r/legaladvice vs r/law
Side-by-side using public descriptions, members, growth and rule titles from SubMouse. Missing fields show as n/a. Adult communities are excluded.
Swap sides
New comparison
Related to r/legaladvice
Related to r/law
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/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
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
Open r/law on SubMouse
Supported differences
| Aspect | r/legaladvice | r/law |
|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
A place to ask simple legal questions. |
A place to discuss developments in the law and the legal profession. |
| Size r/legaladvice is larger in our directory (about 1.6×). |
3.6M members |
2.3M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
181.7/day |
45.6/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 100% |
links 96%, videos 4% |
| Allowed submission type (meta) |
Text posts |
Link posts |
| Topic tags on SubMouse |
Advice |
n/a |
| Selected 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 |
Stay on topic.; No requests for legal advice.; No 0L or homework questions.; Limit self-promotion.; Keep headlines objective. |
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.