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Do You Understand How Money Works? Maybe You Can Be An ATL Columnist?

We're looking for new columnists, so shoot us an email.

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Above the Law is enjoying a good year. Revenue is good, traffic is fantastic, we’re not owned by Tronc, these are all good things.

We are always on the lookout for new columnists. We’ve recently added Shane Ferro, Cori Robinson, and Sean Carter. But we want to open up the opportunities more generally to our readers.

Specifically we’re looking for people who can write about finance, in-house issues, or legal operations.

1. Finance: Sometimes, rich people get sued, and I don’t understand why. Like, I understand why: they’re rich, we should eat them. But I don’t understand why in terms of “here are some laws made specifically to stop this rich jerkoff from doing this jerkoff thing, and here’s how those laws work.” So… if you can sometimes explain that to me, I’d read it. Probably some other people would too.

2. In-House: We have great contributions from people like Mark Herrmann, Stephen R. Williams, and Kay Thrace and… traffic says you guys want more. Try as I might, I’m not getting that job as general counsel for the Mets any time soon, though if I did, I would immediately injure my pre-frontal cortex and be unable to work. But we’re always looking for the perspective of people who hire lawyers.

3. Legal Operations: “Legal Operations is Hot. But Legal Culture is Lukewarm Toward It,” says a Law.com headline. “A decade or so ago, almost nobody would have looked at legal operations (or law department management) as a hot career path,” says Big Law Business. I don’t know what we’re looking for in another Legal Operations columnist in addition to our intrepid legal ops writer, Brad Blickstein… but it better be “hot.” So hot. When I read a legal ops column, I want the heat coming through the screen so hot that I have to reach for an asbestos smock just to protect myself from all the hotness.

4. Also Conservatives, I guess: Above the Law is an equal opportunity employer and we totally hire conservative columnists, provided they can make it through an entire application process without once suggesting that my skin color has seeped into my brain to make me genetically inferior or advocating that peaceful protesters be run down in the street. I know, that’s a pretty high bar for the current GOP, but we try.

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If you’d like to apply for any of these opportunities — or pitch a column concept of your own — please apply by emailing tips@abovethelaw.com (subject line: “Columnist Application”), sending us the following items:

1. A current résumé or bio (a link to an online bio like a firm website profile is fine).

2. A short description of your proposed column, ranging from a paragraph to a page, setting forth your editorial ideas or vision.

3. A sample post or column, ideally from 600 to 1200 words in length, showing us what you’d like to write for us. Please note that this sample post should be new and should be a sample of your proposed ATL column; do not send us previously published work or legal briefs or memos. (Requiring you to write something new is our way of testing your interest level.)

The pay is modest, but we do pay. And if you’re in it for the exposure, you’ve come to the right place. Thanks for reading.

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Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.

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