Any subscriber can share four kinds of posts: caselaw notes, practice directions, local knowledge, and discussions (questions for other lawyers; see below).
- Open Community in the sidebar and pick the section you want to post to.
- Click the new post button, then write a title and body. You can add up to five topic tags (bail, sentencing, drugs, evidence, and so on) and a court level.
- Attach up to four files (PDF or Word, 25 MB each) to practice direction and local knowledge posts.
- Publish. Your post appears for every Acquit user, credited to you and your firm.
You can also start a post straight from the home feed’s composer box: the box itself opens a new discussion, and the shortcuts beside it start a caselaw note or document upload.
Discussions are open threads
A discussion is a conversation with the whole community: “Anyone run this argument at Beenleigh?” Colleagues reply in a thread, and every reply can be voted up or down; the useful ones rise. If you want the room’s read on a choice, add a poll when you start the thread (two to six options). Colleagues get one vote each, can change it, and see the results as soon as they’ve voted; every list shows a Poll chip with the running vote count. Keep client-identifying details out of threads: discussions are visible to every Acquit user.
Readers can vote posts up or down, comment, and bookmark. A post can be marked Helpful and saved right from the home feed without opening it. You can edit or delete your own posts and comments at any time. An edited post shows an “edited” badge; comment edits made within 15 minutes are silent, after that the badge appears.
Note: Judgment posts are published automatically from the courts’ own releases; you can comment and vote on them, but not author them.