OUT-LAW wins best legal web site award

Press release: 09/02/2004

Masons, the international law firm specialising in technology and information law, has picked up the Best Legal Website award at the RJ Cuthbert Associates' Scottish Legal Awards ceremony in Glasgow, held on 6th February 2004. The firm runs the internationally acclaimed OUT-LAW (www.out-law.com) website out of its Glasgow office.

OUT-LAW is Masons' e-commerce support and information service. Launched 2000, it now has more than 17,000 subscribers world-wide and 4,500 pages of content. In addition to the OUT-LAW website which offers free information and checklists to help businesses, it also produces a quarterly magazine and a weekly e-mail news bulletin distributed to more than 10,000 people. According to an independent internet traffic monitor, OUT-LAW is the most visited law firm website in the world. Its content is also syndicated to Google News.

The idea behind OUT-LAW was to develop a service to share Masons' IT knowledge and experience and to provide the practical effect of the laws, rather than a regurgitation of legislation or judicial commentary. Large suppliers and users of IT and e-commerce services regularly use OUT-LAW to obtain legal information they cannot get elsewhere.

Struan Robertson, OUT-LAW's site editor, commented:

"We are delighted to have received this award, which reflects the endless amount of hard work put into OUT-LAW. It is now recognised as one of the strongest legal brands on the internet. In addition, this year we will be launching new on-line legal services under the OUT-LAW brand, reflecting our continuous development of OUT-LAW legal services aimed to inform businesses about how the law applies to the different commercial opportunities raised by technological advances."

For further information please contact:

Vincent Gray
OUT-LAW.COM
vincent.gray@out-law.com
+44 (0)141 248 4858
www.out-law.com

Notes to Editors:

OUT-LAW.COM is part of Masons, a law firm based in London with offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China, Singapore, Dublin and throughout the UK.

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