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Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP
http://swidlaw.com
Content: 5Presentation: 10Experience: 2Total: 17
Content: CPresentation: AExperience: FTotal: C

Here's a new twist. The URL listed in Martindale-Hubbell is "http://swidlaw.com," but that URL does not work. The correct URL is "http://www.swidlaw.com." A better idea would be to have both URLs work, and this takes only a minute to configure your server's DNS to do this. We like the presentation on the home page, which features excellent graphics and very good use of white space. Navigation, however, was poor. We had to hunt for attorney profiles, and we dislike hunting for information. We suspect other users will feel the same way. Attorney profiles are listed under "Quick Guide." Search output is poor. Rather than display summary information such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers on the search results page, this information is displayed (via an extra click) in a pop-up window. We find this user interface to be clumsy at best. Unless we counted wrong, there was one article under "Publications" with the notation "Watch this space for current articles by and about our lawyers." Hmm. A section with the intriguing title "Capitol Meets Capital" contained only a short blurb about the 1998 merger of Swidler & Berlin and New York-based Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman LLP. We wonder who the target audience is for this page. The thing that saves this site is its recruiting section, which is by far the best in the business. Information is presented in a PowerPoint-like, friendly, logical series of pages. It includes everything you'd expect to find (but don't ) in the main site. If were were in charge of this site, we'd make the recruiting site THE website. If our review of this site were a book, it would be called "A Tale of Two Websites."


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