Law school migrates to new .edu Web domain

CHARLESTON, S.C., June 13, 2008 -- The Charleston School of Law today is moving its online presence to a Web site with a different ending -- the .edu domain that signifies its status as an accredited educational institution.

The school's Web site now is: www.charlestonlaw.edu

REMINDER If you have any of the school's Web pages bookmarked, we suggest for you to update them with the .edu domain.

"We started working through the bureaucratic process of getting the kind of Web domain associated with full-service law schools when we were accredited in December 2006," Dean Andy Abrams said today. "Former Dean Richard Gershon deserves a lot of the credit for dealing with the paperwork and snarls in shifting to the new .edu domain.

"This new Web domain more accurately reflects our professional education status and is, in many ways, more evidence that we have arrived," Abrams said. He added that the school could have started using the .edu domain earlier this year, but chose to wait until after the Class of 2008 graduated in May.

"As you can imagine, there are a lot of things that have to happen when you shift to a new Web site address to make for a seamless transition," Abrams said. "Faculty, staff and students get new email addresses; new stationery and business cards have to be ordered; brochures and publications need to be altered."

Abrams said the Web site that has been used by the school since its founding four years ago - www.charlestonlaw.org - will continue to work for awhile, but suggested that people start using the new Web site - and adjust their email addresses to end with .edu, instead of .org.