Dead Law Firms Website Society

If you have a few spare moments this law.com article is a great read.. what happens when law firms disappear into the ether – well, according to this piece they remain there….

Brian Baxter writes for Legal Technology…

Dead Law Firm Web Sites Haunt the Web

May 12, 2009

In checking in on the last Wolf Block partners making their way to new homes, we found ourselves visiting the Web sites of the soon-to-be-former firm more than a few times. That got us thinking about the online homes of other defunct firms. So we went in search of those former firms’ URLs and what, if anything, the remains of the sites tell us about how those partnerships wound down.

We looked at 13 unlucky firms, nearly half of whom still had active URLs. In organizing this list, we include the name of the firm, the dates it was operational, the headquarters location, a link to coverage of the firm’s demise, and details on Web site remains.

Read the rest of the article and see the list here  
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202430616665&Dead_Law_Firm_Web_Sites_Haunt_the_Web