r/LawFirm rules, stats, and what to post

r/LawFirm is a community for lawyers who practice solo or in a small firm, meaning lawyers who do not have the support network of a large firm behind them. The description says the focus is the business and practice of law, not legal analysis or substantive case discussion. People here talk about attorney-to-attorney referrals, knowledge sharing, business and marketing tips, and general support for running a small practice. If you post, you are talking to practitioners about how they run their work, not to people looking for legal help.

Four rules decide everything here, and all of them point the same direction. “Spam or self-promotion” bans posts made to promote your company or website and bans posting your blog or article, so any link to your own content is out. “Asking for legal advice” keeps legal questions out of the sub, which matters if you were thinking of framing a post around a legal scenario. “Market research” bans using the community to research a product or service you are developing or hoping to market, which is the rule most likely to catch a founder running a survey. “No Job Postings” bans both hiring and looking for work, so skip recruiting angles entirely.

A good post here reads like a practitioner talking to other practitioners about the business of running a small firm. Share a concrete lesson from operating a practice, like how you handle client intake, pricing, referrals, or marketing, and keep it as plain text with no links. Ask a genuine question about how other solo or small firm lawyers handle a business problem you are facing. If you build tools for lawyers, you can talk about the problem space in conversation, but the post itself cannot exist to promote your company, and you cannot link your blog or article. The safest shape is experience plus a question, written so it would still be useful if your product never came up.

The fastest way to get removed is to promote. Do not create a post with the purpose of promoting your company or website, and do not post your blog or article, because the rules ban both. Do not ask for legal advice here, since the community says that belongs with a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction. Do not use the sub for market research on a product or service you are developing or hoping to market. Do not post job listings, whether you are hiring or looking to be hired.

This is one of the clearest rule sets I have read, and the description does something smart by saying upfront that it is not for legal analysis or case discussion. That tells you the room is about running a practice, not arguing law, so your post should sound like a colleague swapping business lessons. I also notice there are no observed top posts for this community in our data, which usually means the safest play is to read the room for a while before you write anything. If your product is for lawyers, treat this as a place to learn the language they use, not a place to launch.