Slaw Information

Slaw is Canadian, co-operative, and about any and all things legal. Since 2005, Slaw.ca has been Canadas online legal magazine, written by and for the Canadian law community: lawyers, librarians, technologists, marketers, students, educators and everyone in between. With perspectives from academia, law firms, non-profits, regulatory bodies and beyond, Slaw explores how law is practised, how its taught, how the industry is changing, and what the future might hold. Slaw is considered essential daily reading by many in Canadian legal circles. With more than 2 million visits per year , our readers make up a loyal, curious, and engaged community. Simply put, Slaw is both its writers and its readers. Its a community. Our model as a legal publisher is a bit unconventional, but it works. Our contributors are recruited from across Canada (and around the globe) because of their expertise and interest in writing about the law. Over the course of the last thirteen years, weve steadily grown, both in our range of topics and number of contributors. As of early 2018, we routinely operate with a crew of twenty-one weekly bloggers and sixty bi-monthly columnists . While many of our core writers remain Canadian, we have also strategically recruited expert contributors from beyond our borders. Mostly from other common law countries, of course, but our authorship also reflects a few ex-pat Canadians and a various subject experts willing to share their insights on the practice of law. Slaws audience primarily consists of lawyers, law librarians, and those working in or studying law. Our aim has always been consistent: to share knowledge, to offer advice and instruction, and to provoke smart conversations. The proof is in the numbers: readers have posted nearly nearly 20,000 approved comments on more than 15,000 entries. All told, Slaw draws a million page views every month. (If youre interested in a deeper dive on our numbers, we invite you to check out our readership survey .) The overwhelming success of Slaw is something that ...