Minnesota Law & Politics, Washington Law & Politics, and Super Lawyer magazines
Address:(Super Lawyer serves various states - see list below), 220 S. Sixth St., Suite 500
Minneapolis, MN 55402
USA
Contact: Steve Kaplan, Editor.
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Website: http://www.lawandpolitics.com
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Description of Publication:
100% freelance. Minnesota Law & Politics serves lawyers in a way that is atypical among law publications. Rather than create a magazine that lawyers feel they must read -- lawyers' desks are piled high with material they feel they must read -- we have tried to create a publication they want to read. To that end, we have created an editorial mix that relies heavily on political, as well as legal, topics -- politics being the handmaiden of law -- and other general interest 'thought' articles. We write all our articles, even those dealing with matters of the law, as if addressing an intelligent lay audience and so we have attracted that audience as well, an enthusiastic non-legal readership as evidenced by newsstand sales, paid subscriptions and a buzz in the political and general community. We only work with local writers: for Minnesota L&P and for Washington L&P that means only writers who live in the respective state. Same thing goes for Super Lawyer magazines: if we publish in your state, we will consider hiring you only if you live in the state. We will publish Super Lawyer magazines in the following states (or areas) this year: Texas, Los Angeles, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and San Francisco. For Super Lawyer magazines, we only publish experienced magazine feature writers. Circ: Minnesota L&P and Washington L&P are both around 20,000; The Super Lawyer magazines vary according to the size of the geographic area they're serving. L&P: Six issues/year. Super Lawyer: Once a year; twice a year in Texas. Payment times vary with the writer's skill level and whether or not they gave us an idea. We generally pay inside Writer's Union guidelines. Period between acceptance and publication varies. Buys first rights. Rarely accepts reprints. Responds never longer than a few months. Usually much quicker. Sample not available. Subscription details at website. Guidelines not available. Reading the magazine is the best guide. Friction Zone
Current Needs: We ALWAYS need original stories about the law or politics, and they ALWAYS have to be locally focused. Submit query by email.
Pay: Pays $100+.
Hints: Both Minnesota Law and Politics and Washington Law & Politics are intensely, parochially local in their orientations. We don't want or need any article that is not local. The same holds true for Super Lawyer publications. We like humor and in fact say that our magazine stands for Gravity & Levity in all our articles.
Photos/Art: Handled in-house.
