Top Attorney Websites in Chicago area

I have worked with law firms and designing and managing their websites for the past 10 years. It is tough to find a good attorney. Below are my recommendations catergorized by practice areas:

Illinois DUI Attorney http://www.dialdui.com/
Nationwide DUI Attorney http://www.1800dialdui.com/

Traffic Tickets http://www.youraffordabledefense.com/

Estate Planning http://www.gierachlawfirm.com/

Business/Corporate http://www.gierachlawfirm.com/

Divorce http://www.illinoisdivorcetips.com/

Immigration http://www.mencinilaw.com/

General Practice http://www.mevorahlaw.com/

I know all of these firms personally and can help direct you to the right attorney.

What are the requirements of a good video?

Determine how many minutes of finished video you want. This determines how many hours of shooting you will need. The rule of thumb is that 1-2 hours of raw footage will net you 1 minute of material. Most directors of film want to shoot either half day (4 hours) or full day (8 hours). Always use a 2 person crew. Audio should be Brodacast quality and video and lighting need to be top notch. 2 cameras are much more costly and not needed. Do not go with HD the web cannot handle it well and it is very costly to store and stream. It is important to have a precall to list the questions and have a good idea of the answers you are looking for. The field producers can craft the questions if we have a precall. Use a MAC computer using FinalCutPro for editing. Interview questions and timecodes, always get the timecode when you start a new line of questions and end a section. Also get timecodes for b-roll. It takes 1-2 hours of editing for a 1 minut video. Several providers who will support the host and sreaming of video Brightcoven, Maven and Feedroom are the largest YouTube is moving that direction but is not there yet. Finished videos should be saved in the .mov format similiar to the mpeg-4 (open) or the .wmv (windows) format the clips need to be uploaded in the player software BrightCover offers 7 different players and includes all of the SEO and SEM capabilites and hosting and streaming. If you go with a custom player you will need to put the content on a CDN like Akamai or Limelight which is also a additional cost. Load the clips to your software name them, or load a thumbnail and integrate them into a player publish the code and give that to the webprogramer to integrate into the page. 3rd party uploads there are many free services tubemogal or tubehunter. Reporting is by views clips and sites this can be exported to excel and e-mailed out to customers.

Best 3rd Party Distributiond and Hosting for Video

Video Distribution (SEO, Video Players, Hosting & Streaming):

Brightcove http://brightcove.com/

Maven Networks http://www.maven.net/

FeedRoom http://www.feedroom.com/

Third Party Distribution/Tracking:TubeMogul http://www.tubemogul.com

VidMetrix http://www.vidmetrix.com

Hey!Spread http://heyspread.com/

Shoutlet http://www.shoutlet.com/

VideoPostRobot http://aniscartujo.com/videopostrobot/

Why Chicago Lawyers need video for their Websites

Over 350 million people view websites worldwide, and this number should grow to over 1 billion by 2013.

Videos are a great to increase traffic to your website and telephone calls to your lawfirm. Videos also increase conversion. Studies show that you have a 25% better chance to retain a client from a website if you have a video.

Last year when Google introduced the universal search videos are now showing up in the search engine results list along with websites. You can now show up in multiple places on the same page.

Videos are easily indexed, most places like www.youtube.com www.video.aol.com www.video.google.com are indexing for free. You have to be careful because many large legal web developers are charging hundreds of dollars per month to do this.

Online Video Concepts, LLC will show you to do this for free. I will be posting attorney videos later this month with search engine results.