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Avvo to disrupt Martindale-Hubbell's ratings system

By Kevin OKeefe

That's the word from an article in Internet Law and Strategy running at law.com this weekend. From the author, Joseph Campos, Chair of the Corporate/Securities Law Group at Stanislaw Ashbaugh in Seattle: Since 1868, Martindale-Hubbell has provided the largest library of lawyer and law firm profiles and ratings. Law firms across the country reflexively and dutifully subscribe to the company's hardbound volumes, placing them prominently in their libraries, confident they have taken the most obvious step to ensure clients looking for legal representation will find them. Just as important to such firms is Martindale-Hubbell's peer review and rating system, touted by the company as an objective measure of a lawyer's ethics and abilities. Receiving a peer review rating is a singularly egocentric moment for a lawyer, suggesting he or she had 'arrived' in a professional sense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).