Siskind, Susser, Haas & Devine, the publisher of Siskind's Immigration Bulletin and the producer of the Visalaw.com web site has been selected as the recipient of the Platinum Award by The Internet Marketing Attorney, an eZine that ranks and reviews law firm web sites. The IMA 2003 awards select firms in three categories:

- large firms;

- small and mid-sized firms; and

- international firms

SSHD's site was selected as the best in the small and mid-sized category. However, the site scored as the highest for any of the three categories.

In its review of Visalaw.com, IMA had this to say:

"For many involved in law firm web site development, this is where it all started. With Greg Siskind and Visalaw.com. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone on the planet involved in either the practice of immigration law or law firm web sites that have not been to this site at some point in time. This is where immigration lawyers go to learn what immigration lawyers should know. This is the site that people point to as the best example of how a small firm used the Internet to become a “player”. And this year, Visalaw finally succumbed to retiring the weakest component—a really drab design—and now has a site with look and functionality to compliment some of the most content-rich information available in a field of practice. This level of success does not come without a tremendous amount of time and energy (more than money), but they do not buy content from others or spend money getting the web site promoted—they succeed using their own credentials and person-power—a lesson for firms of all sizes and practices. Visalaw does not pay sites to post articles. People come here as the destination for information."

Greg Siskind, founding partner of SSHD, noted that the firm is very honored to receive the award. "When we started the web site nearly nine years ago, there were just a few other law firm web sites online and it was easy to get attention. But now with tens of thousands of other law firm web sites out there, to receive this kind of recognition is especially gratifying. The firm's lawyers and staff put a tremendous amount of effort into this site every day and we are elated that the work has been recognized."

The IMA rankings can be found online at http://www.internetmarketingattorney.com/web2003.php.