Contribute

Do you write about the law? If so, please share your expertise on FreeLegalWeb.

Who can contribute?

Anyone may contribute! The aim is, over time, to build up a corpus of legal guidance and commentary equivalent to what is found in standard legal textbooks and we are therefore primarily encouraging qualified lawyers and legal academics to contribute. However, we wish to be as inclusive as possible and not to discourage anyone else who is willing and able to make a valid and useful contribution to the project.

What should I contribute?

There’s more than enough news, updates, comment and law-lite published on blogs, law firm brochure sites, self-help sites and forums and the web at large. That’s part of the problem. What we’d like to attract are the more substantive and enduring texts you’ve written (or are planning) that explain the law – articles, case notes and guides on legal topics. Serious stuff that will help others understand the law and build your reputation as one who knows their onions.

How can I contribute?

If you already publish suitable articles on a blog or website, just let us know that you’d like to share these on FreeLegalWeb and we’ll set up a suitable syndication channel.

Or you can post your articles directly to FreeLegalWeb and maintain them here.

Our Pilot project is focussed on Housing law, but we’ll be progressing rapidly to develop other areas including family, criminal, employment, immigration …

Why should I contribute?

If you need persuasion, here’s some of the benefits FreeLegalWeb will offer you:

  • An effective channel for promoting your expertise and for gaining professional recognition.
  • A hosted publishing service for your more enduring and worthy writings, with an easy-to-use, blog-like interface and import and export facilities.
  • Full author profiling, including your specialisms, qualifications, positions, association memberships, websites, social networks, publications and case representations.
  • Automatic cross-referencing to all primary law sources and many secondary law sources cited in your articles.

(Allow us a while to put this all in place.)

I’m game … what next?

If you’d like to contribute, please just email contact@freelegalweb.org to register. Advise your preferred username and tell us what you want to write about.