Registration is now open for Avvocating 2012! The 3rd annual online legal marketing conference is being held on Thursday, May 3 and Friday, May 4, 2012 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle, Washington.

Rich Barton, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Zillow and Founder of Expedia, will give the keynote presentation, followed by an impressive lineup of technology and legal industry leaders:

• Mark Britton: Founder, CEO and President, Avvo

• Carolyn Elefant: Lawyer, Blogger at MyShingle.com and Author of Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be and Co-Author of Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier.

• Michael Blumenthal: Small Business Consultant, Google Maps and Local Search Industry Expert and Blogger at Blumenthals.com/blog

• Tyson Snow: Founding partner at Mumford West & Snow LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. His practice areas include employment law and intellectual property litigation.Tyson is also the founder of Social Media, Esq.,a blog about social media for attorneys.

• Rich Sierra: Florida business attorney and founder of The Law Firm of Richard Sierra & Associates.

• Vanessa Fox: Author of Marketing in the Age of Google, Creator of Google Webmaster Tools and Founder of Nine by Blue.

• Ari Kaplan: Lawyer, Author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace and Founder of Ari Kaplan Advisors.

• Josh King: General Counsel and Vice President Business Development, Avvo

• Duane Forrester:Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Bing Webmaster Outreach Program,Author and Columnist at Searchengineland.com.

• Mark Kelly: President, Chair 10 Marketing a Seattle-based Internet marketing consulting firm.

• Matt Homann: Innovational Speaker, Creative Facilitator, Lawyer and Founder of LexThinkand the author of the legal blog “the [non]billable hour”.

To register for Avvocating 2012, please visit online: www.avvocating.com. For information about sponsorship, please contact Megan Olendorf at megan@avvo.com.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of our 2011 webinar series. We still have a couple sessions remaining, but looking ahead to the new year, we’ve just launched our free legal marketing webinar schedule for the first several months of 2012.

We’ll cover a range of topics including blogging, reputation management, online ethics, social media, website analytics, public relations and search engine optimization. Everything you need to know about how to market the good work you’re doing for clients, to drive more business to your firm. We’ll also have guests from time to time, including Mark Merenda, Founder of SmartMarketing, David Ackert, President of The Ackert Advisory and Stephen Fairly, CEO of The Rainmaker Institute.

Hope you can take time to join us each week, on Thursdays at 1PM ET/10AM PT.

Thanks as always for supporting Avvo and have a Happy Thanksgiving!