Legal costs and timelines, in plain numbers. Not a law firm.
Every figure sourced and dated. Updated 2026-09-05.
What this site is: an informational publisher and an attorney advertising / lead-generation service.
What it is not: a law firm; a source of legal advice; a lawyer referral service. We do not evaluate, endorse, or select attorneys for you, and nothing here forms an attorney-client relationship.
How money flows: attorneys pay a flat advertising fee for consumer requests. The fee is the same whether or not any case results, and never varies with a case, a settlement, or an outcome.
What happens to a request you submit: your request and contact details are shared with an attorney so they may contact you, under the consent you give on the form, which you can read before checking the box. You may decline any contact; consent is not a condition of anything.
Geography: request handling is being introduced state by state, beginning with Texas, and is not yet active.
What Texas permits. Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 7.03(e) lets a lawyer pay "reasonable fees for advertising and public relations services," and Comment 13 to that rule says a lawyer may pay for client leads, including internet leads, on conditions: the lead generator must not recommend the lawyer, must not state or imply that it is recommending the lawyer, must not imply the lawyer paid nothing to be there, and must not analyze a person's legal problem when deciding which lawyer receives the request. This site is engineered to those conditions, and our publishing system automatically rejects any page that drifts across them.
What Texas restricts. Under Texas Occupations Code Section 952.002(1), a "lawyer referral service" is any person or service "that refers potential clients to lawyers," whatever it calls itself. Section 952.101 forbids operating one without a certificate from the State Bar, and the chapter's eligibility provisions make that certificate available only to governmental entities and specific nonprofit organizations. A for-profit company cannot hold that certificate at all, which means a for-profit may not lawfully run a referral service in Texas, full stop.
Why our model sits on the permitted side of that line. TheLawFacts does not refer. You read our pages, you decide to ask a question, and one attorney who paid a flat advertising fee may respond. Specifically, we do not recommend or endorse any attorney; we do not match you to an attorney based on the merits of your situation or any analysis of your legal problem; we take no fee tied to any case, settlement, or outcome; and nothing on this site implies any attorney is more competent than any other. Those four refusals are not marketing restraint. They are the legal design of the business.
Said honestly: this page describes our own good-faith reading of the rules this model was designed around, done as careful research with the sources below. We are not lawyers, this is not legal advice, and no attorney or compliance professional has confirmed this analysis for us. If any authority ever tells us we have it wrong, we will change the model, not the disclosure.
A few quick questions about your situation first; your contact details come last, and nobody contacts you unless you check the consent box at the end. We do not select or evaluate any attorney for you; the disclosure explains how this works.