How we built the directory
AccidentLawyerReview is a public-data directory of US truck-accident and personal injury law firms. This page documents every data source we use, how each record is verified against the issuing public registry, and how listings are ordered. Everything below is reproducible from public sources.
The shorter version of this — what the directory is and is not — lives on the about page. This page is the operational detail: sources, queries, verification, ordering.
Which firms appear in the directory
A firm enters the directory when we can verify, from a public source, that the firm exists, operates as a personal-injury practice in the United States, and has at least one attorney licensed in a US state whose license we can look up directly.
Concretely, that means a firm typically arrives through one of two paths:
- Google-first discovery. Google Maps lists firms in a target city with the "personal injury" or "accident lawyer" category. We index the listing, then look up the lead attorney(s) on the relevant State Bar's public registry.
- Bar-first discovery. Where a state publishes a bulk attorney-registration dataset (e.g. New York's data.ny.gov feed), we scan the dataset for company names containing PI keywords (INJURY, ACCIDENT, TRIAL, MALPRACTICE…), canonicalise the firm name, and add firms that weren't already indexed.
Data sources
- State Bar Association public registries. The authoritative source for an attorney's license status, admission date, and disciplinary history. Each state runs its own registry; we link directly from each attorney's profile to the source.
- Google Business Profile / Google Maps. Aggregate rating and review count. We cite the firm's Google Maps URL on the profile.
- Firm's own website. Founding year, office addresses, fee structure (where the firm publishes one), languages spoken. We cite the firm's own page for each claimed datum.
- Open-data attorney feeds where they exist. Currently New York's Office of Court Administration dataset on data.ny.gov is the only state we use for bulk discovery; more may follow as states publish bulk feeds.
Anything we cannot verify against a public source is left blank on the firm's profile. We do not infer, estimate, or fill in marketing copy.
State Bar attorney verification
For each firm in the directory, we go to the issuing State Bar's official attorney registry and verify the lead attorney's bar number, admission date, and current license status. We publish that data on the firm's profile with a deeplink back to the State Bar registry so any reader can re-check it in one click.
Bar numbers are issued by state courts, not by the firm. License status and disciplinary history are public record. A firm whose claimed attorneys cannot be located in the issuing State Bar's registry is flagged in the dataset; we do not list firms whose attorneys we cannot verify at all.
Current coverage: 786 attorneys verified across 231 firms in 14 states (TX, NY, NV, FL, IN, AZ, PA, LA, TN, CA, IL, GA, WA, AL). Texas: 85 firms via the State Bar of Texas Find-A-Lawyer directory. New York: 42 firms via the NY OCA open data feed. Florida: 42 firms via the Florida Bar member search. Nevada: 12 firms via the State Bar of Nevada. Tennessee: 9 firms via the TN Board of Professional Responsibility. We are expanding to OH, MI, NC, SC, VA, and MA next as State Bar data access permits.
How listings are ordered on state and city pages
State and city directory pages list the firms we have indexed for that jurisdiction. Listings are ordered by the data we have on record, not by editorial favouritism. The current ordering signal combines:
- Number of bar-verified attorneys on file for the firm
- Google Maps rating (where present) weighted by review count
- Tenure (firms with an older founding year listed earlier all else equal)
None of these signals can be paid for. No firm gets a placement bump for any monetary consideration.
What we do not use to order listings
- Advertising spend. A firm that spends more on Google Ads does not rank higher.
- Firm-claimed verdict and settlement totals without external verification.
- Paid placements of any kind. The directory has no sponsored slots.
- SEO authority of the firm's website. Backlink profile is irrelevant to placement.
Update cadence
Each firm's record is re-verified on a quarterly cadence:
- State Bar status re-checked for every attorney on file (a firm in current disciplinary proceedings is flagged or removed)
- Google Maps rating and review count refreshed
- Firm's own published fields rechecked when their website changes meaningfully
- The profile's last-verified timestamp is updated on every pass
Editorial imagery
Photographs on AccidentLawyerReview, including city hero images, are AI-generated documentary-style illustrations produced via OpenAI's image models. They are not photographs of real events, real people, or real attorneys we list. Stock photography for personal-injury legal content is saturated with the same handful of cliches; AI generation lets us match each image to the specific topic of each page without using real-incident photojournalism that would be exploitative.
Corrections
If a record on this site is wrong — an outdated bar status, a wrong address, a missing attorney, a removed firm — please contact us. Material factual errors are corrected within 48 hours of notice. Firms that wish to update their own listing should write to the editorial team via the contact page; there is no sales channel.
Last updated: 2026-05-24. Material changes to methodology carry a revision note and date here.