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Are you a lawyer who was recently Martindale-Hubbell® Client or Peer
Review rated? Are you excited about it? If you are one of our 100,000+
lawyers who have well established ratings, odds are you are pretty
excited. These ratings currently reside on your profile on
Lawyers.com and martindale.com® websites. The only other place where you can display your ratings is on your LinkedIn profile via Martindale-Hubbell® Lawyer Ratings application.
So what can you do if you have a website
and you want to display those stellar ratings on your website for free?
Unfortunately, not much. I am excited to say that this is no longer the
case! With the
release of Martindale-Hubbell® Peer and Client Review Ratings widget,
you can
now display your ratings anywhere with just a few lines of code. Here is
how you do it - |
Step 1 - Include the following 2 lines of script code somewhere in your HTML code within <head> element -
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://svcs.martindale.com/Ratings/Ratings.js"></script>
Step 2 - Locate your unique International Standard Lawyer Number (ISLN). Each lawyer is
identified by a single ISLN, the
industry standard for tracking individual lawyers throughout their
careers. If you don't know what your ISLN is, fear not! We have built an ID Look up tool for that purpose. Follow the easy steps mentioned in the tool to get your ISLN.
Step 3 -
Now that you have your ISLN number, you are pretty much set. Simply
copy and paste the following lines into your HTML code. Make sure you
replace the ID parameter (highlighted in yellow) with the ISLN number
you got from Step 2 above
<div class="ratings_widget" id="1275001" profile="attorney">
<div class="ratings_header"></div>
<div class="ratings_content"><a href="http://www.lawyers.com">Lawyers</a></div></div>
Once you do all this, here is how the Ratings widget will be displayed on your website -
You can control a few aspects of this widget. Complete documentation
is posted on the LexisNexis Developer Center site. For instance, say
you are only Peer Rated and you'd like to display only Peer Ratings on
this widget. We have provided you with an optional parameter named
'rating' which you can pass as shown below -
<div class="ratings_widget" id="1275001" profile="attorney" rating="prr">
<div class="ratings_header"></div>
<div class="ratings_content"><a href="http://www.lawyers.com">Lawyers</a></div></div>
If you follow the above code, the ratings widget will look something like this -
If you are part of a larger firm with quite a few lawyers, you can
showcase ratings of each lawyer within their biography page. In fact, if
your firm has Martindale-Hubbell® ratings, you could display that on
your homepage.The only difference here is that you will pass an ORG_ID
instead of ISLN. You can locate the ORG_ID using the same ID Look up tool. Here is an example of a law firm website - Ansbacher & Associates, P.A. who is leveraging Martindale-Hubbell® Peer and Client Review Ratings widget on their lawyer's professional profile page.
Although personal recommendation is the most prevalent reason for
someone to select a lawyer, lawyer ratings are a consumer favorite as
well. It brings credibility to you as a legal professional and
confidence to consumers seeking legal assistance. After all they are
shopping for the best lawyer to represent them in their legal matter.
What better way to tip them in your favor than display
Martindale-Hubbell® Ratings.
As always, we are eager to hear from you. Happy integrating!
Posted
Wed, Jan 11 2012 8:26 PM
by
Manish bhargava