ABA Journal: ‘You decide’
May 28, 2008
In celebration of their recent Web award, the abajournal.com is letting you pick which of three acceptance speeches they’ll give at the June 10 ceremony. The site won the People’s Voice Webby Award in the Law category - an award that’s considered, by some, to be the Internet’s highest honor.
And for all the busy lawyers out there, choosing your fave should take less than 15 seconds. See, the choices are like a Haiku, only shorter — five words, to be exact.
They are:
1. Had we lost, we’d sue.
2. Shakespeare was wrong – lawyers live!
3. We don’t plan to appeal.
From the editor’s note on the achievement:
In addition to the People’s Voice award, the Webby judges also give an award in each category. In the Law category, it was won this year by the IT and e-commerce legal advice site Out-Law.com, which is published by the British law firm Pinsent Masons. Other nominees were the 2007-08 Recruiting Campaign at Shearman & Sterling; the University of Pittsburgh School of Law’s JURIST; and Pro Bono Net’s LawHelp.
….The Webby Awards famously limit acceptance speeches to just five words. In recent years, they’ve included Al Gore (”Please don’t recount this vote”), the Beastie Boys (”Can anyone fix my computer?”), and Prince (”Everything you think is true”).
JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor
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