Editorial Standards
The rules we hold ourselves to when publishing legal and statistical information. Written so you can hold us to them.
Every claim is tied to a source
Legal statements cite the statute, regulation, jury instruction or decision they come from. Statistics cite the dataset, the agency and the data year. Those citations live in a single verified register, and the page that makes a claim displays the citation for that exact claim. The text and the citation are the same record, so they cannot drift apart when one is edited.
We distinguish official from secondary sources
Where we read something on the issuing body's own site, we mark it as an official source. Where we read it on an established legal database instead, we mark it as secondary and say so on the page. We do not present the second as though it were the first.
One specific limitation applies across this site: the California Legislature's own database blocks automated access. Statutory text here was cross-checked across multiple independent legal databases and corroborated against official California guidance, but it has not been read on the Legislature's own site. That is disclosed in the sources block wherever it applies.
Uncertainty is published, not smoothed over
Where sources disagree, we say so and give both. Where something is a modelled estimate rather than a count, we label it. Where a figure does not exist, we say it does not exist rather than interpolating one. Where a rule is genuinely fact-specific, we say that rather than offering a rule that sounds cleaner than reality.
We show when things were checked
Every guide displays when it was last reviewed. Every fact carries the date its source was checked. Law changes, and a page that does not tell you how old it is cannot be assessed.
What we do not publish
No testimonials, no case results, no settlement figures, no star ratings, no awards, no press logos, no user counts. No settlement calculators or case value estimators, because the number they produce would be invented. No attorney profiles that have not been verified.
Where a section of this site has no real content yet, it shows an empty state that says so, rather than sample data that looks real.
We do not give legal advice
Everything here is general information about how things usually work in California. It is not advice about your situation, it cannot account for facts we do not know, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and record that we did. Our corrections policy sets out how.
Review before launch
This site is new. Content has been researched and sourced to the standard above, but has not yet been reviewed by a licensed California attorney. Until that review has happened, treat everything here as carefully sourced general information rather than as legally verified. Pages that have not been attributed to a named author or reviewer say so on the page itself.