Dear Current and Prospective Clients,

I am excited to report that in early January, Chard.Net will be officially changing its name to The Modern Firm, LLC.

With the name change comes a more intense focus on serving the needs of solo and small law firm lawyers. In the last 3 years we have grown in every regard. We now have an energetic and dedicated full time staff of four (five if you count the dog) and have worked with more than 200 law firms in over 20 states. As we have grown, our focus has narrowed. Though we do and will continue to work with a variety of businesses to provide professional website hosting and maintenance, we now focus our website design and marketing abilities exclusively on solo and small law firms.

Reasoning
The niche focus on small law firm website design and marketing is in large part responsible for the desire to change our name and image. We are consistently working with lawyers that are excited about their practice, excited about their clients, and excited about doing things their way. These lawyers are making practical use of resources on the web and technology in their office to provide a high value of service while competing directly with much larger law firms. Our clients, you, are defining what it means to be a modern law firm.

The other element that influenced the name change are the incredible professionals I’ve met while traveling and speaking at CLE conferences. These professionals, each dedicated to helping lawyers succeed, have knowledge and services that can benefit almost every lawyer. Their knowledge extends across issues such as time management, marketing, coaching, technology, career transition, ethics, practice management. I felt it was important to provide a medium through which our clients could be connected to these people. Now, through our new law practice blog, you can find a growing collection of articles and resources from these professionals and learn more about them.

Services
All of the services currently offered by Chard.Net will continue unchanged. For attorney website design we will continue to offer multiple, easy to understand design packages. Our current hosting and website maintenance services will remain the same. We will be offering two new hosting services, including Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Modern Mega Mail, a secure delivery service for large and/or sensitive files.

Check It Out

• The new website is currently live at www.themodernfirm.com
• View the new layout for our law firm website design portfolio
  

We’re pleased to be working with Minneapolis family law attorney Geri Napuck. Ms. Napuck has selected The Modern Firm for our search engine optimization marketing service.  We will optimize her website for online searchers looking for a Minneapolis divorce attorney.  We will also target specific key phrases, such as: Minneapolis divorce lawyer and Minneapolis family law.

The Modern Firm, formerly Chard.Net, is pleased to announce that Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Divorce attorney, Lori Becker, has chosen The Modern Firm for our search engine optimization services.  We will increase her visibility in search engines for key words, such as: Michigan Collaborative Law, Bloomfield Hills Divorce Lawyer, and Bloomfield Hills Family Law.

The Modern Firm, formerly Chard.Net, is very pleased to announce that Frisco, Texas divorce lawyer Phil Moore has selected us to optimize his family law website. With optimization we will be able to greatly increase the visibility of Mr. Moore’s website when users search for keywords, such as: Frisco Divorce Lawyer, Frisco Family Law Attorney, and Texas Divorce Attorney.

Mr. Moore offers a full-range Texas family law legal services, including:  Divorce, Modification and Enforcement of Divorce Decrees, Paternity Suits, Termination of Parental Rights, Domestic Adoption, Grandparent Access, Premarital Agreements, Separation Agreements,  Texas Collaborative Law.

We’re pleased to be working with Raleigh immigration attorney Laura Edgerton. Laura Edgerton has practiced immigration law for almost fifteen years.  She brings a high level of corporate immigration experience to the firm along with a strong commitment to ethics and the desire and ability to help her clients achieve their goals.

We at The Modern Firm, formerly Chard.Net, will be working closely with Laura to ensure that people looking for a North Carolina immigration attorney will find her website and the valuable information it contains.  Laura is a regular contributor to her immigration blog and frequently speaks to community groups and groups of lawyers to provide valuable continuing legal education.

The government contracts attorneys at Eckland & Blando LLP have begun working with The Modern Firm to further promote their services to government contractors through-out the Midwest.  We’re excited to be working with the law firm so quickly after completing their new website and look forward to earning them a good return on investment.  Their government contracts law firm was founded fairly recently yet the attorneys have earned a national reputation with some very notable cases.

Hails Law, PLLC has selected The Modern  Firm to work with their existing website to promote it online.  In practice since 1993, Southfield probate attorney Carine Hails has created a boutique law firm that serves southeast Michigan.  She is passionate about helping her clients create estate plans that protect their assets and avoid complications.

We will be assisting Carine in attracting visitors that are looking for a Southfield estate planning attorney a Detroit probate attorney or a Detroit estate planning lawyer.  We are excited to be working with her firm and look forward to earning positive results.

If you’re interested in marketing your law firm, please contact us by visiting our website at www.themodernfirm.com.

We are pleased to announce that long time client, Attig Law Firm, has selected The Modern Firm (Formerly Chard.Net) for internet marketing.  As a federal employee lawyer, Chris works with individuals that are MSPB Appeals, OWCP Claims and EEOC Complaints.

We look forward to getting our hands on Chris’s website to improve his search placement and streamline his online advertising.

We are pleased to announce that Detroit Michigan bankruptcy attorney John Steinberger has selected The Modern Firm, LLC to optimize and promote his new website. The Modern Firm prides itself on being able to offer aggressive, effective and affordable search engine marketing for lawyers.

For the Law Office of John A. Steinberger & Associates we will be optimizing the website to target the following key phrases

• Detroit Bankruptcy Attorney
• Michigan Bankruptcy Attorney
• Detroit Bankruptcy Lawyer
• Michigan Bankruptcy Lawyer

The website that The Modern Firm, LLC created for John Steinberger contains attorney profiles, a firm overview, resources and helpful bankruptcy information and testimonials. We look forward to continuing to work with John and his staff. Be sure to google our targets to see how we’re doing!

We are pleased to welcome our friends over at Paydirt, LLC as our latest hosting clients.

Started by Jill Kolling, Paydirt is a consulting firm that helps companies implement practical sustainability strategies, delivering maximum benefit to both the environment and their clients’ bottom line. If you’re interested in reducing your environmental impact, Paydirt can work with you to design solutions that make sense for your business.

We are pleased to be working with Chicago workers comp lawyer Paul Nemoy of Howard and Nemoy to aid in their online marketing. Paul has been helping Chicago and Illinois residents that have been injured on the job for over 30 years. With that experience, the firm is able to efficiently and fairly help their clients settle their Illinois workers compensation claims.

We will be working on search engine marketing as well as pay-per-click strategies to help the firm give more visibility to it’s tremendous workers compensation services.

Minneapolis family law attorney Bonnie Westlin has selected Chard.Net to aid in her advanced website optimization.  We’re excited to be working with Bonnie and will be running a targeted campaign aimed at searchers looking for a Minneapolis divorce attorney.

Bonnie is a family law attorney that offices out of St. Louis Park and serves clients throughout the metro area. She delivers first-class legal representation and peace of mind to clients through vigorous advocacy and creative problem-solving. We look forward to helping the success of her online marketing efforts.