LAW.COM Submission Guidelines

Law.com is a news and information network that connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and regional legal publications online. As part of ALM Media Inc., Law.com is an Incisive Media company.

The Legal Technology section on Law.com seeks timely, expert-authored articles, commentaries and practice papers, as well as items for our free directories: technology white papers and software downloads.

ARTICLES/COMMENTARIES/PRACTICE PAPERS

Articles, commentaries and practice papers can be about any current topic in legal technology, ranging from how law firms and lawyers use certain technology, to how they should use a certain technology, to how technology impacts the law or the legal profession, including e-discovery.

The Legal Technology section will consider both finished articles and pitches for article assignments. Pitches -- just a paragraph describing the proposed story and its interest to the legal technology community and citing planned information sources -- are welcome prior to article submission.

Articles should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words. Longer articles may be acceptable depending on the circumstances. Articles should adhere to Associated Press editorial style to the extent possible.

Law.com doesn't accept articles written by anyone paid by a vendor or service provider. This would include hardware and software manufacturers and e-discovery service providers; it may also include consultants. Note, however, that this policy does not apply to technology white papers and software downloads. See below for those article types.

An author is not required to submit a headline or subheads with the article, but may do so. Like the article itself, they’re subject to editing. Other material, such as sidebars or charts, should be proposed prior to article submission.

Links to be included within the text of the article should be added in the following format: < a class="linelink" href="http://www.law.com/index.shtml" target="new">Law.com</a>. A photograph of the author (jpeg), submitted with the article via e-mail, may be considered for publication.

Please include the following information in both article submissions and queries:

• Your Name
• Title
• Law firm or organization
• Work location
• Short biography (one to two sentences)
• E-mail Address
• Phone Number

If sending a finished draft, please attach the document in Microsoft Word. Send your submissions and queries to Sean Doherty (sean.doherty@incisivemedia.com).

After submitting your article, please allow 1-2 weeks for Sean to review it and contact you. Sean tries to respond to every article submission in a timely manner, but if you do not hear from him within two weeks, please call him at (415) 749-5527.

TECHNOLOGY WHITE PAPERS

To submit white papers for consideration, please send an e-mail with the following information:

• White paper title (max 95 characters including spaces)
• Company name (max 65 characters including spaces)
• One-paragraph abstract describing paper (max 600 characters including spaces)
• URL for white paper (usually a .pdf file)

Note: White paper e-mails without a link to where the white paper is published on your company's Web site will not be considered for publication.

Send your e-mails to Sean Doherty (sean.doherty@incisivemedia.com).

SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS

To submit software downloads for consideration, please send an e-mail with the following information:

• Software title (maximum 65 characters including spaces)
• Software company name (max 65 characters including spaces)
• Download operating system compatibility (e.g., Windows XP, Mac OS X) (max 75 characters including spaces)
• One-sentence description of download's purpose (max 250 characters including spaces)
• URL directly to download (usually, an EXE, MSI, TAR, or ZIP file)
• Trial period info, if any
• Limitations info, if any

Send your e-mails to Sean Doherty (sean.doherty@incisivemedia.com).