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r/legal

357.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 50.8K upvotes, which works out to 142 per 1,000 members.

142peak upvotes per 1,000 members
357.7Kmembers
50.8Kbest post
5.1Kmost comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

39% 30% 13%
Image 39% Text 30% Video 13% Question 6% Gallery 6% Link 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Advice needed 21 Question about law 12 Legal news 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Native American friend taken by ICE

↑ 50.8K 💬 5.1K text 2025

A Kentucky judge, taken aback, interrupted court proceedings to reprimand jail officials for denying an inmate pants and feminine hygiene products fo…

↑ 38K 💬 1K video 2024

What is the legality of defending oneself with a firearm (if you’re this lady, and afraid for your life) in this situation?

↑ 31.7K 💬 3.9K video 2025

How valid is this?

↑ 27.1K 💬 3.6K image 2024

Is this legal?

↑ 26.7K 💬 322 image 2024

My neighbor cut down a 40-year-old Japanese Maple while I was away.

↑ 24.4K 💬 4K text 2026

My mother has married a Muslim man who is trying to enforce Islam on me and I want a legal way out

↑ 23.4K 💬 4.1K text 2023

My coworker kept stealing my lunch. I put jalapenos in my sandwich and he got sick from them. Can he sue me?

↑ 21K 💬 3.1K question 2024

If DOGE hasn't been approved by Congress, why is Elon just allowed to do as he pleases with the Treasury? Where's the oversight? Why aren't Congress/…

↑ 19.2K 💬 1.4K question 2025

Is this considered a threat and should I report it?

↑ 19.2K 💬 2.7K image 2023

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/legal, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.