Why this site exists.
When a lawyer's mistake costs you a case or your money, the hardest part is often finding another lawyer who will look at it before time runs out.
What this site is.
SueMyLawyer.org publishes plain-English guides to legal malpractice: what it is, what it is not, how a claim is proved, and how long you have to bring one in each of the 50 states. It also offers a free case review. If you answer a few questions about what happened, an independent attorney who handles legal malpractice claims in your state may contact you.
We are an attorney advertising and case connection service. We are not a law firm and not a lawyer referral service. We do not give legal advice, we do not evaluate whether a claim has merit, and we do not endorse, rank, or recommend any lawyer.
Why it exists.
Two problems come up again and again for people who believe their lawyer let them down.
Finding a lawyer who will sue another lawyer is hard. Many attorneys will not take a case against a colleague in their own town, and most never handle malpractice work at all. People call firm after firm and hear no, without learning why.
The deadline is short and easy to miss. Legal malpractice claims have their own statute of limitations, and in some states it is as short as one year. The clock can start before you realize anything went wrong. By the time many people understand what happened, they are close to the end, or past it.
This site tries to fix both. The guides explain the rules and the deadlines in plain language, sourced to the statutes and court decisions that set them. The case review puts your situation in front of attorneys who actually take these cases.
How we make money.
Participating attorneys and law firms pay us a flat advertising fee to be connected with people who request a case review. They never pay us a percentage of their fees or of any recovery, and what they pay has no effect on what our guides say. Reading the site is free, and so is the case review. You are never obligated to hire anyone.
The full details are in our advertising disclosure and privacy policy.
Who writes it.
Our guides are written and maintained by the SueMyLawyer.org editorial team, and they carry that collective byline. We work from primary sources: state statutes, court rules, appellate opinions, bar association publications, and American Bar Association reports. Every state page is checked against its sources and dated, and we correct errors when readers point them out.
Read our editorial standards for how we source, verify, and correct our work, or see how the case review works.
Get in touch.
Questions, corrections, and privacy requests go to hello@suemylawyer.org. Please do not email the details of your case. Nothing sent to that address is confidential or protected by attorney-client privilege.