own e-mail address.

Review: All user information, including postings may be reviewed anytime from any internet connection. Professionals may withdraw their ads, modify or make any changed in the description of their listings. They can also view their expired postings and renew or remove ads as needed.

Privacy: Users do not have to make their e-mail public when they register. They may enter a username of their choice and this will be reflected in all their activities on the site. This is part of our efforts to deter potential scammers.

Communication : We consider this is a very crucial part of the site features. Users should communicate appropriately with others and in some cases further information may be required by both parties from each other. This could be done without compromising your privacy. Users can configure and use our features and do not have to expose their e-mails to the public. Since communications between the professional and potential clients may be vital to reaching any arrangements, we encourage our advertisers not to ignore messages to them from our visitors.

Personal Message Center: Our communication Center allows you to communicate either openly, semi-privately or privately with other users. You may choose to exposes your email address to other users by including it in your posting. Another option is to keep it private and receive notifications of messages in your inbox. Reply to the messages may be sent through the messaging system if you wish. You may also configure your account so that you and other users will have to login to receive and reply to all communications, thereby keeping your email address completely private.

Multiple Listing: Professionals may place their ads in their specific category of practice or service, or in more than one categories.

Signs & Flyers: Professionals have access to a printable Signs and flyers feature that allows them to print out a sign or flyer for each of their postings. Form fields are pre-populated with the posting's data for quick printing.

Hit Counter: Every posting placed in the website has a hit counter indicating the number of times that the listing has been viewed by our site visitors.

Listing Duration: Lawyards.com gives professionals the option of choosing how long you want your posting to stay active. A reminder is always sent out a few days prior to the expiration of the posting reminding the listing user of the imminent expiration and giving him or her the option to keep the ad active or take no action and let it expire,

Automatic Notification: This page notifies registered user of any messages from another user waiting for them in their site mail box. This function also notifies Professionals of an impending posting that is about to expire.

Listing Reference: Lawyards.com assigns a unique posting number to each posting. This allows clients to search by ad number and jump straight to a posting if they have knowledge of the ad number.

Links: Lawyards.com has some useful automatically displayed links that enhance communications between users and professionals while ensuring security of information. They include:

» Professional's Other Ads: This link found on the posting display page facilitates a link to other postings placed on the site by the same professional.
» Add to favorite: This link found on the posting display page enables a user to add any posting to his or her "my favorite" page. In other words, creating a watch list, making it straightforward for the user to come back and view the posting again before it expires without having to search for it.
» Tell-A-Friend: This link found on the posting display page allows user to fill out a form to recommend the posting to a friend.
» Contact Professional: The visitor clicks this link to contact the listing professional through the Lawyards.com messaging system.

Other invaluable tools include a law directory, our human-edited law links directory; law jobs; legal community, including law forums, service swap, etc; and case law and code finder. There are also easy-to-use features that help in the match-up of professionals and clients.

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