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r/law vs r/legaladvice

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Personal legal Q&A vs law news and profession talk

r/legaladvice’s public description is a place to ask simple legal questions. r/law describes discussion of developments in the law and the legal profession—and its rules ban requests for legal advice.

In our directory, legaladvice is larger (about 3.6M, rank #275) than law (about 2.3M, rank #494). Activity samples show legaladvice posting much more often (~182 posts/day vs ~46). legaladvice’s sample is essentially all text with employment, criminal, housing and family flairs; law’s sample is almost all link posts with legal-news flairs. Our directory lists each name among the other’s related communities.

That related link is useful precisely because the rules diverge: legaladvice wants location-tagged personal questions answered with legal information only; law wants news and profession talk and explicitly rejects advice requests and 0L/homework questions.

Choose r/legaladvice for a simple personal legal question with your location—answers must stay legal information, not anecdotes.
Choose r/law for legal news and profession discussion; do not ask for personal legal advice there.
Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; neither replaces a lawyer.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/law

Law: Covering current developments in law

A place to discuss developments in the law and the legal profession.

Members: 2.3M
7-day growth: +2.3K
Posts/day: 45.6
Directory rank: #494
Created: Feb 18, 2008
Submissions: Link posts

Sample mix: links 96%, videos 4%

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Stay on topic.
No requests for legal advice.
No 0L or homework questions.
Limit self-promotion.
Keep headlines objective.
No soapboxing.
Personal Attacks
Moderator Discretion
Reposts
No Twitter or other sites on which CSAM is known to circulate
Top Level Comment Restrictions
Don’t direct people to legal advice subreddits

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About this community: r/law (#494, about 2.3 million) — A place to discuss developments in the law and the legal profession. Collected rules highlight Stay on topic.; No requests for legal advice.; No 0L or homework questions., among 12 listed. Activity mix in sample: link:324, video:15. Bu.

r/legaladvice

Legal Advice ~ A place to get simple legal advice*

A place to ask simple legal questions.

Members: 3.6M
7-day growth: +3.6K
Posts/day: 181.7
Directory rank: #275
Created: Oct 26, 2009
Submissions: Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Advice

Rule titles (short names we collected)

All responses must contain legal information/answers only. No off-topic or anecdotal comments.
Do Not Give Illegal Advice
Do Not Advise Media Exposure
Personally Identifying Information
Personal Attacks Prohibited
Advertising or Recommending a Lawyer or Business
Troll Post
Duplicate Post
Requesting PM
Include your location
Read our full list of rules

Open r/legaladvice on SubMouse

About this community: r/legaladvice (#275, about 3.6 million) is for simple legal questions. Responses must be legal information—not anecdotes; bans illegal advice, media-exposure advice, PII, personal attacks, advertising/recommending lawyers/businesses, troll/duplicate posts, PM requests; require location; read full rules. Text (~181.7 ppd).

Supported differences

Aspect	r/law	r/legaladvice
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	A place to discuss developments in the law and the legal profession.	A place to ask simple legal questions.
Size r/legaladvice is larger in our directory (about 1.6×).	2.3M members	3.6M members
Posting activity (our sample)	45.6/day	181.7/day
Common post types in our sample	links 96%, videos 4%	text posts 100%
Allowed submission type (meta)	Link posts	Text posts
Topic tags on SubMouse	n/a	Advice
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	Stay on topic.; No requests for legal advice.; No 0L or homework questions.; Limit self-promotion.; Keep headlines objective.	All responses must contain legal information/answers only. No off-topic or anecdotal comments.; Do Not Give Illegal Advice; Do Not Advise Media Exposure; Personally Identifying Information; Personal Attacks Prohibited

What they share

Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and tone we can verify

legaladvice short titles include: responses must contain legal information only—no off-topic or anecdotal comments; do not give illegal advice; do not advise media exposure; personally identifying information; personal attacks prohibited; advertising or recommending a lawyer or business; troll/duplicate posts; requesting PM; include your location. Our sample flairs include employment law, criminal law, landlord-tenant housing and custody/divorce/family.

law: stay on topic; no requests for legal advice; no 0L or homework questions; limit self-promotion; keep headlines objective; no soapboxing; personal attacks; moderator discretion; reposts. Our sample is link-heavy with legal-news style flairs.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Mutual related-list links. Short titles only.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

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