Editorial Policy

Legalicious Editorial Policy

Effective 8 October 2026. Supplements the Terms of Service.

Our audience is lawyers and the founders who hire them. Both are entitled to know exactly how this works.

Where a feature described below is unavailable, its provisions apply when it is offered. The Participation Agreement and accepted Enrollment govern participant rights and prevail in a conflict.

1. Money and editorial

Faculty Counsel and firms enrolled as Faculty Firm pay a participation fee. Guest Contributors pay nothing and appear by invitation.

Participation buys presence and production, not editorial control.

What a fee does not buy:

- the questions we ask, or the topics we cover; - the Style Spectrum score a participant receives; - casting or appearance order beyond any Firm Series entitlement expressly stated in an accepted Enrollment; - how a video is edited, beyond the participant's approval right over their own video; - what else we publish, including content on the same topic by a different lawyer; - any promise of prominence, frequency or duration of feature.

What a fee buys is the production, publication, profile, distribution and sharing rights set out in the participant’s Participation Agreement and applicable Enrollment, subject to its participation, approval and payment conditions. Audience reporting is as stated in the applicable Enrollment; no additional dashboard or reporting frequency is promised.

Advertising disclosures where appropriate. Legalicious applies “Attorney Advertising” labels where appropriate to the content and its use under applicable professional rules, using the same assessment for paid and Guest appearances. Required labels accompany the relevant profiles, videos, clips and promotional versions on screen and in descriptions as appropriate, including syndicated versions. Non-lawyer appearances are not automatically attorney advertising. Professional roles must be accurately identified. Separate sponsorship, material-connection and jurisdiction-specific disclosures remain additional.

2. Educational content and advertising rules

Educational contributions must not include sales pitches or invitations to engage the lawyer or firm. This restriction applies to answers explaining legal topics; compliant profile introductions and name/firm credits remain allowed. Educational videos and profiles may still constitute attorney advertising under applicable rules.

Every educational video, including standalone educational clips, carries “General information only, not legal advice. Laws vary by jurisdiction.” both on screen in its outro and in its description. Required advertising labels and jurisdiction-specific disclosures are additional. Proposed videos and descriptions remain subject to contributor approval.

3. Approval — and its limits

Nothing featuring a participant publishes without their affirmative approval. Approval and later edits are governed by Section 5 of the Participation Agreement. Production elements and re-cuts, excerpts, captions or formatting that do not alter approved material content may be used without further approval; changes to material content require approval. Silence is not approval. Participants may request takedown under their agreements. They do not direct our coverage or other participants’ content. Legalicious’s discretion remains subject to its obligations and remedies under each signed participation agreement, including paid production and agreed failure-to-deliver or publication-refusal remedies.

We may decline, suspend, restrict or discontinue publication for editorial or business reasons, including compliance concerns, even if a participant approved the content. Express purchased-service commitments and contractual performance remedies remain enforceable. Removing content from our channels does not itself revoke an authorized independent display license.

4. How the faculty is selected

Participation is subject to Legalicious's acceptance and editorial selection. We may establish eligibility criteria, limit places and decline applications, subject to applicable law and services already committed under an accepted Enrollment. No participation title or application creates an entitlement to appear. Participants provide accurate professional information and notify relevant changes; Legalicious may check credentials as an editorial practice without promising verification or continuous monitoring.

Specific questions may be marked as reserved for Faculty seats. Other topic and question choices express interest only and do not guarantee assignment or publication; the editorial team retains selection control.

5. Style Spectrum

The Style Spectrum describes how a lawyer explains things — plain-spoken to technical, brisk to thorough, and similar dimensions of communication. It exists so a founder can find someone they will understand. Each axis is defined where it appears on a profile.

Style Spectrum scores are our editorial opinion about communication style. They are not statements of fact and not ratings of legal ability, experience, seniority, quality or results. Two lawyers can be equally excellent and sit at opposite ends of every axis.

Scores are assigned editorially, by us. A participant has no right to a particular score and no right to have a score changed. Disagreement with an editorial opinion alone creates no removal right under Participation Agreement v3.2. Any rights under an earlier accepted agreement remain governed by that version.

6. Likes and follows

A like or a follow is an expression of founder interest. It is not a rating, ranking, review or testimonial as to any lawyer's ability or results, and we never present it as one. We do not rank lawyers by likes, and we will not publish a leaderboard of legal ability.

7. Founder questions

Questions submitted by founders go into our editorial queue. A question may become a video for everyone, edited and without the founder's name. A question is never passed to a lawyer to answer that founder privately. Lawyers may answer questions publicly, as general information, where the Platform offers it.

8. What we are not

We are not a law firm. We are not a directory. We are not a ranking. We are not a referral service: no fee we receive depends on whether a founder contacts or engages any lawyer, and our external link opens the lawyer’s law firm website in a new window, where any contact happens separately.

9. Accuracy and corrections

Content is general and educational, and the law changes. We do not hold content out as current in every jurisdiction at all times. Participants, viewers and our team may flag an error at team@legalicious.com. Our editorial team reviews reports and coordinates with the relevant contributor to establish what needs correcting.

For a material factual or legal error, we correct the affected content itself or withdraw it from circulation. A description note alone does not resolve an error that remains in the video. We stop further distribution of affected versions, identify related clips and other affected derivatives, and correct or remove them on channels we control. We may temporarily remove content while reviewing a potentially misleading error. Corrections that alter approved material content require the contributor's affirmative approval before publication under Section 5 of the Participation Agreement; withdrawal does not require approval.

For syndicated versions, we instruct the relevant partners to replace the affected content with an approved correction or remove it, and track and follow up on their response. Our efforts and applicable deadlines remain those in the signed participation agreement. We cannot guarantee recall of independently downloaded, shared or copied material outside our control.

When corrected content is published, we include a brief dated correction note alongside it on Legalicious and in descriptions or captions on other channels we control where supported, and ask syndication partners to carry the note with the replacement. Routine production fixes that do not change factual or legal meaning do not require a public correction note. This process does not expand included re-recording or production entitlements, or limit existing remedies, under a Participation Agreement and applicable Enrollment.

10. Content standards for participants

Lawyer participants must accurately represent the jurisdictions in which they are admitted or otherwise authorised to practise law. Their agreements prohibit disclosure of client confidences, specific advice to identifiable people, comparative claims about other lawyers, guarantees of results, unsupported specialisation claims, superlatives and misleading statements. Contributors must not supply material whose public disclosure is prohibited by law, court order (including sealing or protective orders) or binding confidentiality. Educational-answer restrictions are in section 2. We apply the standards in each participant’s agreement during production and after publication.

11. Takedown

Participants may report material factual or legal inaccuracies, misleading current attribution, changed professional status and other qualifying compliance or rights concerns under their accepted agreement. Under v3.2, Legalicious chooses an adequate correction, restriction or removal; preference, departure or cancellation of paid participation alone does not confer a library veto. Ordinary v3.2 remedial timing is thirty calendar days, with commercially reasonable expedited efforts for urgent material-harm concerns and compliance with shorter binding deadlines. Earlier accepted agreements retain their own removal rights and timing, including any at-will right; this policy does not amend them.

12. Partners

Partner organisations distribute our content on their channels. Legalicious retains editorial control over who appears. Partners cannot require us to feature or exclude a particular lawyer or firm. Partner-associated content is labelled.

13. Changes

We may update this policy prospectively. An update does not replace or diminish rights under an accepted Participation Agreement or Enrollment; historical accepted versions remain available.

Legalicious Editorial Policy — Version 2.1 — 8 October 2026