{{Short description|Weekly legal magazine for legal professionals}}{{More citations needed|date=February 2024}}{{Infobox magazine | image_file = New Law Journal FC 250x354px.jpg | image_size = 250px | frequency = Weekly (48 issues) | category = Legal magazine |company= LexisNexis | editor = Jan Miller | founded = 1822 | country = United Kingdom | based = London | ISSN = 0306-6479 }} '''''New Law Journal''''' (NLJ) is a British weekly legal magazine for legal professionals, first published in 1822. It provides information on case law, legislation and changes in practice. It is funded by subscription and generally available to most of the legal profession.
==History== It was established in 1822 as ''Law Journal''. It was amalgamated with ''Law Times'' to become ''New Law Journal'' in 1965. From 1947 to 1965 Butterworths published two weekly journals – the ''Law Journal'' and the ''Law Times''. These were different in style and readership, but there was a strong case for rationalisation. Largely at the urging of Richard Millett when he was chairman, the two were amalgamated at the ''New Law Journal''. Tom Harper, till the then the editors of the ''Law Society Gazette'', agreed to become the first editor of the new journal. Jan Miller became editor of the journal at the end of 2007.
==Features== Each issue of ''NLJ'' normally contains about 25 pages of editorial, as well as advertising and regular directories of legal service providers. Contributors and key legal figures provide expert commentary and opinion in comment, speakers' corner and law in the headlines sections.
Published weekly (48 issues per year), there are also additional bound-in directories and supplements over the year. ''NLJ'' also offers lawyers a way to earn their continuing professional development points.
== Readership == Although it is a commercial magazine written primarily for practicing lawyers, ''New Law Journal'' is also read extensively by academics.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kenney |first=Phillip H. |title=Studying Law |date=1985 |publisher=Lexis Law Publishing |isbn=9780406016096 |location=Virginia |pages=62–63}}</ref>
==See also== * Herbert Bentwich (1856–1932), owner/editor of the Law Journal for many years * ''Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law'' * ''Corporate Rescue and Insolvency'' * ''Counsel'' * ''Justice of the Peace'' * ''Justice of the Peace Reports'' * ''Tolley's Employment Law Newsletter''
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==External links== * [https://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/ Official website]
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