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ABA Journal submission guidelines and market information

ABA Journal Submission Guidelines

Submission Address

The Lawyer's Magazine
American Bar Association
321 N. Clark St.
Chicago IL 60610

Phone: (312)988-6018

Fax: (312)988-6014

Editor: Debra Cassens Weiss, managing editor

Submitting Your Work to ABA Journal

Before submitting to ABA Journal

The Market List recommends you verify the market is active and accepting submissions before sending your manuscript via regular mail. You may verify a market status by either visiting their website, calling their listed phone number, or comfirming via regular mail that the market is still active before sending them your work.

To be sure your submission is appropriate for this market, we recommend you familiarize yourself with ABA Journal by reading a sample issue before submitting.

If you have recently submitted to ABA Journal or have experience with this market, please submit a comment below. Recent submission response times are always welcome and helpful to other writers.

From the ABA Journal guidelines:

Submission Guidelines Details for ABA Journal

Market Type:Magazine

Contact: Debra Cassens Weiss, managing editor

Accepts:

Web Address: www.abajournal.com

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From the Guidelines

The ABA Journal will consider queries from professional writers or from potential sources on subjects that might be of interest to our readers. If you are interested in writing for the ABA Journal, we urge you to include your resumé and published clips when you contact us with story ideas. Our stories require that writers use outside research, that they interview multiple sources and experts on the subjects they cover and present a fair and balanced view of controversial topics. We don’t publish academic-type papers or law journal articles.

The ABA Journal also wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, nonpromotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors to run in the Your Voice and Mind Your Business sections of our website, ABAJournal.com.

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