Executive Counsel Writer Guidelines

Executive Counsel magazine publishes articles for an audience of CEOs, CFOs, general counsel and board members of major corporations. Many of our readers are lawyers, but articles should be written for business-savvy non-attorney readers who want to understand the law and key management issues as a way to both avoid trouble and devise profitable business strategies. Articles should not be legalistic or laden with jargon from any discipline, and they will not be accepted if they are essentially marketing pieces. Authors should be senior level practitioners. At least one co-author of any article from a law firm needs to be a partner.

Please submit articles as an attached document in Word or Wordperfect.
Length: 1500 words maximum unless other arrangements are made.

Re style:

• No footnotes or other academic-style references.
  If the information is essential, it should be worked it into the text in a readable journalistic style.
• No legal case citations.
  If you need to refer to a case, use the common name. Provide date, court, etc. only if it’s crucial information in the context of the article and as part of a sentence, rather than in legal-cite format.

PLEASE KEEP FORMATTING PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

• No justified text.
• No color text, no boxed text, no outlines.
• No font changes.
• No spacing or margin changes.
• No bold.
• Keep italics for emphasis to a minimum.
• “Bullets” are okay but please use a dash instead or whatever your word-processing program puts down as a bullet.
• If you include charts, graphs or other graphics, please send them in a separate file.

Executive Counsel magazine acquires rights to the edited article as published, with magazine logo, headline and sub-heads, and all elements of graphic presentation. Reprints, reprint rights and posting rights are available only through Foster Printing Service. (Download PDF here.) Authors retain rights to their unedited original work, as submitted to us, and may post it on their web sites, with or without noting that a version of the article appeared in Executive Counsel magazine.

We look forward to your contribution.

- Executive Counsel editors
Email: Editor@executivecounsel.info