þÿ<html> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US" > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-16" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <meta name="keywords" content="internet law legal advice typography essay writing" /> <meta name="description" content="IANYL.net is a discussion forum for Internet-savvy lawyers interested in technological subjects." /> <meta name="copyright" content="This website content is copyright (c) 2009 by David H. Madden. All rights reserved." /> <head> <title>I Am Not Your Lawyer</title> </head> <body style="margin:5%"> <p style="width:40%;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:justify;font-family:Serif;line-height:150%"> <b>IANYL</b> /aj ej [n Èwaj [l/ <i>abbr.</i> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">I Am Not Your Lawyer.</span> Common modification of an even-more common Internet abbreviation <a href="IANAL.html"><b>IANAL</b></a> (<i>which see, note substitution of </i><b style="font-variant:small-caps">y</b><i> for second </i><b style="font-variant:small-caps">a</b>). Often used in written suggestions, recommendations and answers to questions posted online when the writer is, in fact, a lawyer, but is not commenting in his capacity (if any) as any reader's attorney. Such comments are often followed by another common abbreviation, <a href="TINLA.html"><b>TINLA</b></a>, to emphasize that the information is not offered as legal advice from the lawyer to any reader, including the original questioner or commenter. </p> </body> </html>