Own your legal identity online.
A professional home of your own. Your profile, credentials, and writing in one place, built so clients, search engines, and AI assistants can find you, understand who you are, and cite your work.
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Your online presence is scattered.
Today, a legal professional’s identity online is spread across places that don’t talk to each other. A firm bio, a LinkedIn profile, directory listings, bar pages, old bylines. Each shows a piece of you, and nothing connects them.
publish.law brings it together in one place that’s yours. Your profile, credentials, and writing under your own name and domain, structured so search engines and AI can tie every signal back to you.
Profile, like LinkedIn
Photo, bio, credentials, experience, education, and social links all on one page that's yours. Visible to clients and search engines, without the paywalls or feed algorithms of a walled-garden profile.
Publishing, like Substack
Notes for the quick stuff: a thought, a link, the kind of thing you’d email a colleague anyway. And full posts, when you want them, for long-form built to rank and get cited.
Reader, like Feedly
Follow other legal publishers, and add public feeds from a curated, growing library. Their posts and notes land in one chronological feed — no algorithm deciding what you see, no rage bait.
Your full professional record, on one page.
Employment, bar admissions, education, awards — the substance behind your name, laid out cleanly on a site that’s yours. Easy for clients and search engines to read at a glance.
- Your own domain — yourname.com, or a free publish.law address.
- A clear, CV-style layout — grouped and ordered, easy for a client to scan.
- No paywall, no feed algorithm deciding who sees you.
- Hosted, fast, and mobile-ready — nothing to set up or maintain.
Share your thoughts and updates.
Notes are the everyday kind of publishing: a quick thought, a link worth passing along, an update on a case or a shift in your field. Each takes a couple of minutes, posts to your site, and lands in your followers’ feeds — keeping you in front of clients and prospects, referral sources, and colleagues.
- Short by design — a few lines, and you’re done.
- Drop in a link — it becomes a preview card automatically.
- Seen in two places — on your site, and in your followers’ feeds.
- Share to LinkedIn — push a note to your LinkedIn feed as you post it.
Keep up with your field, without the noise.
Follow other legal publishers on publish.law, and add public feeds from a curated, growing library. Posts and notes land in one chronological feed — the writing that matters to your practice, with nothing injected to keep you scrolling.
- Follow legal publishers on publish.law.
- Add public feeds from a curated library — hand-picked, and growing weekly.
- Strictly chronological — no algorithm, no rage bait.
Everything else
Custom domain
ProPut your site on yourname.com instead of a publish.law address. SSL and setup handled for you.
Contact
ProA contact form and an inquiry inbox, so clients can reach you directly.
Appearance
ProCurated color palettes and type pairings. A designed look, with zero design work.
Posts
Pro+Long-form articles with the structured markup search engines and AI need to find and cite them.
Categories
Pro+Group posts into topic hubs with pillar pages, the site structure search engines and AI rely on.
Newsletter
Pro+Email new posts to your subscribers, and keep your whole audience in one place.
Navigation
Pro+A primary menu above your masthead and secondary links in your footer, arranged how you like.
Pages
Pro+Standalone pages for anything that isn't a post, wired into your site navigation.
Real sites, built on publish.law
You won't need a tech person.
Signing up takes a couple of minutes. A guided wizard walks you through your photo, bio, and first credential, then your dashboard keeps a running checklist so you always know what's next. No code, no plugins, no support ticket.
- No credit card required — start free, and upgrade only if you ever want to.
- A guided setup wizard — confirm a few details and your site is live.
- A dashboard checklist — it tracks what's left so nothing slips.
Credentials anyone can verify.
Every credential on your site links to the organization that issued it. When that issuer has OLPN-enabled the credential, the resolver at olpn.org compares what you publish against the issuer’s own record, confirming the connection runs both ways. As AI-generated content floods the web, a credential that verifies at the source is worth far more than one that’s merely claimed.
OLPN — the Open Legal Publishing Network — is an open protocol any credential issuer can implement. No membership, no gatekeeper, no company in the middle. It’s decentralized by design, because the legal graph shouldn’t belong to any single company — not LinkedIn, not Martindale, not FindLaw, not whatever comes next.
Run a firm, a bar association, or a publishing platform? The publish.law team can assist you with OLPN implementation, free of charge. Contact us to get started.