Our audience

Today’s Family Lawyer is read primarily by family lawyers. Our readership also includes mediators, regulators, charities, members of industry bodies, academics, government agencies, and suppliers to the industry.

With this in mind, we ask contributors to write in a business-to-business style rather than writing for a consumer audience.

Types of contribution

Today’s Family Lawyer publishes a variety of content from a diverse range of contributors.

We write for and about the family law sector, and we’re always keen to hear the news and views of our readers.

There are four main ways to contribute to Today’s Family Lawyer:

• Comment on topical news stories and current affairs: email these to us as soon as possible after the story or event you’re commenting on.
• News, usually in the form of press releases.
• Features exploring topics relevant to the sector, with expert insight to inform our readers.
• Opinion pieces with your thoughts on relevant topics.

The type of submissions we regularly receive and publish include advisory pieces for practitioners, case commentary, updates in the law or processes, discussion surrounding reform, and other commentary about wider trends in the sector our readers will find relevant.

Email us at press@todaysfamilylawyer.co.uk with your ideas – a short pitch (one or two paragraphs or bullet points) is fine. We do our very best to respond to all pitches and submissions.

Listed below are some themes, however these aren’t exhaustive. If you have an idea you’d like to share, please do get in touch – you know better than anyone the topics that are relevant to the sector.

Editorial themes for 2026

• January – Divorce month
• February – Cohabitation – the current position and reform
• March – Surrogacy & fertility
• April – Careers in family law
• May – Out of court dispute resolution ( Mediation/Arbitration/ Private FDRs etc)
• June – Parental alienation
• July – Technology in family law
• August – Legal aid
• September – Domestic abuse
• October – Burnout & wellbeing in conjunction with Mental Health Awareness Week
• November – Anti Money Laundering and wider KYC compliance
• December – 2027 predictions

Technical specifications

Contributors should aim to write in a clear, concise and tight fashion which tells readers what they need to know within the first couple of paragraphs.

The editorial team will edit copy to ensure it aligns with our writing style.

Submissions for features and opinion pieces should be between 600 and 1,000 words, but ideally aim for 800. All features and opinion pieces should include a headline, a standfirst of around 50 words, sub-headings, and a short author biography. Copy should be written in paragraphs, avoiding bullet points and lists.

Today’s Media discourages the wholesale copying and pasting of AI generated content. The editorial team reviews all submissions and will reject content which includes common indicators of AI-generated text. 

If reporting on legal proceedings, contributors must consider reporting restrictions including anonymity and contempt of court. Contributors should avoid making any representations that may be considered defamatory.

Images

All our news items, features and opinion pieces are illustrated with an image. Please share quality, well-composed landscape images with your submissions, sized at 900 x 600 pixels. Images should be free of logos and text.

If you don’t submit an image, we’ll select an appropriate stock image. We can’t guarantee supplied images will be used – they’ll be assessed for relevance and quality – but we do encourage you to submit them.

We also welcome and encourage the use of diagrams and graphs.

Research and data

If your submission includes research or data, please include the source and full results as far as possible. We always check the accuracy of the submissions we receive. Any submissions that refer to figures or data that are not provided or are not easily verified will not be used.

If submitting the results of a survey, please tell us how many people were surveyed and the demographics: for example, legal professionals or members of the public.

Links

We realise links are important for SEO purposes, however, as an independent editorial publication with a specialist audience we don’t routinely include backlinks to contributor websites.

We include links in a limited number of circumstances:

• Within the text if the source is official (for example a government report, or research with relevant statistics) and is necessary to add context to the story.
• At the end of the piece if the story relates to a publication from an official source – again, such as a government report or a new service.
• At the end of the piece if the story is about a piece of research from a reputable source which is in its entirety relevant to our readers.

If we receive research or a survey that has some elements of interest to our readers we cover the relevant parts. If the original source contains information we don’t consider relevant for our readers, such as  advice for consumers, we will select the prescient aspects.

As we’re a specialist B2B publication it’s important to us and our readers that the content we share, and any sites we link to, offer knowledge and insight directly relevant to that specialism. If we routinely share information aimed at consumers or link to sites that aren’t relevant to our readers’ specialisms, we’ll lose the trust of our readers.

This approach helps us to ensure we’re an impartial voice for, and on behalf of, the specialist sectors we write about.

The submissions process

Please send your comments, news, pitches and all other submissions to the press inbox: press@todaysfamilylawyer.co.uk

We send a weekly newsletter to our full subscriber database every Thursday. Any submissions to be considered for inclusion in the weekly newsletter should be received by 5pm on Tuesdays – but bear in mind stories that aren’t time sensitive can be scheduled a week or more in advance.

Enquiries

For all enquiries, email press@todaysfamilylawyer.co.uk. All emails will be seen by the editor or a member of our press team.

If you would like to submit advertorial content or have any other enquiry relating to a partnership, please contact David Opie at david.opie@todaysmedia.co.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you.