Fourteen years ago this week, a federal judge in Seattle dismissed the class action complaint filed by two lawyers seeking to shut down the lawyer-rating site Avvo, which had launched five months earlier.
While calling the rating of attorneys “ludicrous,” U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik nevertheless ruled that the opinions expressed…
In 2018, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO until he sold it earlier that year to web behemoth Internet Brands. Soon after, he joined us here on LawNext…
Cloud law practice management company Clio is today announcing a $250 million Series D funding — one of the largest investments ever for a legal technology company and the largest ever for a Canadian company.
Clio is also announcing that Mark Britton, who founded Avvo in 2006 and sold it last year to…
In July, six months after acquiring Avvo, Internet Brands said it was shutting down Avvo Legal Services, the controversial program that provided fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys and that had raised the ire of many an ethics regulator.
Now a new site is enabling attorneys to offer a…
Internet Brands, the company that acquired Avvo in January and that already owned several legal sites including Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com, will announce tomorrow that it is rebranding its group of legal sites under the umbrella and Martindale-Avvo, I’ve been told by two people who work for the company.
Internet Brands is one of…
Earlier this year, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO, after selling it to web behemoth Internet Brands. Explaining his departure in a memo to his staff, he wrote, “It’s time for me to go.”
In the latest episode of LawNext, Britton reflects on his 12 years…
Legal directory Avvo is shutting down its controversial Avvo Legal Services, a service that provides fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys.
Internet Brands, the company that acquired Avvo last January, has decided that the service does not align with its business and focus, according to a letter sent by B.…
Yesterday, I reported that Mark Britton, founder and CEO of Avvo, is leaving the company in the wake of its acquisition in January by Internet Brands. Following is the email he sent to Avvo staff informing them of this news.
…Dear Team:
Many of you have been asking about what’s happening with
Mark Britton
Mark Britton, the 51-year-old lawyer and entrepreneur who founded the often-controversial legal marketplace and lawyer-rating site Avvo in 2007 and served as its CEO ever since, is leaving the company.
In January, Avvo was acquired by Internet Brands, a web behemoth that already owned a portfolio of legal sites…
As I blogged a little while ago, legal directory site Avvo has been acquired by Internet Brands, a company that is one of the world’s largest operators of websites that serve targeted vertical markets and that already owns a variety of legal websites, including Nolo, Lawyers.com, Martindale-Hubbell, Total Attorneys, and others.
Mark…
Legal directory site Avvo has been acquired by Internet Brands, it was announced this morning. Internet Brands already owns legal sites Nolo, Martindale-Hubbell, Ngage and Total Attorneys.
[See also my follow-up interview with CEO Mark Britton.]
I am at a conference and will follow up with more details when…
The listing that gave rise to the lawsuit.
A federal court has dismissed a putative class action against Avvo under the Illinois Right of Publicity Act, ruling that Avvo’s lawyer listings are comparable to the editorial content in Sports Illustrated and deserving of the same First Amendment protection. This is the second time…
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