Editorial standards.
People use these pages to decide whether to act before a deadline passes. That is the reason for every rule below.
Primary sources only.
Every legal rule we state comes from a primary or authoritative source: state statutes, court rules, appellate court opinions, publications of state bars and their disciplinary and client protection bodies, and reports of the American Bar Association. When we cite a court decision, we cite the decision itself. We do not treat law firm marketing pages, forums, or other legal content sites as sources for a rule of law.
Where courts in a state disagree, or the law is unsettled, we say so instead of picking the answer that reads best.
Every state page is verified and dated.
Each state page and each row of our statute of limitations table is checked against the statute and the leading cases that interpret it. Each page shows the date it was last verified and lists its sources, so you can check our work. We review state pages on a regular schedule and whenever we learn of a change in the law.
Machine assistance is never the source.
We may use software, including AI tools, to help draft, organize, or check our writing. No legal fact produced by an AI tool is published unless a person on our team has verified it against a primary source. A statute number, a deadline, or a case holding appears on this site only after it has been confirmed in the source itself.
Plain English, without false comfort.
We write for people who are not lawyers. We explain the hard parts too: that losing a case is not always malpractice, that most claims require proof you would have done better with a careful lawyer, and that fee arbitration or a bar grievance is sometimes the better route. We do not promise outcomes and we do not publish invented examples presented as real cases.
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Collective byline.
Our content is published under the byline of the SueMyLawyer.org editorial team. The team is responsible for every page as a group. Our guides are general legal information and are not legal advice.
Corrections.
If you find an error, email hello@suemylawyer.org with Correction in the subject line, a link to the page, and a source if you have one. We review every report. When we confirm an error in a legal rule or deadline, we fix it, update the page's verified date, and note the correction on the page. Small fixes to spelling or wording are made without a note.