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Put LAWS.com court opinion summaries and legal news on your site, in your feed reader, newsletter or Slack. Free. No sign-up. Copy a feed URL and go.

RSS 2.0 standardUpdated hourly50 latest stories per feedHeadline, summary, image, author, link
Main feedsFeeds by topicHow to useDrop-in widgetWhat's in the feedTerms

Main feeds

Most sites want one of these two.

All legal news

Most popular

Every published story, newest first. Court opinion summaries and legal news from federal and state courts.

https://laws.com/news/rss.xml

Top stories

Curated

The biggest rulings and legal news, ranked by importance. This is the feed behind the LAWS.com homepage widget.

https://laws.com/news/widget/rss.xml

Feeds by topic

Pick only the areas your readers care about. Each feed is the latest 50 stories in that topic.

Breaking

Latest court opinions as they come in

https://laws.com/news/breaking/rss.xml

SCOTUS

All Supreme Court opinions

https://laws.com/news/scotus/rss.xml

Politics

Election, government, executive orders

https://laws.com/news/politics/rss.xml

Crime

Criminal, sentencing, death penalty

https://laws.com/news/crime/rss.xml

Business

Antitrust, SEC, bankruptcy, mergers

https://laws.com/news/business/rss.xml

Tech & IP

Patent, IP, social media, AI law

https://laws.com/news/tech/rss.xml

Civil Rights

Discrimination, voting, police

https://laws.com/news/civil-rights/rss.xml

Immigration

Asylum, deportation, border

https://laws.com/news/immigration/rss.xml

Health

FDA, pharma, malpractice

https://laws.com/news/health/rss.xml

Environment

EPA, climate, pollution

https://laws.com/news/environment/rss.xml

Education

School law, student rights

https://laws.com/news/education/rss.xml

Celebrity

Divorces, defamation, estates

https://laws.com/news/celebrity/rss.xml

Law

General legal news

https://laws.com/news/law/rss.xml

How to use a feed

Feed readers

Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Reeder, Thunderbird, Outlook.

  1. Copy a feed URL above.
  2. In your reader, choose Add feed or Subscribe.
  3. Paste the URL. Done.

WordPress

No plugin needed.

  1. Edit a page or sidebar.
  2. Add the RSS block (or the legacy RSS widget).
  3. Paste a feed URL. Choose how many items and whether to show summaries and dates.

Any website or CMS

Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Drupal, Ghost and most CMSs have an RSS or "feed" block that takes a URL. If yours does not, use the drop-in widget below or an RSS-to-HTML service such as FeedWind or RSS.app.

Email newsletters

Mailchimp, Beehiiv, Constant Contact and others can build an automatic email from a feed.

  1. Create an RSS or "automated" campaign.
  2. Paste a feed URL.
  3. Set daily or weekly. New stories go out on schedule.

Slack, Teams, Discord

  1. Slack: in a channel type /feed subscribe https://laws.com/news/rss.xml
  2. Teams: add the RSS connector to a channel and paste the URL.
  3. Discord: use an RSS bot such as MonitoRSS.

Let readers auto-discover it

Add this to the <head> of your pages. Browsers and readers then find the feed on their own.

<link rel="alternate"
      type="application/rss+xml"
      title="LAWS.com Legal News"
      href="https://laws.com/news/rss.xml">

Drop-in news widget

Want it to look like the LAWS.com homepage? One line of HTML. The widget creates its own container, loads its styles and shows live top stories. It works on any site.

<script src="https://laws.com/news/includes/laws-news-widget.js" async></script>

To control exactly where it appears, add a target div first:

<div id="laws-news-widget"></div>
<script src="https://laws.com/news/includes/laws-news-widget.js" async></script>

What's in the feed

Standard RSS 2.0 with the common extensions, so it works everywhere.

Per story

Headline, link to the full article, plain-text summary, publish date, topic, author, and a story image (media:content).

Refresh

New stories appear as they are published. Feeds carry a 30-minute ttl and an hourly sy:updatePeriod. Polling every 30 to 60 minutes is plenty.

Size

The latest 50 stories per feed. Topic feeds are smaller and focused.

Namespaces

atom (self link), dc (creator), media (images), content, sy. Validates as RSS 2.0.

Links

Every item links to its article on laws.com/news. Links are permanent.

Format

application/rss+xml, UTF-8, HTTPS only.

Terms of use

The feeds are free for personal, educational and commercial use, including on ad-supported sites and in paid newsletters.

  • Show headlines and summaries as provided and keep the link to the original article on laws.com.
  • Credit the source as LAWS.com. The feed does that for you if your reader shows the source field.
  • Do not republish full articles, alter headlines, or present the content as your own reporting.
  • Do not use the feeds to train AI models or to build a competing news database.
  • We may change or discontinue feeds. Heavy automated polling (more than once a minute) may be rate limited.

Questions, a custom feed, or a syndication deal: pr@laws.com