The American Bar Association (ABA) Young Lawyers Division (YLD) publications include TYL, After the Bar (ATB), and TYL Monthly. All YLD publications are designed to be professional development tools for lawyers under the age of 36 or admitted to practice for 10 years or less.
The ABA is a member-driven organization, and all digital content is member-protected. It is NOT open to the general public.
TYL is the ABA YLD’s flagship publication designed to deliver specific, practical, evergreen content and information to help early career lawyers advance professionally and grow personally. TYL is not a law review or a scholarly journal.
All TYL content must appeal to and inform the broader base of young lawyer members across the country under the age of 36 or admitted to practice for 10 years or less.
After the Bar is a digital publication designed to help new graduates and newly licensed lawyers navigate the transition from law student to lawyer and to guide them through the early stages of their legal careers. After the Bar focuses on professional development, ethics, how to network, manage finances, choose a specialty, and survive and thrive in today’s law office or legal environment.
After the Bar content is specifically for new graduates and 0–2 associates.
TYL Monthly is a monthly email that goes to all young lawyer members. It contains content from TYL and After the Bar. TYL Monthly mails on the last Wednesday of every month.
You will work with at least one editor to develop the article to conform to the article's concept and purpose, author guidelines, and editing standards (including word limits). Article revisions will be necessary and will take place over several rounds of editing.
In general, TYL and ATB follow the Chicago Manual of Style and Merriam-Webster. The editorial board will edit all articles to conform to the best practices listed above.
Author information is included with your article via your ABA member ID. If you are an ABA member, please log into MyABA and upload a bio and a headshot. That will appear on your article page.
If you are not an ABA member, you can still have your photo and bio appear with your article for free by submitting the following information with your article:
You will receive various deadlines (e.g., first draft, subsequent draft, final deadline, etc.). You must meet these deadlines or contact your article editor ASAP to work out alternative arrangements. Late articles may not be published due to editing constraints.
An editor will inform you of the article's length; however, generally, article length depends on the subject. We want you to cover the topic thoroughly and concisely. The longer the article, the more substantive subheads and bulleted lists are required to keep content engaging to online readers. All articles must contain subheads.
The editorial board reserves the right to edit submitted drafts for clarity, conciseness, style, and length. You are solely responsible for the content’s accuracy and completeness. However, your editor will clear with you any major editorial revisions affecting your article’s substance before it is published. The editorial board determines publication schedules.
The editorial board reserves the right to refuse to publish any article. Your submission of an article does not constitute official acceptance for publication.
Before an article can be published, each (co-)author must submit a signed ABA copyright agreement to the editorial board (or a current one must already be on file with the ABA). When submitting an article, you grant the ABA an irrevocable option to acquire certain property rights in your article. Specifically, you grant the ABA the right of first publication and the right to nonexclusive copyright of the work in accordance with the standard ABA copyright agreement. Read more about your rights and the ABA’s.
You will not receive any remuneration for submitting an article.
If you have further questions, please communicate with the ABA Young Lawyers Division Staff Editor: Lindsay Cummings.
