Own your legal identity online.
A professional home that’s yours, not your firm’s. 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 short thoughts and link drops; long-form posts for the writing that ranks in Google, gets cited by AI answer engines, brings in direct leads, and grows your referral network.
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 whole professional self, in one place.
Photo, bio, credentials, the social links you actually use — one polished page on your own domain. Substack-clean, fast, and built to be read by clients and search engines alike.
- Your own domain — yourname.com, or a free publish.law address.
- Banner, headshot, and bio — plus your location and the social links you actually use.
- Credentials laid out like a CV — employment, bar admissions, education, awards.
- No paywall, no feed algorithm deciding who sees you.
- Hosted, fast, and mobile-ready — nothing to set up or maintain.
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Posts are a Pro+ feature.
Publish writing that gets found.
A clean editor — title, image, formatting, publish. Every post ships with the structured markup that search engines and AI answer engines need to find it, understand it, and cite it.
- Indexed and citable — Article JSON-LD, RSS, and a sitemap, generated for every post.
- Built for AI answers — structured so answer engines quote you, not just rank you.
- One-click LinkedIn share — push a post to your feed the moment it goes live.
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, included
Appearance
ProCurated color palettes and type pairings. A designed look, with zero design work.
Newsletter
Pro+Email new posts to your subscribers, and keep your whole audience in one place.
Import & export
SoonMove a Ghost or WordPress site in, and take everything with you whenever you want.
Contact
ProA contact form and an inquiry inbox, so clients can reach you directly.
Categories
Pro+Group posts into topic hubs with pillar pages, the site structure search engines and AI rely on.
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, from a bar admission to a contributor byline, can be traced back to the organization that issued it. Instead of an unverifiable line on a profile, it becomes a claim anyone can check. A client, a colleague, or an AI assistant can independently confirm it. publish.law sets this up for you automatically, with nothing to configure or maintain.
This runs on OLPN, the Open Legal Publishing Network. It's an open protocol that lets any legal organization publish a public record of the credentials it has issued. The resolver at olpn.org does the checking, fetching both your identity and the issuer's and confirming the back-links in each direction. No central authority, no walled garden.