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Publication Resources for Law Librarians

Carol Bannen composed the original version of the following annotated alphabetical list of publications and publishers contact information. Please forward information on other publications and publishers for inclusion in this list to the current page editor, James Donovan, at jdonovan@uga.edu.

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AMERICAN CITY BUSINESS JOURNALS

Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. It operates the Web sites for each of the company's 41 print business journals and operates a web-only site with local business news and information for Los Angeles.  Especially open to submissions of the "press release" variety.

Contact Information:

http://www.bizjournals.com/about us/help. html

  Examples of Legal Services News

 

AMERICAN LAWYER MEDIA (Incisive Media Brand)

Bylined material and submissions (adapted from the web site)
The vast majority of articles in The American Lawyer are reported and written by journalists on staff. The magazine rarely publishes analyses of legal and industry changes written by outside experts or lawyers. Guest-writer opportunities include:

• Management columns by professional staff, consultants, or law firm managers on important trends in legal management.
• Law office technology advice or analysis by experts (lawyers, staff, consultants, or vendors).

• Intellectual property trends.

• The Arguments column, which covers important developments in public policy.

• Book reviews of recently published non-fiction of interest to our audience (but not highly technical practice books).
  

Such columns and stories are usually 600 to 1,500 words. Authors should submit written queries (a proposal abstract)­ to editorial@amlaw.com. If American Lawyer Media is interested, an editor will discuss the query with the author before the topic is finalized and the article is written. The magazine occasionally publishes other types of bylined articles by lawyers. As with other story ideas, it is best to propose the idea via e-mail to editorial@amlaw.com. Articles and columns are generally commissioned months in advance of publication and all writers must sign contributors' contracts.

ALM encourages prospective authors to also consider other American Lawyer Media national and regional publications. A complete listing of ALM publications and links to further information, including editorial calendars, can be found at http://www.alm.com/snapshot.asp:

Magazines:

• The American Lawyer

• American Lawyer Student Edition

• AmLaw Tech

• Corporate Counsel

• Executive Legal Adviser

• GC New England

• In-House Texas

• IP Magazine

• Law Firm Inc.

• Law Technology News (see below)

• The Minority Law Journal

Newspapers:

• Connecticut Law Tribune

• Delaware Law Weekly

• Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia)

• Legal Times (DC)

• National Law Journal

• New Jersey Law Journal

• New York Law Journal

• Pennsylvania Law Weekly

• The Recorder (San Francisco)

• Texas Lawyer

 

Submission guidelines:

http://www.americanlawyer.com/guidelines/

Editorial Calendar:

         http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/tal/tal_cal_2008.pdf

        Sample article written by a law librarian:

         That'll Be $500 For My Time by Virginia L. Smith, Legal Times (July 2005)

 

ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL ADMINISTRATORS

Co-sponsor of Professional Legal Management Week which "provides a forum for recognizing those in legal management for what they do and the role they play in the success of the organization, and in its service to its clients and those who work in the organization." Also has a number of state and local chapters which often publish their own journals.

Contact Information:

Local chapter listings available online at http://www.alanet.org/gateway/chaptersites.html

Editorial Calendar:

http://www.alanet.org/publications/PDF/LegalMgt-2008EdCal.pdf

Sample article written by law librarian:

Billing for Online Legal Research: Options, Options, Options by Carol Bannen, Wisconsin Association Legal Administrators Class Action Newsletter (Fall 2005)

BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNALS

          Contact Information:
                     Local Bar Associations are listed online
              

  State Bar Association Publications:

Alabama	Hawaii	Massachusetts	New Mexico	South Dakota
Alaska	Idaho	Michigan	New York	Tennessee
Arizona	Illinois	Minnesota	NC State Bar NC Bar Assoc.	Texas
Arkansas	Indiana	Mississippi	North Dakota	Utah
California	Iowa	Missouri	Ohio	Vermont
Colorado	Kansas	Montana	Oklahoma	VA State Bar VA Bar Assoc.
Connecticut	Kentucky	Nebraska	Oregon	Washington
Delaware	Louisiana	Nevada	Pennsylvania	WV State Bar WV Bar Assoc.
Florida	Maine	New Hampshire	Rhode Island	Wisconsin
Georgia	Maryland	New Jersey	South Carolina	Wyoming

Sample articles written by law librarians:

                Virginia Lawyer (December 2005) includes eight articles written by members of VALL
                The Trials and Tribulations of Internet Research by Lee Peoples, Oklahoma Ba r Journal

       (November 19, 2005)
                The True Gen: Truth and the Internet by Alvin Podboy, Cleveland Bar Journal (October 2005)
                To Google or Not To Google? Different Web Research Tactics by Dianne Duffy, Wisconsin Law

        Journal (October 5, 2005)

 
KNOW: THE MAGAZINE FOR PARALEGALS

A new magazine, KNOW is being billed as “an outside-the-box, informative magazine balancing workstyle and life balance for paralegals.” The magazine promises to offer paralegal profiles, latest news, trends, tips, important case law and expert advice. The magazine’s founders are Chere B. Estrin, CEO of Estrin LegalEd and Founder of The Paralegal SuperConferences, and Jeannie Johnston, founder of ParalegalGateway.com.

          Contact Information:
               E-mail: chere@knowparalegal.com
               Phone: 888-803-8807
               Mail: 11271 Ventura Blvd. #411, Studio City, CA 91604

LAW OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

Law Office Administrator is a professional monthly newsletter aimed at the managers of law firms. It covers all the information an administrator needs to know to manage the practice. The editor is Bill Kimbro.

          Contact Information:
              E-mail: billkimbro@ardmorepublishing.com
              Phone: 404-367-1991
              Mail: Ardmore Publishing Company, 1800 Peachtree St. NW, Suite 335
              Atlanta, GA 30355

LAW OFFICE MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION REPORT

Law Office Management & Administration Report (LOMAR) monthly is one of IOMA's best-recognized newsletters. LOMAR covers the daily management concerns relevant for law firm administrators, office managers, and others.

Contact Information: 
        E-mail: http://www.ioma.com/custserv/
        Phone: 212-244-0360
        Fax: 212-564-0465
        Mail: IOMA Inc., 3 Park Avenue, 30th Floor, NY, NY 10016-5902

LAW PRACTICE MAGAZINE

Law Practice Magazine of the ABA Law Practice Management section covers all aspects of mastering the business of practicing law. Articles offer experienced insight and fresh advice on marketing, management, technology and finance.

Contact Information:
         Email: lpm-articles@abanet.org

Submission guidelines:
         http://www.abanet.org/lpm/magazine/mag_writeforus.shtml

LAW PRACTICE TODAY 

From the ABA Law Practice Management Section. Articles about issues that face every type of lawyer in today's practice arena. Solos, corporate counsel, managing partners, starting associates, or even paralegals. We want stories from the legal trenches. The topics that are burning a hole through your desk. Do you have a success story about a new technology your firm just implemented? What about one that failed? Do you have a successful solution to solo billing matters? What is the newest issues facing all types of lawyers from Capitol Hill? We are looking for articles that will educate readers about issues that they can use today, tomorrow, or even next week. We are looking for big picture articles as well as specific topics. Checklists and how-to articles are great content for Law Practice Today.

Submission guidelines:

http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/contribute/

For more than 10 years, Law Technology News has helped lawyers and their organizations be more productive, more competitive, more effective and more cost-efficient. Today, the magazine has the largest circulation of any legal technology publication and is read and trusted by purchasing decision-makers at law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies. AALL member Al Podboy is on the editorial board.         

Contact Information:
         E-mail: lawtech@alm.com or http://www.alm.com/emailContact.asp?id=78
         Phone: 800-537-2128 ext. 9008 or 212-313-9008
         Mail: 105 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10016

Legal Assistant Today offers information pertaining to paralegals on legal practices and developments, practical advice and "how-to" articles to help its readers achieve career goals, coverage of national regulation and licensure efforts, news, trends, professional event happenings, colorful and informative pieces on unique areas and persons in the profession and sound advice for becoming more efficient in the workplace.

Contact Information:
          E-mail: http://www.legalassistanttoday.com/contact_us/contact_us_form.asp?type=editorial or editorlat@jamespublishing.com
          Phone: 714-755-5468
          Fax: 714-751-5508
          Mail: Legal Assistant Today, P.O. Box 25202, Santa Ana, CA, 92799-5202

Sample column articles written by a law librarian:
            Making Research Easier: What is New on LexisNexis and Westlaw by Mark A. Gediman, Legal Assistant Today (January/February 2006)
            The Best Federal Web Sites: Easy Access to Government Information is Just a Click Away by Mark A. Gediman, Legal Assistant Today (Sept./Oct. 2005)
          Books vs. Bytes: Which Works Best in Today's Law Firm Library? by Mark A. Gediman, Legal Assistant Today (May/June 2005)

LLRX.com, established in 1996, is the premier free webzine for law, business, news, and special librarians, lawyers, researchers, paralegals, law students and members of the legal profession (whether they work in IT, management, KM or any one of a range of expert capacities), on leveraging the best of the web, its resources, services and vast communities, to enhance your work. LLRX.com's articles focus on areas that include: reviews, commentary and analysis of services, products, tools, gadgets and applications that facilitate research, departmental and office related management and communications, marketing and client development within and outside the enterprise, knowledge management, training and presentations.

Submission Guidelines:
           http://www.llrx.com/submit.htm

Contact Information:
           Editor: Sabrina Pacifici
           E-mail: editor@llrx.com

PRLAW is a monthly newsletter aimed at the "pocketbook" concerns of managing partners, shareholders and others with an ownership stake in a law firm. This report keeps partners up to date on salary guidelines and benefits, as well as provide the reader with tips on increasing profit margins and exercising leadership skills.

Contact Information:
        E-mail: http://www.ioma.com/custserv/
        Phone: 212-244-0360
        Fax: 212-564-0465
        Mail: IOMA Inc., 3 Park Avenue, 30th Floor, NY, NY 10016-5902