A Webby Award.

JURIST, the Pitt School of Law's legal news and research service, has won The Webby People's Voice Award competition. Winners of the Webby awards, which honor excellence in Web design, creativity, usability, and functionality, were released by the International Academy of the Digital Arts and Sciences last month.

In the People's Voice Award competition, Web users had the opportunity to vote for the sites they believed to be best in various categories. JURIST was one of five finalists in the law category. The other nominees were Court TV; FindLaw; Justice Learning, an NPR-New York Times collaboration; and Nolo, legal self-help. The winner was proclaimed based on popular vote.

The Webby People's Voice Award gathered more than 200,000 votes from Web users all over the world. This is the first time a law school Web site has won a Webby Award.

JURIST is staffed mainly by volunteer law student reporters, editors, and Web developers led by Pitt law professor Bernard Hibbitts. It is the only law school-based legal news service.