A Black Friday Discount On Original Jurisdiction Subscriptions
Happy Thanksgiving—and happy anniversary to Original Jurisdiction!
Happy Thanksgiving. I hope that you have enjoyable plans to spend the holiday with family and friends. Zach and I will be with his extended family, at his aunt’s house outside Philadelphia (and in the company of several other attorneys).
I have much to be thankful for this year—including, but not limited to, the success of Original Jurisdiction. I launched OJ four years ago next week, on December 3, 2020. Today, I have almost 19,000 total subscribers, both free and paid—up from 15,000 one year ago, representing an increase of more than 25 percent. And roughly 15 percent of my total subscribers are paying subscribers, well above Substack’s recommended “conversion rate” of at least 10 percent.
I have you—my readers, subscribers, and sponsors—to thank for this thriving newsletter. I count myself so blessed to be able to make a living from doing something I love.
As an expression of thanks for your readership, and in celebration of Original Jurisdiction’s fourth anniversary, I’m offering a Black Friday deal on paid subscriptions: 15 percent off. This takes the usual $6/month and $60/year rates down to $5.10/month and $51/year, respectively—only slightly above the $5/month and $50/year rates from when I first launched paid subscriptions in May 2021.
To refresh your recollection, here are some of the benefits of a paid subscription:
access to Judicial Notice, my time-saving weekly roundup of the most notable news in the legal world;
additional stories reserved for paid subscribers (including the Supreme Court clerk hiring roundup I’m posting after the holiday);
the ability to comment on posts; and
transcripts of podcast interviews, which many subscribers tell me they greatly appreciate (hopefully because they find it faster to read or skim a transcript than to listen to a podcast, not because they can’t stand my voice).
And under Substack’s current policy, if you subscribe at a particular rate, you keep that rate in perpetuity (as long as you don’t cancel and resubscribe). This means that you will be unaffected by any future rate increases.
On that subject, I am planning a rate increase: starting in January 2025, I’m raising the Original Jurisdiction subscription rate to $7 a month or $70 a year. If you look at the top 25 paid newsletters in the Business category, you’ll see that all of them charge $8 a month or more—except for this fine publication. At $7 a month, OJ will still be the cheapest in the top 25.
If you’d like to upgrade to a paid subscription, can’t afford it right now, but know someone who can afford it, ask that person to buy you a gift subscription for your December holiday of choice. Of if you need to get a present for a lawyer, law student, or law-curious person in your life, buy them a gift subscription to OJ. The Black Friday discount works for gift subscriptions as well as regular ones.
Lawyers appreciate deadlines, and this discount has one: it’s available from now through December 3, which is OJ’s fourth anniversary. After that, the regular rates of $6/month and $60/year will return for the rest of the month—and then, on January 1, 2025, they will go up to $7/month and $70/year. So if you’re interested in upgrading, go to https://davidlat.substack.com/thanks and pick your preferred plan.
Once again, thank you for your readership and support over the past four years. I wish you and yours the happiest of Thanksgivings!