Today we’ll be examining Alllaw.com – yet another member of the Nolo network of websites and the huge InternetBrands.com conglomerate.

This growing network of websites has undergone innumerable name changes in the past several years and has become increasingly interlinked with one another. It’s becoming harder to distinguish one from the other and it’s incredibly easy to find yourself navigating to a completely different site.

Alllaw.com has been around in one form or another since the late 1990s. It was bought up along with several other well-established legal websites to form the Nolo Network in 2011.

If you’re familiar with our ongoing investigative series Clearway Investigates then you know what you’re in for. We’ll be diving deep into Alllaw.com to give you a full 360 view of the websites, so you can decide if it’s worth your attention.

What is AllLaw.com?

Alllaw.com in its current form is above all a free online legal resource. It’s one of the big names in the legal website vertical, mostly due to its longevity. It’s a true original – online for over twenty years.

The website has been able to amass a huge amount of content on a wide breadth of legal topics in that time.

The website features a large number of articles and guides designed to help the public at large gain a greater, more rounded understanding of the law. This free legal information is all organized by popular topics under broader areas of the law. This makes it easy for web visitors to access Alllaw.com’s wealth of invaluable legal information, and easily drill down to exactly the type of information they need.

Review of Alllaw

For a user looking to do legal research though, the site’s lead capture machine is very much front and center. Each article on the site features a call to action at the very top of the page that advertises legal services for that particular area of the law. From a lead-generating standpoint, I get it, but it’s a very intrusive and frustrating feature for those just looking to take advantage of the site as a legal resource.

Alllaw.com Legal Calculators

Alllaw.com has also gained a bit of a reputation for its slew of legal calculators, for things like working out settlements in personal injury cases, payment calculators for child support and bankruptcy. These are among the most popular areas of the site.

These legal payment calculators are broken down by state, so each calculator takes into account the state law governing the areas of law the calculators are designed to help you with.

The interface itself is fairly intuitive. Once you’ve selected your state, you just need to enter the required values and the calculator will work out your total. The interface is even mobile friendly so you can calculate on the go.

Keep in mind this is no replacement for getting the advice of a real, qualified legal professional but it can be a handy tool for research purposes.

Legal How-To Guides

Additionally, there are a number of helpful estate planning guides that can walk website visitors through several everyday legal documentation tasks avoiding the cost of hiring a lawyer to tackle relatively simple, everyday legal matters. We’re talking about things like writing up your own will or creating a living trust.

Alllaw.com Lawyer Directory

At one time, Alllaw.com was a full-fledged legal directory like many of the ones we’ve already reviewed on Clearwaylaw.com. See our reviews of HG.org, Avvo.com and Superlawyers.com for example.

Nowadays, it’s been rolled into the Martindale-Nolo family and used primarily as a lead-generating tool for the infamous Martindale pay-per-lead service. You can read more about that particular service in our review of Martindale.com.

Clicking the “Find a Lawyer” link won’t take you to a directory of lawyer profiles for you to choose from as you might expect, but instead a form. Here you fully enter the particulars of your case and the area of law and the system will “recommend” a selection of lawyers from their network.

Plus the Lawyer Directory at the top of the page takes you to the Nolo.com webpage.

Is Alllaw.com worth my time?

On its own, Alllaw.com doesn’t have much to offer lawyers and legal professionals. The website has been rolled into the Martindale-Nolo suite of products and its lead-generation machine. For your consideration, we encourage you to take our in-depth reviews of both Nolo.com and Martindale.com to get a better idea if these are the services you are looking for.

As you’ll see in our reviews, this network of sites attracts a ton of traffic collectively. According to SEMRush, Alllaw.com itself has a trust score of 65 and attracts over 200,000 organic visitors (from search) each month.

If you want to take advantage of this, you’ll have to go through and set up a profile through Nolo.com. Signing up for that website and setting up a profile provides visibility across an extensive network, for a monthly fee of course.

Alllaw.com Review – Final Thoughts

Overall, there isn’t a whole lot to Alllaw.com anymore. At one time, the site was a full-service legal services website, complete with a lawyer directory, well-researched law articles and guides, calculators and legal forms.

Since being folded into the Martindale-Nolo network, all that remains of Alllaw.com is its huge breadth of legal articles, which is no small thing really. The site maintains a good reputation as a source of legal information to the public and is regularly referenced in articles throughout the web.

Review of Alllaw Conclusion

For the public at large, the website provides a welcoming and noble service of offering up free articles on different aspects of the law. Alllaw.com also features how-to guides on a few of the simpler legal processes, potentially providing some savings on legal services.

Beyond that, Alllaw.com has become part of the extensive network of sites that feeds leads to the Martindale.com pay-per-lead service that we have reviewed previously. From a law professional standpoint, Alllaw.com doesn’t have much to offer at all.

That’ll be about it for this edition of Clearway Investigates. As always, we encourage you to check back often for new additions to this ongoing series, not to mention blogs on innumerable other topics.

Let us know if you’d like us to review a specific website or write about an aspect of the law you’re curious about. 

We hope you enjoyed this review of Alllaw. Until next time!