Everything we publish, from service pages to guides, notes and the state rules library, follows the rules on this page. They exist so you can trust a number on this site the way you’d trust evidence: because you can check where it came from.
Sources for every fact
- Every statistic names its source, linked where it appears and listed at the end of the page with the date we checked it.
- Primary sources first: statutes, court and bar rules, agency pages and platform policies. When we use a survey, a vendor report or a news story, we say so, and we label vendor surveys as vendor surveys.
- Allegations are labeled. Facts from lawsuits are described as allegations, with the docket number, never as findings.
- No invented numbers. Examples built from invented numbers are labeled ILLUSTRATIVE.
Dated reviews
Every page carries a “last reviewed” date. Pages about rules, deadlines and platform policies are reviewed at least once a year, and sooner when a rule changes. The state rules library shows each rule’s status and the date it was last checked.
How a page is made
- A question worth answering, chosen from what law firms and their clients actually ask.
- Research from primary sources, with each source saved and dated.
- A draft by a writer. Software, including AI tools, may help with research or a first draft in English.
- A human check of every sentence and every source. No AI-written claim is published without a person reviewing it, and no Spanish we publish is drafted by AI.
- A final read for plain English and for our rules: no hype, no promises of rankings, leads, cases or AI mentions.
- Publication with the review date and the sources.
Google asks publishers to make clear who created content, how and why (Google), and treats many pages made mainly to rank as spam (Google). We publish only pages with something useful and true to say.
Corrections
- We correct errors on the page, with the date and a short note of what changed. We never silently change a published number.
- Errors in our favor are handled exactly like errors against us.
- Changes to The Probative Standard follow its own versioning rules and are logged in its changelog.
Independence
We don’t accept payment to mention a product or a firm, and we never publish paid reviews. If we ever earn a commission on a tool we write about, we say so on the page.
Not legal advice
Our pages explain how rules and platforms generally work. They aren’t legal advice, and your own counsel and your state bar have the final word.
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