No attorney reviews this site, and that is deliberate
FileMyAccident is not a law firm. We do not employ attorneys, we do not review cases, and we do not put an attorney's name on an article to borrow their authority. What we do is connect people with attorneys who are licensed where they live.
Sites in this category often carry a line saying an attorney reviewed the page. We think that line is worth less than it looks: it is unverifiable from outside, and it implies a relationship the reader does not have. So we say the true thing instead. Everything here is general information, never legal advice, and reading it creates no attorney-client relationship with anyone.
Sources carry the whole weight
With no reviewer, a citation is the only thing standing behind a claim about the law. So the rule is stricter than it would otherwise be: a page that states what the law is must link the statute or the agency that says so, and the build refuses to publish one that does not.
We cite primary sources by preference. A page about a filing deadline links the section of the code that sets it, not an article about the code. Where a topic is procedural rather than legal, we cite the agency that runs the procedure.
Every legal fact carries the date it was checked
Legislatures change these numbers by session. A page asserting a deadline without saying when anyone last looked is asking to be trusted on nothing, so each fact records the date it was verified against its source, and those dates are shown on the page.
A fact that has not been rechecked in over a year raises a warning in our build, and fails a release outright. We do not advance those dates to silence the warning. The warning is the system working.
A state page exists only when the research does
We publish a legal page for a state when we have sourced that state's law, and not before. Where the research is not finished, the page stays out of search results and says so. That is why most state pages here are marked as in progress rather than filled with something that reads like an answer.
What we will not write
- A figure for what a claim might pay. Nobody can tell you that from a web page.
- A promise about any outcome, or a suggestion that one is typical.
- Urgency language designed to make you call today rather than think.
- A ranking, a recommendation, or a claim that one attorney suits you.
These are not preferences. The exact phrases are listed in a configuration file and the build fails if any of them appears in an article or a template, in English or in Spanish.
How we are paid, and what it does not buy
Attorneys pay to receive case inquiries and to be listed. Readers pay nothing. Payment does not buy a position, a ranking, or a recommendation: our directory is ordered alphabetically, and nobody can pay to be ordered differently. The full arrangement is on how we make money.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to know, and we would rather hear it from you than from a reader who relied on it. Write to corrections@filemyaccident.com with the page and what is wrong with it.
We fix factual errors about the law as a priority, update the verification date when we recheck a fact, and note the change on the page where the correction would change what a reader should do.