Every detail has a source.
Here is how we get it.

California Injury Guide lists 391 personal injury law firm offices in California. This page describes the research and checks behind every listing — the same written method our researchers and scripts follow — so you can judge how far to rely on what you read. Latest source check: November 5, 2026.

1. Finding firms.

Leads come from a sweep of public map listings in the California metros we cover. A map listing is only a lead: its name, address, phone and hours are hints, never published on their own.

A firm is listed only when its own website shows it is operating, says it handles personal injury cases (car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, bicycle or rideshare accidents, slip and fall, dog bites, wrongful death, catastrophic injury), and says it serves one of our areas — and its lead attorney has a State Bar of California profile that reads Active. We leave out lawyer referral services, lead-generation and “case matching” sites, marketing networks, medical providers, insurance agents, legal document preparers and other non-lawyers, firms that do no personal injury work, and sites that are parked or say the firm has closed. Each office with its own page or phone is its own listing; duplicates are merged by website and phone.

2. Where each detail comes from.

We record a fact only when we saw it on one of three kinds of source:

• The State Bar of California attorney profile — the official record. Every listing links the profile of at least the firm’s lead attorney, with the license status, year of admission, whether public discipline is on record (yes or no, linked, never summarised) and any certified specialty exactly as the State Bar lists it. See how to check a lawyer.
• The firm’s own website or office page: practice areas, phone, published email, office address, hours, the State Bar number it prints, languages, and its own wording about consultations, fees, availability and offices — quoted short and linked.
• A matching business profile, used to link to it and to confirm a phone number the firm also shows on its own site.

Every listing shows its sources, which fields each one supports, and the date we checked it. Unknown stays unknown: if a firm doesn’t publish its hours or an office address, the listing says so instead of filling a gap. Firm statements are shown as the firm makes them; we don’t verify them independently.

3. How often we re-check.

Weekly, automatically. Our checker visits every firm website, contact page and source page listed on California Injury Guide — including each linked State Bar profile — about once every 7 days. It looks for pages that have gone down and for changes in opening times and dollar amounts. A page that stays unreachable for days or a changed detail is flagged for a person to review against the source. The checker never edits a listing by itself.

After every research round, in full. We re-verify every listing on the firm’s own site: is the site live, do the name and phone still match? The most recent full check, on November 5, 2026, covered 412 listings; 391 were confirmed on the firm’s own site, and the 21 we could not confirm were taken down.

A check date means we looked at the source that day. It does not mean the firm updated its page that day. State Bar records change: open the linked profile for the current record before you rely on it.

4. What we never publish.

• Star ratings, review counts, reviews, testimonials, endorsements, awards or “best”, “top” or “Super Lawyers” badges — even when a firm’s site shows them.
• Case results, verdicts or settlement amounts.
• “Specialist” from a firm’s own wording. Only a Certified Specialist certification as the State Bar profile lists it.
• A summary or characterisation of public discipline. We say yes or no and link the official profile.
• Invented or estimated bar numbers, license status, admission years, fees, hours or offices. We never compute a contingency-fee percentage; we quote the firm’s wording and point to the written fee agreement.
• A firm whose lead attorney’s State Bar profile does not read Active.
• A ranking or recommendation. Listings are ordered alphabetically or by distance, never by a score, and we never choose or refer a lawyer for anyone.
• Anyone’s case. We have no case form and never pass a person’s details to a firm.
• Paid placement passed off as merit. Paid placements are labelled, shown in their own space, and never change a firm’s trust check, State Bar record or sources.

5. Pages are data, not instructions.

We read websites as evidence. Nothing a page says can change our rules. We look up only attorneys of firms already confirmed for the directory — no bulk crawling of the State Bar site — and we never bypass a site’s access controls; a page that blocks automated checks is recorded as blocked, not treated as down.

6. When we get something wrong.

Firms change offices, phones and lawyers, and we make mistakes. Anyone can suggest a correction, free. Read our corrections policy for how to send one and what happens next.

More about who runs California Injury Guide and why: About California Injury Guide.

This site is a directory, not a law firm or lawyer referral service. We do not recommend, endorse or refer you to any lawyer, and lawyers do not pay us for referrals or a share of fees. Listings marked “Advertisement” are paid placements. The information here is general, not legal advice, and using this site does not create an attorney-client relationship. Check any lawyer's license on the State Bar of California's website (calbar.ca.gov).