LegalMatch Life

Happy After-Hours at Louie's Bar and Grill.

LegalMatch’s San Francisco branch left work early last week to take in the July sun and share some suds over at Louie’s, the pub next door.

From 4:30 onward, marketers, salespeople, lawyers, and executives mingled in Louie’s long, red-brick space, enjoying conversations that skipped the cubicles and conference tables and took place face-to-face.  Some played dice games and others just lounged in the booths, but the mood was lively and spirited.

Check out our photo gallery for snapshots of the event, and enjoy the samples below!

 

 

LegalMatch Closed for Memorial Day.

LegalMatch offices will be closed this Monday the 26th in remembrance of all those who have given their lives to protect our great nation. We encourage everyone to take this day to volunteer or contribute to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, which provides medical care and other vital services to U.S. veterans.

We wish you a wonderful Memorial Day, and will be back at our desks on Tuesday.

LegalMatch Moves to San Francisco’s Financial District.

The past week was a maelstrom of packing tape, loose cables, and heavy lifting as LegalMatch prepared to move to its new home at 49 Stevenson.

After five years at 642 Harrison, employees said good-bye to the dilapidated carpeting, packed up their pens and post-its, and left work at 2PM for an early weekend. They arrived on Monday at their new building, excited to start fresh in a new environment.

The new building is gorgeous—a splinter of glass and steel tucked into Stevenson’s shady streetscape. The entryway’s marble gleams underfoot and the elevators speed silently up to our 11th floor hub. You can take your coffee in the kitchen where floor-to-ceiling windows look out over the sprawl of San Francisco’s Financial District, or ride down to the lobby and stop next door for fish, chips, and a pint at Louie’s Bar & Grill.

We’ll be spending the next week clearing the last bits of move-related debris, but our team is quickly settling into their new home.

Check out some photos of our new office below!

More on the "Valentine's Effect."

The Valentine Effect was further in evidence when a new keyword forecast search term tracking tool at Microsoft was invoked for the search term "divorce. If we check this screenshot of the Adlab interface results, we can see the definite spike in searches for the term divorce that occurs in February.

Here is a text breakdown of the search requests with additional data on gender and age of the searchers.

04 - 2006 171292
05 - 2006 180694
06 - 2006 166155
07 - 2006 164688
08 - 2006 161195
09 - 2006 186456
10 - 2006 177559
11 - 2006 142851
12 - 2006 133863
01 - 2007 166139
02 - 2007 208532
03 - 2007 197766
Age <18 (9.8%) 20%
Age 18-24 (26.8%) 20%
Age 25-34 (27.2%) 20%
Age 35-49 (23%) 20%
Age 50+ (13.2%) 20%
Male 50%
Female 50%

Ken LaMance's "Valentine's Effect" Makes News.

Again LegalMatch's Ken LaMance makes news. Ken, in conjunction with Cheryl Smith of the marketing department at LegalMatch.com have been closely monitoring the so called Valentine's Effect, first observed here at LegalMatch in 2006. The Valentine's Effect is the tendendency for legal case presentations to the LegalMatch online client/attorney matching system to show a spike cases in the weeks leading up to and following Valentine's Day.

As was published last year in a Forbes magazine article, this little understoood effect has once again been made newsworthy with articles appearing in a number of online and print publications, including The Daily Breeze, NJ.com, Lexington-Herald, and The Meter.