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Two Legal Websites Win Webby Awards

Posted May 5, 2009 10:52 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

The Webby Awards, known as the Oscars of the Internet, honored some high- profile celebrities last night, but some legal websites also took home honors in the competition.

Comedian Jimmy Fallon won “person of the year” for posting his act before going on late-night TV with his talk show, Reuters reports. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails was honored as artist of the year for making his 2008 album available for free on the band’s website.

Winner of a Webby award in the legal category was WomensLaw.org, a website dedicated to helping victims of domestic abuse. WomensLaw.org has tips on how to safely leave an abuser, information on preparing for court, and advice on how to find a lawyer. It is funded by private donations and grants.

GetLegal.com won the People’s Voice Award, based on popular voting, in the legal category. The website offers a lawyer directory and original articles. A press release says the website’s Legal Information Center, developed in conjunction with Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, is the heart of the website. It offers both written content and video that explains basic legal principles relating to a variety of legal topics, including crime, personal injury, divorce and immigration.

The Webby Awards honor excellence on the Internet and are administered by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Last year, ABAJournal.com won the People’s Voice Award in the legal category, but it wasn’t in the running this year. ABAJournal.com was, however, recognized as a 2009 Honoree.

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First to Comment (JAG CALWP)
May 6, 2009 1:17 PM CST

Sorry I could not resist.

WomensLaw.org: I feel that it is unfortunate that it needs ti dedicate its efforts towards domestic violence.

There are plenty of women’s issues other than DV that can stand attention.
Best example of stopping a specific dom vio was before battered spouse became an affirmative defense in Ohio.

The guy had beat spouse around c. 15 years. Then he chose to star on his step-daughter. HUGE ERROR and GROSS abuse of discretion.

BeatEE shot BeatOR dead with his own gun. No protective order, no trial, no appeal—*BANG*! Darwin. She was the fittest. She survived.

Of course that was way back when PA charged Murder 1 (today might be voluntary manslaughter).

At trial, jury hung, I’m uncertain, but it may have been as high as 11-1 for acquittal.

Personally, I don’t know what took her so long, and I’m a non-violent wimpy pussycat. Men don’t pick on 600 lb gorillas or 1200 lb polar bears. Why pick on women and children.

Anyhoo, she could not stand emotional trauma of a second trial and plead to involuntary manslaughter.

PENALTY: Five years NON reporting probation.

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GL, Cornell, ABA (JAG CALWP)
May 6, 2009 1:29 PM CST

GetLegal.com, Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, ABAJournal.com
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I speculate that GetLegal is more towards folks asking questions and getting answers v. NEWS on ABA.

Both are important. I’ve not tried GL, but am familiar with Cornell’s LII.

I plead guilty to being more than familiar with ABAJournal.com - to me it’s my favorite site.

It would be nice were ABA IT to tweak its software so that:

(1) Users could edit or delete a post within several minutes;

(2) User X could privately email to user Y via ABA’s software. X and Y, if they chose, could exhange emails.

I have my own “special” address, for love/hate mail, JADOF@Safe-mail.net which has blocking paramaters out of this world (at least out of this hemisphere).

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