We understand this is an extensive and rigorous policy. However, it is intended to make the experience of publishing with us as smooth as possible, all while providing quality content to our readers. We appreciate your understanding and compliance.
What we publish
- Law topics – lawsuits, explanations of laws, case updates, law school and law practice-related topics, etc.
- Law-related Business topics – regulatory compliance, entity formation (LLCs, corporations), contract issues, intellectual property issues (IP protection), employment law, data privacy, AI regulation.
- Law-related Health topics such as legal regulations and medical care, HIPPA, medical malpractice, insurance (Medicare/Medicaid), bioethics, public health policies (vaccination, tobacco control), mental health law, informed consent, health data security in AI.
- Law-firm/lawyer-specific Marketing topics
- Press Releases – from lawyers/law firms only unless related to an update on a case involving the party behind the press release (a business successfully defended a lawsuit, etc.).
NOTE: You should expect a rejection of your article if it’s “Legal Considerations of [non-legal thing]” or “Legal Aspects of [non-legal thing]”. In our experience, everything has some legal aspect, but we are not interested in general topics, such as “Legal Aspects of Training Your New Puppy”.
Who can be a guest author
Legal writers must either:
- have a legal background (lawyer, paralegal, etc.),
- work for a law firm writing for lawyers/firms (which must be listed as the author),
- Be a law-related support business (legal software, bail bonds, bar prep, etc.) or,
- Be a PR agency submitting press releases/articles on behalf of clients.
Health writers must either:
- have a medical background (doctor, nurse practitioner, nurse, other medical professionals, therapists, etc.)
- work in healthcare writing for doctors/hospitals/agencies (which must be listed as the author), or
- Be a business that supports the healthcare field – labs, billers, etc. (which must be listed as author).
How publishing with us works:
- Publishing with us is FREE.
- You get your own byline (your name as you would like it to appear, a one-paragraph bio, and a head shot). You may reference your website in your bio. Please note: We will not publish articles without a byline.
- Articles are never labeled “Guest”, “Sponsored”, etc.
- All links in posts are do-follow. The link in your bio is also do-follow.
- Articles will remain on our site as long as we’re in business.
- Articles can be 500 – 1,500 words long.
- Articles should be sent to jay@legalreader.com, with the subject line LegalReader Submission.
- All submissions must be MSWord formatted. PDFs are not accepted as we cannot guarantee your links will all survive the upload process. If you send anything other than an MSWord file, your submission will be automatically rejected.
- We publish two images with each post. We provide the images to ensure there is no copyright infringement. Exceptions are images contained in press releases. In these cases, we will use your images.
- Our turnaround time is based on the volume of submissions, but is usually 2-4 weeks from receipt of article to publication.
- Due to the volume of submissions, it may take up to two weeks to receive either a publication date or a rejection notice. We will not reply to follow up messages as those only delay our review process.
- While we welcome long-term guest authors, submissions are limited to four (4) per month to ensure a wider variety of authors are published.
- We do not accept “urgent” articles. If your submission email says, “This is urgent” or “The must be published [today, this week, etc.]”, we will automatically reject that article.
- We do not work with freelancers. While there are great ones, we’ve found that this is frustrating for both of us. Your clients have their expected deadlines and we cannot guarantee that your article would publish by that deadline.
- We will consider working with marketing agencies (general and those that cater to lawyer/law firm clients only), but only if there is no third-party client deadline.