Even More Firms Dropping Out of Martindale-Hubbell
In an informal survey of Philadelphia firms by Delaware Valley Law Firm Marketing Group shows that more firms are eliminating or scaling back their Martindale-Hubbell's directory listing. Delaware Valley Group founder Stacy West Clark said the cost of the listings -- firms pay by the word or "unit" -- was causing firms "enormous pain."
An article on Law.com reported that the following firms were the latest to drop out:
- Dechert
- Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young
- Saul Ewing
- White & Williams
- Flaster Greenberg
This comes on the heels of pullouts by megafirms Baker & McKenzie, Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. See More Firms Opt out of Martindale-Hubbell.
In November 2007 LexisNexis® announced "a top-to-bottom Transformation of Martindale-Hubbell," changing it from a legal directory to an online destination for sophisticated buyers of legal services.
"Although firms realize general counsel may be using Martindale-Hubbell to find outside counsel, cost-benefit analyses just aren't convincing marketers at some of the area's largest firms," the Law.com article says.
Flaster/Greenberg has scaled back from Martindale-Hubbell, but we haven't dropped out.