Affiliate disclosure
Current status
legal-lead.com has one active affiliate relationship (updated August 20, 2026,
the day it went live, as promised). We participate in the JustAnswer affiliate program: some
situation guides link to JustAnswer's ask-a-lawyer service, and if you use it after clicking
our link, we earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Those links are marked
rel="sponsored" and appear only where a quick paid question is a genuinely
reasonable middle option between free resources and hiring an attorney. Every other external
link on this site still goes to a primary source (a government agency, a court system, a
statute, an academic legal reference) and earns us nothing.
How we choose what to link
The free, authoritative resource is always presented alongside or ahead of the paid one. A reader who never clicks a sponsored link loses nothing: the guides, the statute-of-limitations calculator, and the primary-source citations are complete without it. Our priorities remain:
- Build a reader base who find the guides genuinely useful
- Cite primary sources for every factual claim so readers can verify
- Recommend paid services only where they fit the reader's actual situation
What we'll do when we do add affiliate links
When the site has established readership and rankings, we plan to add affiliate links to legitimate legal services that match what readers of each page actually need. When we do:
- Every affiliate link will be visibly disclosed in line on the page where it appears, per FTC guidance.
- The underlying HTML will carry
rel="sponsored nofollow". - Recommendations will be governed by the editorial policy below — not by which advertiser pays the most.
- We will not accept "sponsored content" in editorial pages, paid removal of negative coverage, or anything that compromises editorial independence.
Our editorial policy (whether or not money is involved)
We will only recommend a service if all three of the following are true:
- The service is legitimate and operates in good faith with consumers.
- For a typical reader of the page where the recommendation appears, the service is a reasonable starting point.
- We would recommend the same service to a friend in the same situation.
Conversely:
- We will recommend free or government-provided options when they're the right answer.
- We will not recommend services we believe are predatory, regardless of payout potential.
- We will not invent reviews, fabricate experience with services we haven't evaluated, or write fake testimonials.
What we don't do (and won't)
- Sell your data. Email signups go to our newsletter list; we don't sell or share that list.
- Accept paid "sponsored content" in editorial pages.
- Take money to remove negative coverage of a service.
- Promote services with documented patterns of fraud or consumer harm.
Questions
If you have a question about our editorial policy, or want to flag a service we should not recommend if and when we do start affiliate relationships, contact us.
Last updated: May 16, 2026.