What a difference a year makes. You wouldn't know it by looking at the site - except for one difference (we'll get to that in a minute), the home page is identical to last year's - but there's a lot to like about the improved Debevoise & Plimpton site. What is most impressive is the content - as of this writing, 98 articles were available on the site. All articles are dated (giving the reader the information before deciding to download the article), and titles and authors are clearly identified. Though the chronological organization makes it hard to find all I.P. articles (giving visitors the option of chronological vs. topical would be nice), the articles are still easy to browse. Those that we looked at were informative, not overly long, and sufficiently informative that clients and prospective clients alike will find something to like. Now for the less-than-good stuff: leaving contact information out of the attorney bios is a big no-no: if someone reads the page, likes what they see, shouldn't they be able to get in touch with that attorney? Make it simpler, not more difficult, for users to do what they want. Finding contact info for each city requires clicking on each city - given that each city would require only five or six lines of information, we think putting it all on one page would be more useful (eliminate as many unnecessary clicks as possible). The site doesn't have an obvious design theme - graphics are used sparingly and there's little to set the site apart from many others. By placing the omnipresent navigation bar at the bottom of the page, they do manage to make navigation easy without sacrificing too much screen space. The one change from last year's home page? The search engine was removed from the home page and placed one level deeper - an odd decision, since we think placing a search box on the home page is an excellent way of letting people find what they're looking for quickly.