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Find A Lawyer

Use this area to find a law office by AREA OF LAW, LAWYER OR LAW FIRM NAME, CITY, STATE and COUNTRY. You are required to enter either an Area of Law, Name, City or State.

To search for a specific lawyer or firm by NAME, simply enter the name in the text box and hit "GO."

To search by area of law, you can either type the area or legal issue into the search box or select from a list of common practice areas by clicking the "choose from a list" above the search box.

Choosing from a list allows you to select up to nine areas of law for searching. Searching multiple areas of law will return lawyers who practice in all the areas of law you selected.

Type in an Area of Law of Lawyer or Firm Name or Select Area of Law (Optional)
Enter your legal term or select from a list.

If you know the name of the lawyer or law firm you are looking for, you can enter it here.

If you are unsure of the area of law and would like to browse a list of the most common areas, you can click the link to the right of the search box and select up to nine areas.

Example: Entering or Selecting Family Law will provide a list of firms that might deal with one or more of the following areas:

  • Family Law
  • Adoptions
  • Child Custody
  • Child Support
  • Divorce
  • Domestic Violence
  • Visitation Rights

Enter CITY (Optional)

Narrow your search by entering the CITY where you wish to locate a law office.

Select STATE (Optional)

Select a STATE from the drop-down menu.

GO

After determining your desired criteria, select "GO" or hit the enter key. The system displays a list of the lawyers and firms that match your criteria. You may then browse through those listings, narrow your search using the criteria on the left of the results page or edit your search and resubmit it.

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Search Site

Located in the upper right hand corner throughout the site is the Site Search area. Using this search box will search all areas of lawyers.com, including law and law firm listings, articles, tips, Ask A Lawyer archives, blogs, message boards and more. Enter a term, for example "tort," and select SEARCH. Browse the list of matching lawyers, articles, blogs, message board responses, etc. You can also choose from the drop down to search a specific area of the site

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Legal Dictionary Help

Find the definition of an unfamiliar legal term from the list of 10,000 words in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, Copyright 2000.

Type in a TERM and select the SEARCH button to view its definition or see related terms. Not all diacritical marks display properly on the web so we've provided the Pronunciation Key at the bottom of the results screen. You can check the key to map the characters to get the pronunciations.

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General Help

Martindale-Hubbell has provided a variety of features in lawyers.com that will educate you on various legal matters. Whether you are just curious about the law or you need to hire a lawyer immediately, you can be confident that lawyers.com will inform you about the legal resources that are available.

Navigation throughout the site is available at the top of each page. Each button represents a main section of the lawyers.com site. Once in a specific section, using the side navigation buttons will toggle between areas within that section.

There are five main sections of lawyers.com: Find A Lawyer, Understand Your Legal Issues, Discuss Your Legal Issue, Legal Help and Resources and Law Blog. Here are general descriptions of the main site sections and their sub-sections:

Find a Lawyer

Use this section to search our comprehensive database of over 1 million attorneys and law firms. Here, you can use our simple search, Browse for a Lawyer by Geography, Browse for a Lawyer by Area of Law, or connect with multiple attorneys at once using the Martindale-Hubbell AttorneyMatch service.

Understand Your Legal Issue

The Understand Your Legal Issue are of Lawyers.com brings together valuable content about legal issues and is organized by both area of law and life event. You can also access information pertinent to your specific state. Information included in this section includes articles, checklists, a comprehensive legal dictionary and access to legal issues currently in the news.

Discuss Your Legal Issue

Meet, interact and network with others on a variety of legal topics in the Discuss Your Legal Issue section. Here, you can review Blogs written by lawyers about their areas of expertise, post or reply to a question in our message boards, or participate in a live chat hosted by a member of our lawyer panel. This is a great area to get involved and gain advise from lawyers and other people like you.

Legal Help & Resources

The Legal Help & Resources section contains access to information about our court system, information specific to a given state, access to the U.S. Constitution and Federal Government Agencies, and access to your states Attorney General. In addition to this information, you can access Do-It-Yourself legal forms through our Legal Document Service powered by RocketLawyer by clicking Legal Forms in the left hand navigation area.

Law Blogs Read the latest Law Blog posts from lawyers across the country on a wide range of topics including Immigration, Personal Injury, Estate Planning and more in our Law Blog section. Back to top

Community: Message Board and Chat Registration

Registration

Your Profile

Your profile is completely under your control: you can update all or a specific piece of your profile at any time. Profiles include the following required information:

Email address: To protect your identity, our programming automatically hides your email address when you post messages to the message boards. Should you wish others to know how to contact you directly, "uncheck" the related box. This email address is also the address we'll use for private correspondence, such as resetting a forgotten password.

Display Name: This name is unique and visible to the general public when you post a message or participate in a chat. If you change your display name, the change will be reflected in all your previous postings as well as any new messages. If a name you wish to select is already in use, consider adding numbers to create a unique name.

User Name: You'll use this name with your password selection to login to the Web site. This name is not "case-sensitive" (recognized only when you use exact capitals or punctuation) or displayed anywhere on the Web site.

Password: Along with your user name, your password is required to complete login. Passwords are case- sensitive.

Zip Code: Providing your zip code allows us to know which geographic areas have a large (or smaller) Internet usage. This information helps us to prioritize specific areas where we want to provide more helpful legal resources.

Optional Information:

City: If you'd like to tell us where you're located, feel free to do so.

Profile: A completed profile is accessible through your display name, listed with every message submitted to the site. Profiles are "not" available until a message board posting has been submitted. Your profile should always contain your state location as well as:

  • Who you are. If you prefer, you need not mention your name; just give us a general description of your situation (for example: "injured worker struggling with workers' comp system for last three years"). Please do not include your full name and contact information unless you wish it to be available to the general public.
  • If you're a lawyer or other professional, or have something else to offer, we've provided the profile for your contact information, including email, Web site address and so forth. General advertising messages are not allowed as postings to our message boards.
  • How you got involved on the Internet
  • Anything else you may want to tell a new acquaintance

Activating Your Account

After successfully completing registration, an activation email will be sent to the email address registered to your account. The email will contain a link to a web page where you will be asked to insert your User Name, password and the unique activation code included in the email. Upon submission of this information, you will be logged into the site and may proceed to submit a message or join a chat.

Editing Your Profile

  • Complete login
  • Select "Edit your Profile" to display your current profile
  • Make the changes you desire
  • Click the "Save" button located at the bottom

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Community: Posting A Message To A Message Board

Select the message board which is the closest match to your issue. We ask that you select only one message board to post your message to instead of submitting the same message on multiple boards. This respects the time volunteers donate to the Web site when reviewing and replying to messages.

  • Click on "Post a Message", located at the top and bottom of a specific message board, to submit a new message, or click on "Reply to Message", found below the text in the bottom right corner, when viewing the content of a message.
  • Complete login if you've not already done so
  • On the message submission page, insert:
    • A descriptive title if a new message or update the title of a response
    • Your message
    • An icon to reflect your message if you wish
    • Preview your message to see how it will look once it's posted to the message board, and, if necessary, make any corrections
  • Submit your message or
  • Skip the preview and submit your message directly to the message board

NOTE: Once your message has been submitted, you cannot edit or delete it. Be sure it says what you want before submitting it.

Take a moment to review the complete listing of our posting rules.

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Community: Live Chats

Chat Schedule and Access

Access the list of scheduled chats; chat times are "Eastern Time" with all events concluding 60 minutes from the listed start time

Entrance to a chat is allowed one hour prior to the scheduled start time of the event although questions may be submitted up to 5 days prior to the event.

Note: It may take a moment or two to load the chat program when accessing.

Pre-Submit Questions

You are permitted to submit a question up to 5 days prior to the start of a chat event. We'll make every attempt to address as many questions as possible during the chat event but can't guarantee all questions will be addressed. Please limit your question to a single concise submission of 1,500 characters or less.

Chat Archives

All chats transcripts are archived and available at the site 24 hours after the event.

Access the complete Chat Help page.

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