Plain-English, source-linked legal guides
General US legal information with practical research checklists and links to primary sources. Not personal legal advice.
Using AI to Understand Legal Documents Safely
A safety-first guide to using AI for legal documents, privacy, privilege, summaries, defined terms, deadlines, missing pages, citations, verification, and lawyer review.
What Counts as Breach of Contract?
A plain-English guide to breach of contract, material breach, minor breach, defenses, damages, notices, cure periods, and what evidence matters.
What Does Pro Bono Mean? Free Legal Help Explained
A plain-English guide to pro bono legal help, legal aid, eligibility, clinics, limited-scope services, contingency fees, public defenders, nonprofit help, and how to prepare.
What Is a Tax Audit and How to Survive One
A practical guide to IRS audits, notices, document requests, taxpayer rights, representation, appeals, records, deadlines, and how to respond without making things worse.
What Is Discovery in a Lawsuit?
A practical guide to discovery, document requests, interrogatories, depositions, subpoenas, admissions, privilege, objections, sanctions, and settlement leverage.
What Is Due Diligence in a Business Deal?
A practical guide to due diligence in business purchases, investments, partnerships, leases, contracts, IP, liabilities, employees, taxes, and closing decisions.
What Is Escrow and How Does It Work?
A practical guide to escrow in real estate and transactions, including deposits, closing funds, title, instructions, disputes, timelines, and when money can be released.
What Is the Statute of Limitations?
A plain-English guide to statutes of limitations, filing deadlines, accrual, discovery rules, tolling, claims, defenses, state differences, and why waiting can destroy a case.
What to Do If Someone Breaches a Contract
A step-by-step guide to responding to breach of contract, preserving evidence, notice and cure, damages, mitigation, demand letters, settlement, arbitration, and lawsuits.
What to Do If You're Being Evicted
A practical guide to eviction notices, court papers, defenses, rent records, repairs, retaliation, emergency rental assistance, settlement, and when to get legal help.
Your Rights Under the Fair Debt Collection Act
A practical guide to debt collector rights, validation notices, harassment, communication limits, disputed debts, time-barred debts, lawsuits, complaints, and documentation.
Your Rights When Stopped by Police
A practical guide to rights during police stops, probable cause, reasonable suspicion, identification, searches, silence, recording, complaints, and what to do afterward.