Public Urged to Vote for Pitt's Jurist Law Web Site In The Webby People's Voice Competition
PITTSBURGH-JURIST, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law's legal learning portal on the Internet, has once again been nominated for a Webby Award in the law category by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The legal site also is in the running for The Webby People's Voice competition on the Web, an honor it received in 2006.
Pitt law professor Bernard Hibbitts, executive director Jeannie Shawl (LAW '05), and a staff of approximately 40 Pitt law students operate JURIST.
Fans can vote for JURIST, the only Web-based, student-powered legal news source, through May 1 by registering at http://pv.webbyawards.com/account/signup. Once registered, an activation code will be e-mailed to the registrant. To vote, log on to http://pv.webbyawards.com/ and click on "Website: Vote Now" scroll down to "Society" and click on the "Law" category and, then "Vote for JURIST!"
Other Web nominees in the law category include ABA Journal, LawHelp, and OUT-LAW.COM. Winners in all categories of the judged competition will be announced May 6.
The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by the academy, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries, and creative celebrities.
The 11th Annual Webby Awards received 8,000-plus entries from more than 60 countries and all 50 states and generated more than 750 million media impressions worldwide.
The Webby Awards presents two honors-the Webby Award and the People's Voice Award-in every category in each of its four entry types: Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film and Video, and Mobile. Members of the academy select the nominees for both awards in each category, as well as the winners of the Webby Awards. Each year, the People's Voice Awards garners hundreds of thousands of votes from the Web community all over the world.
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