Despite what you might think you do not have to be a lawyer to post legal regulatory articles online. As long as you are not giving legal advice you are good to go. Further, you should not assume that lawyers, or attorneys know more than you do when it comes to legal regulatory issues, as you are both reading from the same codes, rules, and regulations.
Additionally, despite their facade, not all lawyers are as intelligent as they purport. They have just spent a lot of time in school studying legal issues and law; much of which will have absolutely no bearing on their actual chosen professional legal niche. As a retired franchisor founder, having actually run a company, I can tell you that I had become intimately familiar with all the legal regulations surrounding our industry.
To further my understanding, I belonged to a list-serve from the ABA where all the franchise lawyers came to meet and talk. I was actually quite blown away to find, more often than not, I knew more than they did, and since I ran a company I knew the ramifications of each chess move far better than they.
Thus, if you are going to Write Legal Regulatory Articles you need to write from the entrepreneur or business man’s point of view, not from the legal point of view. The people who will be reading your article are those that are engaged in the actual industry, they are not lawyers and quite frankly most of them can’t stand the lawyers that they have to overpay each time they have a legal question.
This is very important and something that most attorneys don’t understand. They actually believe that they are smarter than everyone else; but in reality only a few are, the rest are merely faking it and charging us $450-$600 an hour to prove it. I hope you will please consider this, because it took a little while for me to see the light.