Following my last post on law firm newsletters having to compete with the best online law news services, it’s worth pointing to two law news sites who fortuitously received gongs last week as the very best in their respective industries:

OUT-LAW.com was awarded the 2008 Webby Award in the Law category. The Webby Awards are “the leading international award honoring excellence on the internet presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities”. “Better than the Oscars” according to Vanity Fair. Although OUT-LAW is much more than a news site, I suspect most of its traffic comes via the news section. For news on IT and e-commerce law, OUT-LAW, replete with categorised RSS feeds, cannot be bettered.

Legal Week was named Weekly Business Magazine of the Year at the 2008 PPA awards – “the most coveted in the magazine industry”. Legal Week was praised for its “agenda-setting coverage”, a “ground-breaking redesign” and its success at building a “vibrant online community”. “It’s intelligent, not gimmicky and suits its readership. It demonstrates great knowledge …”

How does your law firm newsletter stack up?