This site is free to read and free to use. We are paid a referral fee by the law firm you hire, after your case resolves and only if it does. You are never billed by us, the fee does not come out of your settlement, and you are under no obligation to hire anyone.
By Michael Mangione, Legal Research EditorLast reviewed August 1, 202611 min read
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Who pays us
The attorney
A participating law firm pays a referral fee out of the fee it already charges, after your case resolves.
What you pay us
Nothing, ever
Reading this site, requesting a review, and being connected to an attorney all cost you zero.
What a lawyer costs
A contingency fee
Commonly 33 to 40 percent of a recovery, set in a written agreement you sign, owed only if you win.
Who writes the rules
Your state bar
Referral and advertising rules are set state by state. Some states cap the fee. Some require certification.
Key takeaways
You are never our customer. We do not bill you, charge a subscription, or take a percentage of anything you recover. The money moves in one direction only, from the law firm to us.
The fee is the firm's cost, not yours. Your contingency percentage is set in the agreement you sign with the attorney. Some states expressly forbid a lawyer from passing the cost of a referral service on to the client.
Being paid creates a pull, and we name it. Any service paid by attorneys has a reason to send you to a paying attorney. The honest response is to publish the standard, not to pretend the pull does not exist.
You can check every claim here. The bar rules, the fee caps, and the disclosure requirements below are public. Each one links to the regulation or the decision itself.
Editorial content, not legal advice
MVA Lawyer Network is an independent publisher and referral service. It is not a law firm. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and reading it or submitting a form does not create an attorney client relationship. No outcome is promised or guaranteed, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes. If you are facing an emergency, call 911.
The money, in four numbers
Most of what people fear about a free legal referral service comes down to a single question: where is the money actually coming from. Here is the whole answer.
$0
is what you pay us, at every stage, whether or not you ever speak to an attorney.
33 to 40%
is the usual contingency fee range a personal injury firm charges, written into the agreement you sign.
33 1/3%
is New Jersey's ceiling on the fee for the first $750,000 of a net tort recovery, one example of a state that caps it.
4
is the minimum number of separate law firms a referral service must have on its panel for a Florida lawyer to take part.
How one state caps an attorney's contingency fee
New Jersey sets a hard ceiling in tort cases, and it steps down as the recovery grows. Most states do not cap fees this way, which is exactly why the number in your own written agreement matters.
First $750,000
33 1/3%
Next $750,000
30%
Next $750,000
25%
Next $750,000
20%
Source: New Jersey Court Rule 1:21-7(c). The fee is calculated on the net sum recovered after case disbursements are deducted, under R. 1:21-7(d). Above $3,000,000 the attorney must apply to the court for a fee determination. Bar widths are drawn to scale against a 40 percent reference.
01 The short version
Quick answer
MVA Lawyer Network is free to the injured person. If you hire an attorney we connect you with, that law firm pays us a referral fee out of the fee the firm already charges you, after your case resolves and only if it does. We never bill you, we never take a percentage of your recovery, and you owe us nothing if you walk away.
Most legal websites will not tell you this part. They will tell you they are free, and stop there. Free is true, but it is not the whole sentence, and the missing half is the part a reasonable person actually wants to know. So here is the whole sentence: this site is free to you because attorneys pay for it.
A referral fee is a payment a law firm makes to a service that sends it a prospective client. In our case it is paid after the fact, out of the firm's own earned fee, once your matter concludes. It is not an entry fee you pay to be considered. It is not a charge added to your bill. It is not deducted from your settlement as a separate line item.
Three things follow from that structure. First, we make nothing unless a case both gets taken and gets resolved, which means we have no reason to push a claim that a good lawyer would decline. Second, we cannot charge you, because there is no mechanism by which you pay us. Third, the arrangement is regulated, and by rules written by state bars rather than by us. The rest of this page walks through each of those.
Bottom line: the attorney pays us, you do not, and the payment happens at the end rather than the beginning.
02 What a referral fee is, and what it is not
Quick answer
An attorney referral fee paid by a law firm to a service is a business expense of the firm. It is different from a fee split between two lawyers, and different again from the contingency fee you agree to pay your attorney. Under the American Bar Association Model Rules, a lawyer may not share legal fees with a nonlawyer, so a service like ours is paid as a cost of the firm's practice rather than as a slice of your recovery.
Three different payments get confused constantly, and separating them clears up almost every worry people bring to this page.
Your contingency fee. A contingency fee is money you agree to pay your attorney, expressed as a percentage of what the attorney recovers for you. You negotiate it, you sign it, and you owe it only if there is a recovery. Nothing about a referral changes who sets that number: you and the firm do.
A fee division between lawyers. When one attorney refers a case to another and both share the fee, that is governed by its own rule and generally requires your written agreement. It is a lawyer to lawyer arrangement, and it is not what happens here.
A referral or marketing fee paid to a nonlawyer service. This is us. Model Rule 5.4(a) bars a lawyer from sharing legal fees with a nonlawyer, which is precisely why this payment is structured as an expense of running the firm rather than a cut of your case. The distinction is not cosmetic. It is the reason your percentage does not move.
Advertising and referrals
Lawyers may pay a referral service, within limits
ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct r. 7.2(b)
A lawyer may not give anything of value for a recommendation, with narrow exceptions. Among them, a lawyer may pay the reasonable costs of permitted advertising and may pay the usual charges of a legal service plan or a not for profit or qualified lawyer referral service. Comment 5 adds the line that matters most here: a lawyer may pay for client leads only if the lead generator does not itself state or imply that it is recommending the lawyer without payment, or that it analyzed the person's legal problem in deciding who should get the referral. American Bar Association
That comment is worth reading twice, because it is the ethical spine of every honest referral page on the internet. A service is allowed to be paid. What it is not allowed to do is take the money and then dress the result up as a disinterested recommendation. That is why this page exists, and why the disclosure sits in the navigation rather than in a footer nobody opens.
The gist
Three payments, three different rules. Only one of them, your contingency fee, is money that comes from you, and it is set in a document you sign and can take home to read first.
03 What you pay, and to whom
Quick answer
You pay us nothing at any stage. If you hire an attorney, you pay that attorney a contingency fee, commonly 33 to 40 percent of what the firm recovers, owed only if the firm recovers money. Case costs such as expert witnesses and records are handled separately and must be spelled out in the same written agreement before you sign it.
The single most useful habit an injured person can build is reading the fee agreement slowly. It is a short document, it is written for you, and it answers the questions that people otherwise spend months worrying about. The professional rules require it to.
Fee agreements
A contingency fee has to be in writing, and explained
ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct r. 1.5(c)
A contingent fee agreement must be in a writing signed by the client. It must state the method by which the fee is determined, including the percentage that goes to the lawyer on settlement, at trial, and on appeal, which litigation expenses are deducted from the recovery, and whether those expenses come out before or after the fee is calculated. At the end of the matter the lawyer must give the client a written statement showing the outcome and how the remittance was worked out. American Bar Association
The before or after question is the one people miss. A one third fee taken before costs are deducted and a one third fee taken after costs are deducted produce different checks, sometimes very different ones. The rule requires the agreement to say which it is. If you read nothing else in the document, read that clause and ask the attorney to work an example on paper.
State rules layer on top of the model rule. New Jersey caps the fee outright on a sliding scale and requires it to be computed on the net recovery after disbursements. Other states leave the number to negotiation but still require the writing, the disclosure of costs, and the closing statement. None of those state protections are affected by how the firm found your case.
Not sure what your case involves yet? That is what the review is for.
Primary sources
We would rather show you the rule than ask you to trust us.
04 Why the referral fee does not come out of your pocket
Quick answer
Your fee percentage is fixed by the agreement you sign with the law firm, and the firm's marketing and referral costs sit on the firm's side of that agreement. Florida puts it in the rule text directly: a lawyer working with a referral or matching service may not pass the cost of doing business with that service on to the client.
There is a version of this business that would be worse for you, and it is worth naming so you can tell the difference. In that version, a service takes a cut of the settlement itself, so every dollar it earns is a dollar less in your pocket. That is not how this works, and in most places it is not permitted to work that way.
Instead, the firm pays for case acquisition the same way it pays for its office, its paralegals, and its billboards. Whether the firm found you through a television spot, a search ad, a former client, or this site, its overhead does not change the ceiling on what it can charge you. In Florida that principle is written down rather than implied, and it points back to the rules on reasonable fees and on conflicts of interest.
What the referral fee changes
How the law firm accounts for its own marketing spend
Whether we can afford to research and publish this site
Our incentive to send cases only to firms that actually handle them well
Nothing else
What it does not change
The percentage in your signed fee agreement
Any state cap on attorney fees that applies to your case
Your right to interview several attorneys and pick a different one
Your right to hire nobody at all
A common scenario
Two people with nearly identical rear end collisions hire the same firm in the same week. One found the firm through a radio ad. One found it through a site like this one. They sign the same standard fee agreement at the same percentage. The firm's cost of acquiring each case is different, and their fee is not. That is the whole point of keeping the referral payment on the firm's side of the ledger.
05 The rules that govern this
Quick answer
Lawyer referral and matching services are regulated at the state level, through each state's rules of professional conduct and, in some states, by statute. California requires a lawyer referral service to be certified by the State Bar. Florida regulates the arrangement through the participating attorney's own obligations. There is no single national rule, which is why the answer to "is this allowed" always depends on your state.
Two states show the two dominant approaches clearly, and between them they cover most of what a reader needs to understand.
Certification model
California regulates the service itself
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6155
A nongovernmental entity may not operate for the direct or indirect purpose of referring potential clients to attorneys, and no attorney may accept such a referral, unless the service is certified by the State Bar of California and operates within minimum standards approved by the Supreme Court. The State Bar sets those standards, collects fees, and can suspend or revoke a certificate. Justia
Landmark case
Matching a client to a lawyer is a referral
Jackson v. LegalMatch.com, 42 Cal. App. 5th 760 (2019)
An online service argued it was not a lawyer referral service because it did not exercise legal judgment about a person's problem before passing them to subscribing attorneys. The First District Court of Appeal disagreed, reading section 6155 by its plain meaning: the act of referring is complete when the service directs a potential client to an attorney, whether or not the service screened the legal issue first. Matching is referring. Justia
Attorney duty model
Florida regulates through the lawyer's own obligations
R. Regulating Fla. Bar 4-7.22
Florida uses the broad term "qualifying provider" to capture referral services, matching services, directories, and pooled advertising alike. A Florida lawyer may participate only if the provider meets the rule, which requires among other things that the provider not imply it is a law firm, that it disclose the referred lawyer's office location by city, town, or county, that for profit providers file annual reports, and that the panel include lawyers from at least four different law firms. The rule also states that a participating lawyer may not pass the cost of doing business with the provider on to the client. The Florida Bar
Because the rules are state law, a service that is lawful in one state may need certification in another, and an attorney in a third may be barred from participating at all. If you want to know how a particular service is regulated where you live, your state bar is the authority, and most publish the answer on their public site.
1977
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona
The U.S. Supreme Court holds that a blanket ban on truthful lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment. The modern market for legal advertising, and everything downstream of it, starts here.
2015
Florida sends the Bar back to the drafting table
The Florida Supreme Court rejects the Bar's proposed referral service amendments and directs it to write stricter rules, signaling how seriously state courts take for profit referral.
2018
The qualifying provider scheme takes effect
Florida folds referral services, matching services, directories, and pooled advertising into one regulatory category, closing the gap between old and new business models.
2019
Jackson v. LegalMatch.com
A California appellate court holds that routing a prospective client to a panel attorney is a referral under section 6155, regardless of whether the service analyzed the legal issue first.
2023
The FTC rewrites its Endorsement Guides
The revised guides define clear and conspicuous for the internet era and reaffirm that a material connection an audience would not expect has to be disclosed.
Who sets the standard
Your state bar wrote these rules. We just have to live inside them.
06 What our money model does not buy
Quick answer
No attorney can buy a better position on this site, a featured badge, priority in a queue, or a promise that any particular case will be sent to them. Payment is what makes a firm eligible to receive referrals. It is not what decides which firm gets yours.
The difference between a referral service worth using and one worth avoiding is almost entirely this distinction. In a bad model, the highest bidder wins the case. In a workable model, money buys admission to a pool, and something other than money decides who in that pool is right for a given matter.
What we will not do. We do not auction cases. We do not rank firms by what they pay. We do not sell a paid placement inside an article and label it as editorial. And we do not describe a firm as vetted, qualified, or recommended on the strength of a payment, because doing so would be the exact deception the professional rules single out.
What we will do. Match on the things that actually predict a good outcome for you: whether the firm handles your specific case type, whether it is licensed and in good standing in your state, whether it has the resources to fund experts and reconstruction against a well funded defense, and whether it puts fee terms in writing up front.
Warning signs on any referral site
No disclosure page at all. If a free service will not say how it is paid, assume the answer is one you would not like. A single firm behind many brands. Several differently named sites that all route to one office is advertising dressed as choice. Guaranteed results. No lawyer and no referral service can promise an outcome. Pressure to sign now. A real firm will let you take the agreement home. A charge to you. If a referral service asks the injured person for money, stop.
07 The pressure, named out loud
Quick answer
Any service paid by attorneys has a financial reason to connect you with a paying attorney. That is a real conflict of interest, and it does not disappear because a website says it is independent. The only meaningful answer is a written standard, applied the same way every time, and a willingness to tell you when you do not need a lawyer at all.
Most sites in this category resolve this tension by not mentioning it. We would rather put it in a heading. Here is the honest shape of the problem, and what we do about each part of it.
The pull toward saying yes. Because we earn nothing on a case nobody takes, there is an obvious temptation to encourage every reader toward representation. The counterweight is a published editorial standard and a willingness to write the sentence that costs us money: plenty of small claims with clear liability and modest medical bills are handled perfectly well without a lawyer, and paying a third of a small recovery for help you did not need is a bad trade.
The pull toward the biggest payer. This one is answered structurally rather than with a promise. The criteria that decide which attorney hears about a case are published, they are about capability rather than payment, and they are the same criteria we would want applied to our own families. You can read the full standard on our page about how we vet attorneys.
The pull toward soft language. The lazy version of this page uses words like "partner" and "trusted network" to blur who is paying whom. We use the word fee, we say who pays it, and we say when. If any sentence on this site ever reads as though we are hiding the arrangement, it is a drafting failure and we want to hear about it.
Bottom line: a conflict you can see and check is manageable. A conflict a site refuses to describe is the one that should worry you.
08 What happens after you submit
Quick answer
Your request is read by a person, checked against the type of case and the state you are in, and either matched to an attorney who handles that work or answered with the reason it is not a fit. Nobody is charged anything at any point in this sequence, and you can stop it at any step.
1
You send a short summary
The form asks what happened, roughly when, where you are, and how to reach you. It takes about two minutes and it is private. Filling it in does not hire anyone and does not create an attorney client relationship.
2
A person reads it
We look at the case type, the state, the apparent deadline pressure, and whether the facts suggest a claim worth an attorney's time. This is a practical screen, not legal advice about your case.
3
We match, or we tell you we cannot
If your matter fits a firm that handles this exact work in your state, we make the introduction. If it does not fit, we say so plainly and point you somewhere more useful rather than passing you along anyway.
4
The attorney contacts you directly
The consultation is between you and that firm. Ask about experience with your case type, who will actually handle the file, and how fees and case costs work. Nothing is signed until you decide to sign it.
5
We are paid only if you hire and the case resolves
If you retain the firm and the matter later resolves, the firm pays us a referral fee out of its own fee. If you hire nobody, or hire someone else, or the case goes nowhere, we are paid nothing and you still owe nothing.
You can start that sequence from the free case review page, or from any button on this one. Either route reaches the same short form.
09 Where our money does not come from
Quick answer
We do not sell your contact details to unrelated marketers, we do not auction your case to whichever firm bids highest that day, and we do not take payment to write a favorable article about a law firm. The only revenue line is the referral fee described on this page.
The reason to spell out the negative space is that several of these practices are common in legal lead generation, and a reader has no way to tell them apart from the outside. Naming what we do not do gives you something specific to hold us to.
Not a data broker. Information you send is used to evaluate your request and, if it is a fit, to introduce you to an attorney. It is not merchandise to be resold into unrelated marketing lists.
Not an auction. Some platforms route each new inquiry to whoever is paying the most in that moment. That model optimizes for the platform's revenue and against the client's fit, and it is the model this site was built to avoid.
Not paid editorial. No firm buys coverage here. Where a page mentions a legal standard, a statute, or a case, it cites the primary source so you can check it without taking our word for anything.
Disclosure duty
A connection you would not expect has to be disclosed
16 C.F.R. § 255.5, revised 2023
The Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides interpret section 5 of the FTC Act. Where a connection between an endorser and a seller might materially affect the weight or credibility of an endorsement, and an audience would not reasonably expect that connection, it must be disclosed clearly and conspicuously. In the 2023 revision the Commission defined that phrase to mean difficult to miss and easily understandable, and said that in an interactive medium such as a website the disclosure must be unavoidable. Cornell LII
That standard is the reason this page is linked in the site navigation and in the footer of every page rather than buried. A disclosure a reader has to hunt for does not meet the definition of unavoidable, and it does not deserve to.
Your call, either way
Knowing where you stand costs nothing. Hiring anyone is still up to you.
10 How to check any service, including us
Quick answer
Ask any referral service five direct questions about money, and compare the answers to what its own state bar requires. A service that answers plainly is showing you the arrangement. A service that changes the subject has told you something too.
These are the questions we would ask, and they are the questions we expect to be asked. None of them require legal training to evaluate.
Who pays you, how much, and at what point in the process?
Does any part of what I recover go to you rather than to my attorney?
Are you a law firm, and if not, who actually gives the legal advice?
Does paying you more get a firm more of my kind of case?
Are you registered or certified as a referral service in my state, and where can I confirm that?
Two outside checks are worth more than any answer a website gives you. Your state bar can confirm whether an individual attorney is licensed and in good standing, and whether any discipline is on record. That same bar publishes how referral services are regulated where you live. Neither check costs anything, and both take a few minutes.
If our answers hold up and you want to go further, the criteria we apply before any introduction are set out on our page about how to find a lawyer. If they do not hold up, we would genuinely rather hear it than keep the referral.
Sources and authorities
Every rule, statute, case, and fee limit on this page is cited to a primary source or to the regulator that issued it. Nothing here is drawn from another firm's summary.
Professional conduct rules
Model Rules of Professional Conduct r. 7.2, Communications Concerning a Lawyer's Services: Specific Rules, and Comment 5. American Bar Association.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct r. 1.5, Fees, including the contingent fee writing requirement in paragraph (c). American Bar Association.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct r. 5.4, Professional Independence of a Lawyer. American Bar Association.
Rules Regulating The Florida Bar 4-7.22, Referrals, Directories and Pooled Advertising, and the Bar's qualifying provider guidance. The Florida Bar.
Statutes and court rules
California Business and Professions Code section 6155, certification of lawyer referral services. Justia.
New Jersey Court Rule 1:21-7, Contingent Fees, including the tiered limits in paragraph (c) and the net recovery calculation in paragraph (d). New Jersey Courts.
Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, 16 C.F.R. pt. 255, revised at 88 Fed. Reg. 48092 (July 26, 2023). eCFR.
Disclosure of material connections, 16 C.F.R. section 255.5. Cornell LII.
Case law
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1977). Cornell LII.
Jackson v. LegalMatch.com, 42 Cal. App. 5th 760, No. A152442 (Cal. Ct. App. 1st Dist. Nov. 26, 2019). Justia.
In re Amendments to Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 4-7.22, Lawyer Referral Services, 175 So. 3d 779 (Fla. 2015). The Florida Bar.
How we keep this page accurate and worth trusting.
01
Primary sources only
Claims cite the rule, the statute, or the decision itself, not another firm's summary of it.
02
Reviewed and dated
The page shows when it was last reviewed and is updated when the rules or our own model change.
03
Editorial, not legal advice
General information to help you make decisions, not advice about your specific case.
04
Honest about how we operate
We are a referral service, not a law firm, and we are paid by the attorney if you hire through us.
Michael Mangione Verified editor
Legal Research Editor · Founder, The Mangione Group, Inc.
MVA Lawyer Network is edited by Michael Mangione, who has spent more than a decade in personal injury lead generation, client intake, and contingency based law firm marketing. He has sat inside the intake departments this page describes, which is why he insists on publishing the compensation model rather than burying it. Michael is not a practicing attorney and does not give legal advice. Every legal statement on this site is sourced to primary authority, and independent attorneys handle the legal work.
General information, not legal advice. For advice about your specific situation, talk to a licensed attorney.
Is this site really free for me?
Yes. There is no charge to read the site, no charge to request a case review, and no charge to be introduced to an attorney. We do not take a credit card, we do not run a subscription, and we do not invoice you later. The only money we receive comes from a law firm, and only if you hire that firm and your case resolves.
Does the referral fee come out of my settlement?
No. Your fee is the percentage written into the agreement you sign with the law firm, and it does not change because the firm found your case through us. The referral fee is paid by the firm out of the fee it earns, as a cost of running its practice. Florida states the principle in the rule text: a lawyer may not pass the cost of doing business with a referral service on to the client.
Are you a law firm?
No. MVA Lawyer Network is an independent publisher and referral service. We do not practice law, we do not give legal advice, and using this site does not create an attorney client relationship. Any legal work is handled by an independent attorney you hire directly, and that attorney alone is responsible for the advice and representation you receive.
Can a law firm pay you to get more cases?
Paying makes a firm eligible to receive referrals. It does not decide which firm receives yours. We do not run an auction, we do not rank firms by what they pay, and we do not sell featured placement inside our articles. Which attorney hears about a case turns on case type, state licensure and standing, and whether the firm has the resources to handle the matter properly.
How much does the attorney cost?
Personal injury attorneys generally work on a contingency fee, commonly 33 to 40 percent of what they recover, and you owe no attorney fee if there is no recovery. The exact percentage, the treatment of case costs such as experts and records, and whether those costs come out before or after the fee is calculated must all be set out in a written agreement you sign. A few states, including New Jersey, cap the percentage outright.
What is the difference between a referral fee and fee splitting?
Fee splitting is a division of the legal fee, usually between two lawyers, and it has its own rules including client notice in most states. A referral fee paid to a nonlawyer service is treated as a business expense of the firm, because Model Rule 5.4(a) bars a lawyer from sharing legal fees with a nonlawyer. That distinction is the reason a referral does not move the percentage in your agreement.
Is it legal for a website to be paid for referring me to a lawyer?
It depends on the state, which is why there is no single answer. The ABA Model Rules permit a lawyer to pay the usual charges of a qualified referral service and to pay for client leads within limits. California requires the service itself to be certified by the State Bar under Business and Professions Code section 6155. Florida regulates the arrangement through the participating attorney's own obligations under Rule 4-7.22. Your state bar can tell you which framework applies where you live.
Do you sell my information?
No. What you send is used to evaluate your request and, if it is a fit, to introduce you to an attorney who handles that type of case in your state. It is not sold into unrelated marketing lists and it is not auctioned to the highest bidder of the day. If you would rather we did not keep your information at all, ask and we will remove it.
What happens if I submit the form and then change my mind?
Nothing happens and nothing is owed. Submitting a form does not hire anyone, does not create an attorney client relationship, and does not commit you to anything. You can decline the introduction, talk to the attorney and choose someone else, or stop the process entirely. We are paid only if you retain a firm and the case later resolves.
Is my information confidential?
We use the word private rather than confidential, because the distinction matters. What you send us is handled privately and shared only as needed to make an introduction. True legal confidentiality, meaning attorney client privilege, attaches when you have an attorney client relationship with a lawyer, not when a form is submitted to a referral service. Sensitive details are best saved for the attorney.
Why should I trust a site that gets paid by lawyers?
You should not trust it on the strength of a claim. You should check it. Every legal statement here links to the rule or decision it rests on, the compensation model is stated in the navigation rather than hidden in a footer, and the criteria used before any introduction are published. A conflict you can see and verify is a manageable one. A site that will not describe its arrangement is the one to be careful with.
Do I even need a lawyer?
Sometimes no, and we would rather say so. A minor collision with clear liability, modest medical bills, and a cooperative insurer is often resolved without representation, and paying a third of a small recovery for help you did not need is a poor trade. Serious injuries, disputed fault, commercial vehicles, and any claim where an insurer is pushing an early release are a different matter entirely.
Do you cover my state?
We publish for readers in all 50 states, and we work to connect people with attorneys licensed in the state where the claim belongs. Coverage depth varies by state and by case type, and referral rules themselves differ by state. If we do not have an appropriate attorney for your matter, we will tell you that instead of making an introduction that does not fit.
How do I verify an attorney you introduce me to?
Look the attorney up with the state bar where your claim belongs. Every state bar publishes a licensing and discipline lookup, it is free, and it takes a couple of minutes. Confirm the license is active, check for any discipline on record, and then ask the firm directly how many cases like yours it has handled and who in the office will actually be working on your file.
Who reviews the legal content on this site?
Content is researched and reviewed by Michael Mangione, Legal Research Editor, against primary sources. He is not a practicing attorney and does not give legal advice, and we state that rather than implying otherwise. The site does not currently have a named licensed attorney reviewer. We think a reader is better served knowing that than seeing a credential we cannot support.
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