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LegalMatch Halloween Contest 2016

Another successful Halloween contest at LegalMatch! Thanks to everyone who participated.

Here are our winners…

1^st place: Callie Savage, Reno Office as Ursula

2^nd place: Summer Lawson & Beck Pemberton, Reno Office as Agent Fox and Agent Scully

3^rd place: Suzy Norgaard, SF Office as a Storm Cloud

To everyone else who dressed up and participated, thank you and great job!

LegalMatch Reviews

LegalMatch Reviews

Meet LegalMatch - Sarah K. Lee

Sarah K. Lee obtained her bachelors from The George Washington University, double majoring in political science and psychology. She went on to work in real estate compliance law in Washington, D.C. for several years before returning to school to obtain her J.D. from the University Of San Francisco School Of Law. During her time in law school, Sarah served as a law clerk at various firms focusing on civil rights, family law and personal injury.

Since joining LegalMatch, Sarah contributes to the LegalMatch law blog while working as a compliance analyst at Funding Circle.

In her free time, she enjoys cooking, reading sci-fi books, biking, pugs and discovering new restaurants.

Digital Marketing Manager Wanted!

Are you passionate about internet marketing? Do you dream in search engine algorithms? Follow the latest social media trends? Then we want you on our team!

If you're interested, please send a cover letter, resume, and links to relevant social profiles to: [email protected].

For more information, visit our website:

www.legalmatch.com/company/jobs.html#Digital

Why LegalMatch Works for Me - Attorney Review

"I have been a subscriber to LegalMatch for at least the past five years, and from my experience this is the best service available to connect potential clients and attorneys." - John A. Smitten, Esq.

John Smitten is a LegalMatch member attorney based in the Clearwater, Florida area. Currently practicing marital and family law, he has found success consistently obtaining leads from LegalMatch. For his full review on our attorney marketing services, check out LegalMatch - Why It Works for Me.

Law Blog Provides Insights to Police Misconduct Cases

The LegalMatch Law Blog covers a wide range of legal, social, and political issues. In addition to highlighting important stories that impact the legal sphere, the blog also offers opinions and insightful legal commentary. 

Over the past few months, the law blog has published a number of articles relating to the recent instances of police misconduct. This is an important topic for all Americans, since we all can expect to have interactions with the local police at some time in our lives. This topic is especially important for minority groups, since it has been revealed that the police in certain communities have engaged in practices that are objectively racially biased.

Our top articles relating to police misconduct include: 

• Body Cameras on Cops: Who Controls the Footage?

• Walter Scott's Death Should Bring Progress and a Reminder of the Importance of Filming Police Misconduct

• San Francisco's Police Texting Scandal Leads to Extensive Investigation

• New Mexico Passes a Civil Forfeiture Law

• Six Officers Charged in the Murder of Freddie Gray

Customer Review

As the content manager for LegalMatch, I occasionally receive feedback from casual readers or from clients who have just posted their legal case to our site. I generally receive two types of feedback: 1) a request for more information or for an edit concerning one of our law library articles, or 2) a request to contribute content to our blogs. But every so often I receive a different type of feedback: someone praising our site for the success they had finding an attorney.

Today, that's exactly what I found when I opened an unexpected message in my email inbox. The message was from a LegalMatch user named Chris; and he had this to say about his experience:

"LegalMatch connected me with an attorney named Chad A. for a recent legal matter I was involved in.  Chad turned out to be fair with his fees and a very responsive attorney. He would always get back to me on the same day regarding correspondence and he had success bringing my case to a satisfactory conclusion. Thank you to LegalMatch and to Chad A. I just want you to know I appreciate all that LegalMatch has done for me."

Many similar reviews from happy customers can be found on our San Francisco Yelp page and our new Austin Yelp page.

Written by Peter Clarke, LegalMatch Content Manager

LegalMatch's Chas Blackford Shares Tips on Conserving Water with the NY Times

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown announced mandatory cuts to water use across California. Now, all Californians are not only encouraged, but required to cut back. In a recent New York Times, article, LegalMatch's own Chas Blackford was interviewed. For example, Chas explains how he "recently installed a $500 gray-water system that lets him use water from the laundry machine on the drought-resistant plants in his yard."

Read to full story to check out Chas' insightful tips for water conservation.

LegalMatch Farewell to Ryan Courtwright

A moment of silence was observed today when San Francisco
socialite and LegalMatch employee Ryan Courtwright stated that he will be leaving us August 1st.  Parting with his beloved California shores to attend school this Fall, Ryan is pursuing his Master’s Degree in Space Agriculture, or English maybe.

He first started at LegalMatch two years ago as a cubicle-dwelling legal intern and climbed the ranks to Copywriter Extraordinaire making quite a splash in the legal blog and newsletter scene in the United States and Germany. He's just like the Hoff and also likes a good cheeseburger. Don’t worry folks, he’ll still be doing graphics for us and writing our amazing Newsletters.

Ken LaMance, his boss and yogi, was quoted: “Ryan has so much machismo that he jump-started my electric car by winking at it once, seriously.” Lisa, a creature handler and employee at LegalMatch, hurtfully whimpered that “the office will
 FINALLY stop smelling like cheap Jack in the Box tacos and spilt Dr. Pepper. He chews with his mouth open.”

Before driving off into the sunset with his gorgeous chef-girlfriend Samantha, Ryan will be awarded with LegalMatch’s highest honor: The Golden Scales which come with a NEW Apple iPad. Okay, I'll admit he gave me $5 to say that. It'd be cool though, right? 

Note: LegalMatch HR Manager Niesha Sweet will be available for any employees who would like to talk about his departure or get counseling. We are all deeply moved by the loss. 

LegalMatch 1st Annual Breakfast Bash!

Fridays can be tough. Sure, LegalMatchers love coming into work but every once in a while we need a little something extra. Even Mary Poppins, queen of babysitters and nannies alike, supports a "spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down." In this case the medicine would be Friday morning. And the sugar? Panera breakfast sandwiches!

According to Mr. Breakfast and his friends with fancy degrees, "eating breakfast has an advantageous effect on late-morning mood, satiety and cognitive performance." I'm not sure about all that fact mumbo-jumbo but do know how delicious those puppies taste. I don't mean actual puppies. That didn't go over so well last time.