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AccidentLawyerReview is an independent editorial publication. We are not a law firm.

How we research and rank law firms

Every editorial ranking on AccidentLawyerReview is built on a published methodology. No hidden criteria. No pay-to-play. This page explains exactly how we do it.

Which firms we consider

For each city money page, we start by identifying every law firm that:

Firms that don't meet these criteria are excluded from the review pool — not because they're bad, but because we don't have enough data to evaluate them fairly.

Data sources

All rankings are built from publicly available data:

How we weight the criteria

Rankings are not a single number — we evaluate fit-for-purpose. A firm excellent for catastrophic injury cases may rank lower for routine slip-and-fall cases, and vice versa.

For each ranked firm, we consider:

What we DON'T use

How often we update

Every ranking is re-verified every 90 days:

When we make a substantive change (a firm moved up or down, or was removed), we note it in the page's revision history.

Conflicts of interest

We may receive a referral fee when readers contact a featured firm through our site. This does not influence editorial rankings. Specifically:

Corrections policy

If you spot an error in our content — incorrect firm data, outdated reviewer credentials, broken citation, anything else — please contact us. We aim to verify and correct material errors within 48 hours, with a noted revision on the affected page.

Questions about our methodology

If you're a lawyer or law firm with questions about how you were ranked, or feedback on our criteria, we're open to that conversation. Get in touch.