Editorial Guidelines

These guidelines keep LexPosts useful for readers and trustworthy for search engines. Submissions that do not meet them will be returned or declined.

Authors

• Authors must be attorneys licensed and in good standing. We verify bar admission before first publication.
• Articles are published under the author’s real name and profile. No ghost-written or agency bylines.
• Authors must disclose any material conflict of interest relevant to the topic.

Content standards

• Original: not published elsewhere, including your firm’s own site.
• Accurate and current: state the jurisdiction when the law varies, and cite statutes or cases where useful.
• Helpful: answer a specific question a reader would actually search for. Use subheadings, short paragraphs and examples.
• Length: 800–2,000 words for most topics.
• Not advertising: no pricing, guarantees of results, testimonials or solicitations. Follow your state’s attorney advertising rules.
• AI tools: you may use them for drafting, but you are responsible for every word. Unedited AI output will be declined.

Editorial team guides

• Guides bylined “LexPosts Editorial Team” are written in-house, researched and drafted with the help of AI tools, and edited by our team. Our editors are not attorneys.
• A guide shows “Legally reviewed by” only when a verified attorney has read and approved it, with the date of that review.
• Editorial guides cover general principles, point out where state law differs, and name the laws and agencies involved so readers can check the source.

Links

• Your author bio and profile link to your firm.
• One contextual link to your firm in the article body is allowed if it is genuinely relevant.
• Other links should point to authoritative sources: statutes, courts, government agencies.
• No links to unrelated commercial sites, and no paid link placements.

Editing and updates

Editors may edit for clarity, structure, style and accuracy, and will check meaning-changing edits with you. We may ask you to update an article when the law changes, and may add an editor’s note or unpublish articles that become outdated.

Corrections

If you spot an error in any article, email hello@lexposts.com. We review every report and note significant corrections on the article.