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Seeking Legal Operations And Law Department Management Pros To Write For ATL

If you're well-versed in legal operations and law department management, 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 employment law, IP law, assisted reproductive technology (“ART”) law, criminal law, marijuana law, and white-collar criminal law, among other fields.

Next up: legal operations and law department management. We are looking for multiple columnists, ideally practicing lawyers (or legal services professionals who are legal ops pros), working either in law firms or in-house, to write for Above the Law about these hot career paths. We’d welcome experts in this area to share their insights about what makes law firms and law departments tick.

(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 a legal operations or law department management column for us, please apply by emailing tips@abovethelaw.com (subject line: “Legal Operations 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 legal operations and law department management 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: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 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 legal operations and law department management. If you want to pitch us on a different column, please follow our standard application guidelines. Thanks.

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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