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Seeking Employment Or IP Lawyers To Write For Our Pages

If you practice in employment or IP law and enjoy writing, we'd like to hear from you.

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Help Wanted Sign on wooden backgroundAs Above the Law has grown, we’ve expanded our coverage to include a number of areas of substantive law, generally generated by lawyers practicing in these different fields. We have, for example, columnists covering assisted reproductive technology (“ART”) law, China law, criminal law, marijuana law, and white-collar criminal law, among other fields.

Next up: employment law and intellectual-property law. We are looking for multiple columnists, ideally practicing lawyers or law professors, to write for Above the Law about these fields. We have covered many employment-related issues over the years — including, but not limited to, lawsuits filed by associates and partners against their law firms — and we’d welcome experts in this area to share their insights. We are also seeking IP expertise, given the close connection between IP and technology, a topic we cover extensively, and given the importance of intellectual-property issues to the economy of the future.

(Note: as we’ve mentioned before, we generally do not accept one-off guest posts. So if you want to write for ATL, becoming a columnist is the way to go.)

Why would you want to write a column for Above the Law? If you know any of our current and former columnists, ask them about the experience. We expect they’ll tell you about how enjoyable and gratifying it is to share their insights with thousands of readers; how they’ve developed new personal and professional relationships, sometimes including client relationships, through their ATL writing; and how fun it is to be a celebrity of sorts in legal circles. (They probably won’t mention the pay, which is modest; if you care about the pay, this probably isn’t the right job for you.)

If you’d like to write an employment- or IP-law column for us, please apply by emailing [email protected] (subject line: “Employment/IP Law Columnist Application”), sending us the following items:

1. A current résumé or bio (a link to an online bio on a law firm or law school website is fine).

2. A short column description and/or statement of interest, describing your proposed column or explaining why you’d like to write for us.

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3. A writing sample. Ideally this would be a sample column of 600 to 1200 words in length, showing us what you’d like to write for us, but we will accept samples of other types as well. You can also send us articles about employment or IP law that you have written for other publications or, if you currently write or blog about this area, a link to your work.

Lawyers work best with deadlines, so here’s the deadline for this project: MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern time).

Please note that we don’t send emails confirming receipt of applications, and we don’t send rejection emails. If you haven’t heard from us within one month of submitting your application, you can assume we’ve gone in a different direction.

Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to hearing from you!

P.S. Please note that these application guidelines are specific to employment and IP law. If you want to pitch us on a different column, please follow our standard application guidelines. Thanks.

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DBL square headshotDavid Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].

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