About r/legaladvice
In its own words:
A place to ask simple legal questions.
Community guide
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).
Legal info answers only
Top replies need legal information—not stories. Include your location.
Hard bans
No illegal advice, lawyer ads, PII, or “go to the media” coaching; no PM requests.
Practical pointers
Almost entirely text; Employment/Criminal/Housing/Family flairs in samples. Not a substitute for a lawyer.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Oct 26, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 3,596 subscribers (+0.10%). It sits just behind r/Philippines (#274) and ahead of r/Health (#276) in our ranking.
What sets r/legaladvice apart
r/legaladvice is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100. r/legaladvice is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 6.2 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 14.0. For its size it is unusually busy: about 50.1 new posts a day per million members, more than 94% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.75% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 94% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/legaladvice climbed from 3,596,928 to 3,623,945 subscribers (+27K, +0.75%). That is about 614 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/legaladvice talks about
Looking at the titles of 696 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “car”, “legal”, “case”, “advice” and “help”. Other frequent themes are landlord, company, question, lease, lawyer and california. Recurring phrases include “child support”, “legal advice”, “car accident” and “small claims”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Employment Law (41), Criminal Law (40), Landlord Tenant Housing (40), Custody Divorce and Family (39), Other Civil Matters (37), Traffic and Parking (21).
Activity and best time to post
r/legaladvice gets about 180 new posts a day. The public archive holds 2,183,787 posts and 13,617,773 comments in total, about 6.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (217 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (137). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/legaladvice
The moderators of r/legaladvice list 11 rules. In short:
- 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
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/legaladvice and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/legaladvice have?
r/legaladvice has 3,623,945 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #275 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 27,017 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/legaladvice created?
r/legaladvice was created on Oct 26, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Apr 20, 2010.
Is r/legaladvice still active?
Yes. r/legaladvice gets about 180 new posts a day (average of the last week). Over its lifetime the archive counts 2,183,787 posts and 13,617,773 comments. In a sample of 696 recent posts we counted 663 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/legaladvice?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/legaladvice?
The community describes itself as: “A place to ask simple legal questions.” Recent post titles often mention car, legal, case, advice and help. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/legaladvice SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/legaladvice as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/legaladvice?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/legaladvice accepts text posts only. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “All responses must contain legal information/answers only. No off-topic or anecdotal comments.”; “Do Not Give Illegal Advice”; “Do Not Advise Media Exposure”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/legaladvice?
Communities with similar topics include r/Piracy (3.1M), r/Advice (3.2M), r/AdviceAnimals (9.9M), r/AskReddit (60M) and r/dating_advice (4.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/legaladvice.