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Interested in seeing your writing featured on Lawyerist? We accept high-quality guest posts, and we are always on the lookout for promising writers who could become regular contributors.

Whether you have an idea for a single guest post, a plan for a series of posts, or you want to become a regular contributor to Lawyerist, please email your proposal to us.

Guest Posts

Before you send a guest post, email us your proposal along with links to 2–3 blog posts you have written and your personal bio. Don’t ask us to come up with things for you to write about.

Here’s the deal. It takes us longer to review, edit, and publish guest posts than posts from our regular contributors, so if you want us to review your guest post, it must be as good or better than what we expect from our regular contributors.

We are happy to take the time to work with guest posters in exchange for compelling content, but we don’t need guest posts to fill out our posting schedule. So unless you bring a great post idea, great writing, and competent style to the table, we aren’t all that interested in helping you publish a guest post on Lawyerist.

Guest Post Style Guide

Guest posts should be 750–1,500 words of practical information or actionable advice about the practice of law (not about SEO, website design, or linkbaiting). Please submit your posts as text or—if you must—as a Word or ODT document. Guest posts must be original content, though they can cite and link back to other sources. You may find our previous guest posts useful to better understand what we look for in post proposals.

For some basic advice on guest blogger best practices, read How to be a Good Guest Blogger from ProBlogger, and 7 Mistakes that Lead to Guest Post Failure from Copyblogger.

The following are not optional.

1. One space between sentences.
2. Link to relevant posts — on Lawyerist and elsewhere, in that order of preference — within your guest post.
3. Proofread your post, and make an effort to get punctuation, capitalization, and generally follow good blogging style. More people will probably read this post than anything else you have written.

If you use two spaces (or more) between sentences, we will reject your post. If you fail to include relevant links within your post, we will reject your post. If it is riddled with errors, we will reject your post. If it sucks for any reason, we will reject your post.

Guest Posting Details

Guest posts are unpaid, but provide a chance to have your writing published in a leading legal blog, build your resume, and drive traffic to your own site.

When you submit a guest post, you grant us an exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual license to publish online any content you create for us, whether text, video, audio, or any other medium, with attribution. Online publication includes websites, email, or other internet-based media. You also grant us a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual license to publish offline any content you create for us, whether text, video, audio, or any other medium, with attribution. Offline publication may include printed, recorded, or other tangible media.

If your planned post is commercial or promotional in any way, we are happy to consider it as a paid Sponsored Post, but we will not publish it as a guest post.

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Lawyerist also has limited opportunities for paid staff writer positions. Contact us if you are interested.