My Employment Lawyer ("MEL") is a community of hundreds of employment attorneys across the United States. Membership in MEL is free. However, Membership is limited to attorneys licensed to practice in a U.S. state whose employment practice is devoted 50% or more on behalf of individual employees.

As a member of MEL you receive:

• An attorney profile page on My Employment Lawyer. You can edit this page at any time;

• Direct links from MEL to your e-mail and website;
  
  

• Questions from visitors in your state who submit them to "Ask MEL";
  
  

• Publication of your Answers to Ask MEL questions;
  
  

• Publication of suitable article that you submit; and
  
  

• Publication of your experience, education, victories and achievements.
  

In exchange for all of this, we ask only that you link your site back to MEL. If you have a "legal links" page on your website, for example, provide a link to MEL for visitors to your site who are not from your state. Thanks to member links, MEL is now in MSN.com's Top Ten list of most popular employment law sites. This drives more traffic to MEL, which sends more clients to you.

To get started, fill out the following form. To learn about the inspiration behind MEL and how to get the most from this site, read the FAQs after the form.

Warning: Only attorneys may register for MEL. If you are not an attorney, do not register. Every state has penalties that prohibit the unauthorized practice of law. Attempting to register as an attorney on MEL may violate these laws, and we will cooperate fully in their enforcement.

Why join MEL?

Get connected to people looking for employment law on the internet. We know from nearly five years of publishing legal information on the internet that individual employees find it. We also know that if you provide quality employment law information to someone who is also looking for an attorney, he or she will probably hire you. My Employment Lawyer lets you put information in the hands of people looking for it on the internet.

Who else has joined?

MEL includes nearly 250 attorneys in 40 states.  Membership is limited to attorneys whose employment practice is dedicated 50% or more on behalf of individuals.  To see a list of members, search MEL's Lawyers .

What inspired you to create this site?

MEL provides easy to find employment law information.  People who found our original site and wanted an attorney frequently hired us.  They had a very good impression of our firm because we provided information that they could use.  

MEL lets participating attorneys have that same experience.  To understand how this works, put yourself in the shoes of the person looking for an employment lawyer.

People  looking for an employment attorney are often in crisis. At best they are unclear about their employment rights.  Today they turn to the  internet to find answers.  They search for employment law in terms that they understand.

A fundamental belief behind MEL is that most people just want employment law information, not attorneys.  MEL provides employment law information.  We wrote FAQs on the topics that arise the most and use keywords for searching answers.

If the same visitors decide they should consult with an attorney, they  will look for the attorney who provided useful information.  MEL not only lets them find both, but allows you to tell the visitor about yourself on your attorney profile.

How can I provide useful information?

MEL gives you several ways to publish really good employment law information.  These are 

1. Answer "Ask MEL" Questions

2. Write FAQs on employment law topics; and

3. Submit articles.

MEL will also publish your website, email and other contact information on your personal profile page.

      Ask MEL

People love this feature.  They want to be able to contact an attorney.  This service directs their question to attorneys in their state.  It is the most direct way of developing potential clients.  Importantly, MEL automatically adds your Answers to its Answers database.  This not only connects you with potential clients, but it creates web content with your name and URL connected to it every time you answer a question.

Ask MEL does have the potential for bothering you with annoying emails. We get some, but they are the exception to the rule.  To limit annoying emails, we:

• limit questions to those from people in your state;
  
  

• told visitors that attorneys have no obligation to answer their questions (and you don't), so they had better write good, short, sensible questions 
  
  

• gave them tips on how to write good questions;  and
  
  

• ask if they are willing to pay a reasonable consultation fee to speak with an attorney.
  

This works. MEL emails questions to you from visitors in your state. Each email tells you the city that the visitor is from, the question and whether the employee is interested in a consultation. This lets you quickly decide whether you will delete the question or answer it.

Recently a visitor asked the perfect question:  

My employer reduced my salary without telling me.  I am looking for an attorney.  Can you tell me your consultation fee?

If every client called with this question we would all get a lot more work done.  If you get too many questions, you can change your membership to inactive whenever you want.

     FAQs

MEL's substantive law backbone is in its FAQs on common employment law topics.  If you have some time to write FAQs on employment law topics not yet covered, such as disability discrimination, your name will be on the lead-in page for that topic. Look at MEL's Sexual Harassment FAQs prepared by Mary Keating for an example. Contact me if you want to write a FAQ on a new topic.

    Articles

Have you written newsletter articles?  Do you already have articles on your web page?  Do you have business development time that you can devote to a new topic?  If so, send MEL your articles and for publication on the site.  Make your articles short, to the point and in plain English.  

What will you charge me?

Nothing.  MEL is an open, free site.  We ask only that you link your site to MEL.

Join My Employment Lawyer! Help MEL give individual employees the answers they need. Make MEL your best source of new business.