Lawyers and law firms publish constantly—blogs, alerts, insights, white papers, newsletters.
What’s changing with AI isn’t whether lawyers publish.
It’s how that publishing is found, trusted, and used.
Not just by open LLMs—but inside legal research platforms, where AI is increasingly helping interpret primary law.
Where legal writing lives now matters.
Publishing that exists only in a feed or on a firm website is easy to lose:
- Redesigned away
- Outdated and deleted
- Gone when a lawyer leaves a firm
When that happens, authority is lost.
In legal publishing networks and digital libraries, writing lasts.
It’s archived with stable URLs, authorship, and structure—so it can travel into legal research platforms and be used where law is actually researched.
That structure matters to AI, too.
Authority signals—durability, attribution, consistency—carry more weight than content marketing.
Lawyers have always published. Traditionally, that publishing lived in law libraries, and libraries conferred authority.
In the age of AI, we’re coming full circle.