The online version of The National Law Review was started as a research tool by a group of corporate attorneys looking to store and classify useful and reputable legal analysis and news they located on the internet.

[3] The on-line version contains primarily attorney-authored articles, podcasts, and videos, and specializes in US business law news and analysis.

Though submissions on regulatory changes and state and federal court rulings, slowed somewhat in 2022, from their peak during the height of the COVID crisis and the turbulence of the Trump Administration to an average of 350 new articles per week.

Academic law reviews continued going strong but few of the local law-focused and attorney-authored publications survived after West Publishing began to dominate the legal publishing market in the early 1900s by eliminating or consolidating numerous local legal reporters and many of the attorney-authored law reviews.

[7][8] Articles in law reviews were often considered a persuasive authority in American courts, though this influence is generally thought to be waning in recent years.