LawLink, the first and largest professional and social networking site exclusively for attorneys in the US, is now open to attorneys in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

“When we initially launched LawLink, we were inundated with requests from attorneys all over the world,” says Steven Choi, LawLink’s founder and CEO. “But because LawLink manually screens every applicant, we only had the resources to handle attorneys from the US. Now that we’ve grown, so have our resources. We are happy to welcome attorneys from Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.”

LawLink plans to continually add more countries until a global network of attorneys is created. Currently, over 4,000 attorneys from the US have joined LawLink.

On LawLink, attorneys can network with other attorneys locally, nationally and now internationally. Attorneys can upload, share and download legal documents. Attorneys can create or join private Law Groups. Attorneys can submit their blog to LawLink’s interactive law blog directory. Attorneys can post free classified ads and discuss legal topics in the forum.

They could have just formed their own group within the bigger social networks that we already have. What can we do? They want to do it on their own. Besides, I am betting on niche social networks than those large ones.

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