lawyrs.net: A New Online Community for Lawyers
Introduce yourself, make contacts, network, and keep in touch with other “lawyrs” from around the worldBy V. Wish
Chances are, if you’re reading this, you already know: online communities and user-driven “Web 2.0” websites now dominate the Internet. The common urge to express oneself, share, and interact with other people has made sites like Myspace, YouTube, Flickr, Xing, LinkedIn, and Facebook some of the most-visited sites on the Web.
But what has been missing is an online community just for lawyers - a place where lawyers from anywhere in world can present themselves, network, share information, build contacts, discuss, form groups, and have some fun.
A social community for lawyers
A new online community hopes to fill this void. After several months of development and private beta testing, lawyrs.net has been officially launched. Lawyers, law students, and anybody with a serious interest in law are invited to join the community.
Those who are new to lawyrs.net will find that there's already an active and growing community of users – known as “lawyrs” – from more than 60 countries who have created user profiles, formed groups, and started building international contacts.
The design of lawyrs.net was kept simple, but the website’s functionality is comparable to some of the world’s largest networking websites. Some may even find lawyrs.net easier to use than mainstream social communities.
Similar to other social networks, “lawyrs” use their real names, upload pictures, and create profiles containing information (current and previous jobs, law schools, areas of practice, publications, and personal interests). These profiles form the basis of networking.
Unique, practical tools
But there are also many features that are unique to lawyrs.net, and designed specifically for lawyers. For example, the “Law Firms” listings allow users to search an ever-growing database of law firms and their global branches. You can also search for colleagues by practice area. So, not only is it easy to find other lawyers, it’s just as easy to make contact with them – just send a personal message with your lawyrs.net account.
What else can you do? Lawyrs can keep up with all the latest news and gossip in the “Law News” section. Here, community members post and vote on the law-related news they consider the most important, informative, or funniest. Community members can also add any law-related articles and books they have written to the searchable “Publications” list, where other interested users can easily find it.
Expansion and improvements to the functionality of lawyrs.net are planned for the coming months, all with the aim of giving lawyers even more ways to meet, connect, and interact with each other.
Calling all LL.M.s
LLM GUIDE users will already know that user-driven websites can be an indispensable resource. If you’ve ever had a specific question about an LL.M. program or the application process, chances are that you can find the answer somewhere on the discussion board.
Now LLM GUIDE users can tap into another vast pool of expertise, knowledge, and experience. As a partner of the lawyrs.net, LLM GUIDE actively supports its development, and encourages interested students, alumni, and future students to join one of the many LL.M.-related groups.
In fact, you can now join lawyrs.net directly from LLM GUIDE, without the need for an invitation. Some law school pages in the LLM GUIDE directory, such as NYU and Georgetown, already have direct links to “Class of 2009” groups.
In a nutshell, lawyrs.net was designed to be a simple, functional community where lawyers from around the world - who have a lot in common and a lot to share - can come together. It’s the kind of law-focused community that has long been missing on the Internet.
We hope you to see you soon over at lawyrs.net !
To learn more about what you can do at lawyrs.net, take a tour here.
Comments
I'm happy to join with this lawyers.net. I'm a final year law student. Hope that I'll be able to find pleasent contacts from this site.
I am Esther Gumboh aged 24 and from Malawi.I am glad I have found this community of learned friends. I have just finished my first degree and hope to get information on LLM opportunities and scholarships. I really want to further my studies specialising in Human Rights.
Email; kitsepile1@yahoo.com
its really a fatastic plan.
thanx
I am keen to join such kind of group in this competitive field.
I forgot to mention that i m a 2nd year law student from INDIA.
Fabulous
Really good idea
I'm happy to join with this lawyers.net. I just completed my LLB and I belong to Pakitan. Hope that I'll be able to find pleasent contacts from this site. I am glad I have found this community of learned friends. Hope to get information on LLM opportunities and scholarships. I really want to further my studies. (arkhan7370@yahoo.com)
It's really very appriciatable that there is a place where some lawyers can chat with eahc other.I am student of law in Unversity college Dublin,Irelan
If some one want to chat then dopnt hesitate and leave your msg on tauqeer.imperial@gmail.com
I am excited about this unique site that is dedicated to lawyers.
I am a lawyer, nice to see this opportunity of worldwide access within lawyers, hopefull for the success.
I am a freshman graduate from indonesia, nice to join the worldwide access within all lawyers in the world. we can share our knowledges and experiences for our sake. hopefully this site will unity us into the success area. hope u all will give me much informations about LLM or Master Degree in good university in the world. You can contact me through my email.
Thank you.
See u.
i'm young lawyer,
from georgia
It's nice to be the part of global lawyers fraternity
I am excited its a really good idea
its nice to find that there is a forum at which lawyers from all over the world can fraternise, in spite of their tight schedule. please keep it up!
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iTS GOOD TO BE A PART OF LEGAL FRATERNITY AROUND THE WORLD