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Contribute to the Journal

Have your say by contributing letters, details about your latest move, or articles, research, reviews to the Journal.

Letters to the Editor

Send your letter to letters@lawsociety.com.au.

Letters to the Law Society Journal must carry the sender’s name, address and contact phone number. By submitting your letter for publication you agree that we may edit it for legal, space or other reasons and may, after publication in the magazine, republish it on the internet or in other media.

Members on the Move

The 'Members on the Move' section of the Law Society Journal records new principals and partnerships, major legal appointments and honours of members of the Law Society of NSW.
Send details and high resolution colour photos to:
The Editor
Law Society Journal
170 Phillip St, Sydney 2000
DX 362 Sydney
email june.mcgowan@lawsociety.com.au.

For copyright purposes, we will assume that any photograph you provide may be reproduced by us without infringing the copyright of any third party on the basis that we are granted a non-exclusive royalty-free licence (or similar) to use the photograph(s) in any Law Society material and retain any amounts received as a result.

Articles, research, reviews etc.

The Law Society Journal welcomes contributions and will consider for publication original research, reviews of legislation, case analyses and papers on matters of topical interest which deal with the development of law and legal practice.

Your expertise will be shared throughout law practices, universities and government departments and, while you will not receive any payment for your contribution or its reproduction or communication, such exposure may have a positive impact on your professional reputation

Contribution guidelines

• E-mail format and details: If you plan to submit a manuscript by e-mail please attach it to a message which gives your standard postal, phone and fax contacts details. Contributions should be sent to Senior Editor Michelle Lam at michelle.lam@lawsociety.com.au.
• Length: Generally, feature articles in the Law Society Journal should be from 1,000 to 2,500 words. Please contact the editor to discuss any manuscripts which are likely to be longer.
• Citations: Citation of cases, statutes, bills, books, articles etc, should be in full, at least for the first mention. For instance, Trade Practices Act 1974, rather than simply Trade Practices Act; Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, not merely Donoghue v Stevenson.
• Quotes: Quoted speech should be indicated with double quote marks (" ..."). Ambiguous, emphasised, unusual, etc, words, should be placed within single quotes ('...') or rendered in italics.
• Biographical details: Authors should supply a short biographical detail including, where appropriate, their position, firm or organisation, significant affiliations and publications, and if they were involved in any case discussed in the article.
• Author photo: Authors should supply a recent, colour head and shoulders portrait in electronic format and high resolution. We will be entitled to assume that any photograph you provide may be reproduced by us without infringing the copyright of any third party on the basis that we are granted a non-exclusive royalty-free licence (or similar) to use the photograph(s) in any Law Society material and retain any amounts received as a result.
• Style Guide: The Law Society Journal uses the first preferred option of the Macquarie Dictionary as its guide to spelling and refers to the latest edition of the Style Manual published by the Australian Government Publishing Service for other English usage and technical style matters.