Last week we launched a major revision of our website, www.WilliamPfeifer.com.  The main pages of the old site have been migrated over to the new system, though some of the pages are still having some quirks.  Some resource pages of the old site are still appearing under the old website design, but that will be resolved soon.  Overall, we have made significant progress to the new site’s development.  Making major changes to a website design can be challenging when the work is being squeezed in around a full-time law practice.  However, using the slow but steady approach the work is getting done.  Please bear with us for a few more days while the transition takes place.

Later this week we will be posting some more articles on legal news items, as well as some articles on important issues in Alabama law.  In particular, we will be writing about trying to set aside convictions under Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure.  An issue that sometimes arises in criminal cases is that a defendant is forced to waive the right to file a Rule 32 petition as a condition of his guilty plea.  This causes the defendant to believe that he no longer has the right to file a Rule 32 petition, when that is not necessarily true.  Some issues, like the right to receive effective assistance of counsel and the right to be free of coercion in a guilty plea, cannot be waived.  Watch for the article on this subject that is planned for later this week.

Please be patient as our site is upgraded.  Once the changes are done, it will have all been worth the effort.

William L. Pfeifer, Jr.

Alabama State Bar rules require the following in every attorney advertisement: “No representation is made that the quality of legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of services provided by other attorneys.”

Thank you for your patience as we transition our website over to a new publishing system.  While the primary pages are working now, there are still some spacing and formatting issues to be resolved.  For example, some pages are recognizing paragraph breaks while others are not.  Outbound links and crosslinks which existed under the old site have not been added back in yet, and there are still resources published under the old site which have not migrated into the new publishing software.  Unless the old page has been replaced with an updated page on the new site, the page still displays under the old system – which creates a rather odd browsing experience.  We will be working on these issues over the next few days to make the site easier to navigate and so that it can provide greater resources to our visitors.

The random set of photos which were rotating across our pages have been removed, and we have replaced them with a series of Alabama courthouse photos.  The photos still rotate randomly across the pages, but instead of photos of coffee cups and joggers on the beach we now have courthouse pictures.  The photos that are posted on the site so far were obtained from photographers on Flickr who posted their courthouse photographs under a Creative Commons attribution license.  To find out more information about any of the photos or photographers whose work was used on this site, just click on the photo and you will go directly to that photo’s page on Flickr.

Some of the photographers whose work we used include: MGShelton (Melinda Shelton), alwright1 (Andrea Wright), Robert S. Donovan (Robert S. Donovan), Photo Denbow (Chris Denbow), LakeMartinVoice (John Coley), dbking (DB King) and NatalieMaynor (Natalie Maynor).  We are grateful that they chose to share their photos with the public under an attribution license, and we look forward to seeing more of their work in the future.

We will be adding additional photos to this site over the coming weeks, using photos by other photographers as well as some of our own courthouse photos.  Please visit our site again soon to check on our progress.

The Contact form on our new site does not have as many options as the one on our old system, so we expect to be upgrading that portion of the site soon.  However, the form does work, so you can use it to contact us by email.  Since it is functional, upgrading it with extra bills and whistles is a low priority right now.

Once the site updates are concluded, we will be undertaking a dramatic expansion of the legal resources offered on this site.  We will also be posting frequent blog posts about legal issues of concern to our readers.  Please visit our site again soon to check on our progress.

William L. Pfeifer, Jr.

Attorney at Law

Alabama State Bar rules require the following: “No representation is made that the quality of legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of services provided by other lawyers.”

Site upgrades in progress.

We are currently upgrading our website with new software and moving our files to the new site.  Please pardon any glitches, oddities, or unusual aspects of the site (like the random photos currently appearing on the pages) while we are transitioning to the new program.  Once this is completed, our site should operate faster with a cleaner and more enjoyable user interface.  Please visit our site again soon.

Thanks!

William L. Pfeifer, Jr.