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All lawyers grow up and get through college reading iPleaders blog, people love and respect it
Law firms also need to blog
And get traffic - it’s increasingly an important strategy to have inbound traffic
You don’t need “novel argument” or “novel research” - you need traffic more than everything else
This is fantasy
If you are active on social media you will end up getting to know lawyers who can recommend you
People who write regularly on ipleaders blog have more footprint, its easier to publish (because they have an active team that responds in reasonable amount of time) and then you showcase that article on your social media - people will read it and it increases your face value
Publishing one article in some academic journal that nobody will read will not get you placed
Their only requirement is that the article has to be most exhaustive on a given topic, not AI generated or plagiarised content, no long intros that blabber on - dive direct to the point
And they pay you if you submit such content
Whatever you write, it’s important that it gets in front of people
Unless you are an academic
If you want to be a successful lawyer don’t listen to academics
Write on platforms where your potential clients or recruiters will read your content
That includes popular blogs and LinkedIn
Even twitter
It ranks on google on almost all legal topics
2.5 million monthly readers, gets you in front of potential clients as well
Don’t be myopic and elitist at the same time, bad for your career :)
Reach out to Vanshika Kapoor in linkedin or twitter if you want to write regularly
livelaw used to publish unsolicited articles but now very hard - still worth a shot
Btw the journal is "LusPorpus Law Journal", IJL______ (insert anything here) These journals on LinkedIn are ruining first years by making them delusional. The students just copy-paste things from ChatGPT then add some citations from JSTOR or other sources, paraphrase the plagiarized text shown by Turnitin using quillBot and poof! you're getting published in a "peer reviewed journal".
Btw, which are these scam journals which you are referring to? Just curious.
Please refrain from mentioning those 1000rs publication journals that publishes chatgpt content.