Who writes the guides
Our guides are written and maintained by the Million Dollar Lawyer Editorial Team. They explain injury law in plain English for people who were hurt and their families. They're general information, not legal advice about your situation. For that, talk with a lawyer licensed in your state.
Where the facts come from
Every guide we've written or rewritten since September 2026 follows these rules:
- Laws and rules: every legal rule, deadline, dollar figure and statistic cites its primary source: the statute on the state legislature's website, a court rule or opinion, or a government agency.
- Medical information: U.S. health agencies such as MedlinePlus, the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. When they don't cover a point, we use another national health agency or a peer-reviewed review, and we name it.
- Quotations: statutes and court opinions are quoted exactly, or paraphrased and labeled as a paraphrase.
- What we don't use: other law firms' websites are never a source.
Those guides list their sources at the end, with links.
How each guide is checked
Before a new or rewritten guide is published, a separate fact-check compares every sentence that states a rule, number, date, quotation or case against its source. Anything that doesn't hold up is corrected or cut. The guide is also compared with our other guides, so two pages never state the same rule differently.
What we won't do
- Invent statistics, verdicts, testimonials or settlement "averages". A settlement figure appears only with a real dataset and its year.
- Promise outcomes, or call anyone "the best lawyer".
- Present a result a firm reports as verified when it isn't. How we list and rank lawyers explains how results are labeled.
Dates and updates
Every guide shows the date it was published or last updated. In guides written to these rules, figures that change each year, such as benefit maximums and damage caps, carry an "as of" date. When the law changes, we update the guide and its date.
Older guides
Some of our older guides were written before these rules. They show their original publish date instead of an "Updated" date, and we're rewriting them to this standard, starting with the ones readers use most.
Found a mistake?
If you think something in a guide is wrong or out of date, tell us. We check it against the source, correct the guide if it needs it, and update its date.
Our guides and our directory
The guides and the lawyer directory are kept separate. No firm pays to appear in a guide, and no firm pays for its position in the directory.