Editorial Policy
Rockpoint Law publishes legal information for car owners who think they bought a lemon. We take that responsibility seriously. People read these pages while they are deciding whether to fight back against a manufacturer, which means the page they read needs to be accurate, current, and written by someone who actually knows the statute. This editorial policy explains how we get there.
How we research
Every page on this site starts with primary sources. State lemon laws live in state code, federal warranty law lives in the United States Code, and the case law that shapes both lives in court opinions. We read the statute first, then the case law interpreting it, then what our own attorneys have argued in front of state and federal courts in Texas, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
We use Westlaw and Lexis for case research. We use the Federal Trade Commission, state attorney general offices, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for consumer-protection context. When a manufacturer issues a technical service bulletin or a recall notice, we pull it from the source — NHTSA's database for recalls, the manufacturer's owner portal for TSBs — not from a summary on someone else's blog.
If our writers cannot verify a claim against a primary source, the claim does not get on the page.
Attorney review
Every legal article is reviewed by a licensed attorney before it publishes. The reviewing attorney has to be admitted in the state the article addresses. A page about the New Jersey Lemon Law is reviewed by an attorney admitted in New Jersey. A page about the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act is reviewed by an attorney admitted in Texas. The reviewer's name and bar admission appear on the post as Reviewed by [Attorney Name], Esq.
The review is not a skim. The reviewing attorney reads the article line by line against the statute, the case law, and our case files. If a sentence is wrong, the reviewing attorney rewrites it or kicks the page back to the writer. Nothing goes live until an attorney signs off.
This is the part most law-firm blogs skip. We do not.
Citation policy
We cite primary sources whenever a primary source exists. That means statutes by code section, court opinions by case name and reporter citation, and federal regulations by Code of Federal Regulations citation. We link the citation to the official source — the state legislature's website for statutes, the court's website or a stable legal database for opinions, ecfr.gov for federal regulations.
For consumer-protection context, we link to the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov, the relevant state attorney general's office, or NHTSA at nhtsa.gov. We do not cite AI summaries, Wikipedia, or content farms. If a secondary source is the only place a claim appears, the claim does not appear on the page.
Numbers get the same treatment. A vehicle repair frequency, a settlement range, a case volume — every number has a source the reader can verify.
Update cadence
Lemon law moves. State legislatures amend their statutes, courts issue new opinions, and manufacturers change their warranty terms. Our update schedule reflects that.
Flagship pages — the state lemon-law overviews, the practice-area pages, the homepage — get a full review every six months. State-by-state pages and city pages get reviewed once a year. Blog posts on narrower topics get reviewed every eighteen months, or sooner if the law changes.
When a state amends its lemon-law statute, every page that touches that statute gets updated within thirty days. The same goes for a published appellate decision that changes how a statute applies. The Last reviewed date at the top of each article tells you exactly when an attorney last read it.
How to report an error
If something on our site is wrong, tell us. Email [email protected] with the article URL, the sentence or claim you think is wrong, and what you think the correct answer is. You do not have to be a lawyer to send a correction. Several of our better corrections have come from readers who own the exact vehicle the article discusses.
We respond to correction requests within five business days. If the correction is right, we update the article, add a note at the top describing what changed, and update the Last reviewed date. If the original was right, we reply and explain why.
We do not silently rewrite history. Material corrections stay flagged on the page so the reader can see what changed.
AI assistance, and where humans take over
We use AI tools — large language models like GPT-4 and Claude — as research aids. They help our writers surface relevant statute sections we might have missed, summarize long court opinions so a human reviewer can read them faster, and check citation formatting. They are not a legal authority, and we do not treat them as a source.
The drafting on this site is done by humans. Every page is written by a person, edited by a person, and reviewed by a licensed attorney. We do not publish AI-generated text without a line-by-line rewrite by a human writer and a full review by an attorney admitted in the relevant state. A page on this site is a page a human wrote and a lawyer signed off on. That is the only way we will publish.
If a page on this site ever appears to contradict that policy, the email above is the fastest way to flag it.
Authors and reviewers
Every article on this site has a byline. The byline names the writer and the reviewing attorney. The reviewing attorney's bio, with bar admissions and law school, lives on our About Us page. Each attorney's state bar profile is linked from their bio so you can verify the license on the bar's own site.
Our writers are not lawyers, but they are not generalists either. We hire writers who specialize in consumer-protection law, warranty law, or automotive technical topics. Most of our team has been writing about lemon law for at least three years.
Talk to us about our content
If you have a question about a page, want to suggest a topic we have not covered, or need to flag something for correction, contact us. For corrections specifically, email [email protected]. For everything else, our regular contact form routes to the right person in our office in Dallas, Miami, Newark, Manhasset, or Philadelphia.
We read every message. We do not respond with form letters.