Editorial Standards

Who writes

Articles are written by our experts, by outside contributors — including sitting and retired judges, arbitrators, and practitioners — or by the firm. Where an individual wrote a piece, the byline names them and links to their credentials wherever we hold a profile. Where the work is institutional, the byline is the firm rather than a person, because attributing an institutionally-produced article to an individual would misstate who stands behind it.

Bylines are validated against a registry when the site is built. A name that does not resolve cannot be published, which is what stops a mis-parsed or corrupted byline becoming an assertion about a person who does not exist.

How claims are checked

Case citations, court names, dates, and procedural posture are checked against the underlying source before publication, and corrections are applied before assembly rather than afterward. Our research reports carry a written citation-verification log recording what was checked, what was corrected, and what was confirmed accurate — including the cases where a draft overstated its source and was narrowed to match.

Nothing here is a substitute for legal advice, and an article describing how a court has ruled is not a prediction of how another court will rule on different facts.

What we decline to publish

• Thin pages. An article carrying fewer than 250 words of prose is marked noindex automatically. The URL keeps working, but the page stops competing in search results with substantive analysis.
• Other publishers' work as our own. Where a piece appeared first elsewhere, the page names the original publication and points search engines to it as the canonical source rather than claiming the content.
• Identifiable client matters. Every case study on this site is anonymized. That is enforced structurally — a case study that is not marked anonymized will not build.

Client confidentiality and testimonials

Case studies describe sector, posture, and method — never a client name, and never facts sufficient to identify one. Client quotations are attributed by role and organization type only, and each has been reviewed and confirmed to reflect a genuine client statement. Attorney advertising rules treat testimonials as regulated communications, so a quotation that reads as a client's words is one.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we fix the article rather than quietly removing it, and pages carry the date they were last updated alongside their publication date. If you believe something we have published is inaccurate, write to info@lawandforensics.com and tell us what is wrong and how you know. We would rather be corrected than cited for something we got wrong.