| The home page takes too long to load, the frames presentation is poor, and too many font styles are used. The internal banner advertisement touting the firm's summer program is a clever idea. And here's a helpful tip. The first link on your home page should never ever be a link to the firm's history. Check your log files. We're betting your users just don't care. If you've got a compelling story to tell, tell it, but a link to "firm history" is not a story. Reading this firm's home page, we don't get what they stand for. A quick reading of book "The Discipline of Market Leaders" would suggest that the firm should identify its strength and focus on that. Here, the firm highlights speed, quality, cost efficiently, and other attributes. Those are all nice, but what does a firm stand for that focuses on all of them? If you can get past the extremely poor layout and font selection on the "Attorneys" page, you'll see one of the best attorney search interfaces we've seen. Note the ability to search multiple fields and the option to select "AND" or "OR" for your search. The summary page is excellent. It contains just some of the most popular fields (name, title, location, practice area, phone, e-mail), and the profiles themselves contain all the information you'd want. We'll penalize the firm (again) for very poor layout here, but not for content. Articles are under "News & Events" (not where we'd look for them), and 1999 articles were "not yet available." Finally, the search page was 404. This site is a good candidate for a redesign. |