We get a lot of questions from our colleagues – and some prospective clients – about why it is we get so much design work from the legal community. I thought it would be interesting to address here what it is like designing websites for lawyers, and why we enjoy it so much.

Lawyers are good people with a bad PR problem.

If you’ve ever been misunderstood and had people think they know you from just a tiny piece of information about you, you get this one. Over the course of my career, I’ve worked in 3 law firms – as an assistant and paralegal – from the gigantic to the boutique – and there’s no better way to understand that lawyers are people, too (a shocker for some), than working shoulder-to-shoulder with them. [click to continue…]

   

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Client Spotlight – Richard S. Feinsilver, Esq.

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feinblog1

Back in ’09, (read that with an old-timey squeaky voice), we did two satellite website designs for Rich Feinsilver, a bankruptcy and real estate lawyer in Long Island, New York. They were pretty simple projects with a lot of context-sensitive video integration. When Rich got ready to revamp his flagship site, Feinlawyer.com, he came back [...]

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Nikon D700 Camera Body for Sale

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Nikon D700 body for sale

Here in the Rowboat, we’re focusing 1000% on our website design services now, and not so much on photography. (What do you have left over after 1000% anyway?) So – we have this gorgeous,very lightly used, 16-month old camera body holding down wireframe drawings, which is NOT what it was meant to do. It wants [...]

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Do you recognize yourself?

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Every couple of months, this one makes the rounds on Twitter, and it’s so good I just had to share here. How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell

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WishList Membership Plug-In for WordPress – Unadvertised SALE!

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Date: March 12, 2010 I just got an email from WishList about an unadvertised promotion they’re doing. I’ve implemented this membership management plug-in for 3 clients so far, and they all love its power and flexibility. A full review is on that list of things to do…now WHERE did I put that list? Anyway, I [...]

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Client Spotlight: Florida Bankruptcy Lawyer

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Florida Bankruptcy Lawyer Lewis Roberts

When Florida bankruptcy lawyer Lewis Roberts, who serves Volusia and Flagler counties along Florida’s Atlantic coast, got tired of paying for expensive long-term SEO/hosting contracts and ready for real results, he contacted Rowboat Media for a new Thesis-based custom website design. We were happy to liberate him and his bank account. Rather than using stock [...]

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SEO Copywriting Demystified: Scribe SEO Plug-In Review

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Scribe SEO - Confused about copywriting?

If you’re like me, you read a lot about search engine optimization. You go to bed with terms like keyword density, backlinks, h1 tags, etc., dancing in your head. And you’re always wondering if you did it right, if you did enough, or if there’s some magic formula everyone else knows and you’re forever going [...]

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Client Spotlight: TriBeCa Therapy

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TriBeCa Therapy - New York - Matt Lundquist

New York City therapist Matt Lundquist contacted us to develop a Thesis website for his TriBeCa practice that reflected who he was and his particular approach to therapy. His tagline, “creative therapy for creative people,” let us know that he wouldn’t want the typical psychotherapist website, or, as he so colorfully put it, “I don’t [...]

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Client Spotlight: Senior Alert Network LLC

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This design, launched in December 2009, was an interesting project for Rowboat Media. We were called upon by this client to update their 90′s-looking direct-sales website for Medical Home Alert, and take it from a static HTML site to Thesis on WordPress. As the client had seen some slippage in Google rankings over time (from [...]

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