Released on = June 1, 2006, 6:25 pm

Press Release Author = Lawbby.com

Industry = Law

Press Release Summary = Lawbby.com, a social networking website for lawyers and
legal professionals, has begun to fulfill its goal of building an online community
where lawyers and legal professionals can go for business, leisure or both. Recent
growth has been fueled by improvements made to the site in response to suggestions
made by site members and legal bloggers. There is no fee to join Lawbby.com, and
setting up a profile takes only a few minutes.

Press Release Body = Hilliard, Ohio June 1, 2006-Lawbby.com, a social networking
site for lawyers and legal professionals, has begun to fulfill its goal of building
an online community where lawyers and legal professionals can go for business,
leisure or both. Although the site was launched only a month ago, the pace of
membership growth is picking up: during May, the site's membership grew an average
of 7% per day.

While lawyers who have been practicing for some time may feel more comfortable with
online communities built around older technologies (such as listserves, message
boards, forums and newsgroups), those technologies have inherent limitations.
Lawbby.com, like the widely-known MySpace.com, addresses these limitations by
allowing members to publish their own blogs, create their own discussion groups and
quickly build up a network of friends and contacts. Lawbby.com will also be
sponsoring offline events where "Lawbbyers" can meet and mingle.

Chris Rempel, Lawbby.com's webmaster, says that the site's growth has been fueled by
the many improvements that have been made since the April launch in response to
suggestions made by the site's members and by legal bloggers. Rempel explains: \"As
a result of these changes, the site now focuses more on eliciting information that
is relevant to its members. For example, the personal profile category that
formerly asked about the member's religion now asks for a practice area instead, and
the \'favorite movies\' category has been changed to \'education/accomplishments.\'\"

But Lawbby.com is not intended to compete with LinkedIn, another networking site
that focuses on career and business opportunities. \"While those kinds of
opportunities may arise from relationships started and nurtured on Lawbby.com,"
Rempel observed, "Lawbby.com is a more informal place for its members to socialize
and build their relationships organically. This informality is reflected in the
fact that any Lawbby member can contact another member, while on LinkedIn,
introductions must generally be mediated by a mutual contact.\"

According to a recent article in Knowledge@Wharton, an online business journal
published by the Wharton School of Business, social networking sites \"are ingrained
in Internet society . . . . The idea of joining online communities and being able to
participate in them is not going to disappear.\"

There is no fee to join Lawbby.com, and setting up a profile takes only a few
minutes. Lawyers and legal professionals can learn more by visiting www.Lawbby.com.

About Lawbby.com
Lawbby.com, a social networking site where lawyers and legal professionals can go
for business, leisure or both, was founded in April 2006 by partners Chris Rempel
and Kevin Cross.

Web Site = http://www.Lawbby.com

Contact Details = Chris Rempel
1773 Hobbes Drive
Hilliard , 43026
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877-529-1390
Chris@Lawbby.com
http://www.Lawbby.com