How We Vet Maritime Injury Attorneys

When we describe an attorney as vetted on this site, we mean we have applied editorial judgment, based on twelve years of experience inside contingency-based law firms, to decide that the attorney is a reasonable specialty fit for the kind of case the reader described. That judgment includes whether maritime injury work is a meaningful share of the attorney's practice, whether the attorney has handled cases that resemble the reader's situation in case type and jurisdiction, and whether the attorney's communication and fee terms have held up in past introductions we have made. Vetted on this site does not mean we have independently audited bar standing, malpractice insurance, or disciplinary history. The What we do not claim section above spells that out in detail.

No. We do not run independent verification of bar standing, disciplinary history, malpractice insurance, or licensure status. Those records are maintained by each state's bar association and disciplinary body, and you can search them yourself in a few minutes. We recommend that every reader confirm an attorney's bar standing through the relevant state bar before retaining them, regardless of how the introduction was made. That recommendation applies to introductions from us, from another site, from a friend, or from a billboard.

After our editor reviews your submission, we identify which case type your situation appears to involve, the likely jurisdiction, and the severity of the injury. We then introduce you to one attorney whose practice has a meaningful focus on that case type and whose past handling of similar matters we have visibility into. We do not run an inventory of attorneys waiting to be assigned in turn. The match is editorial, not algorithmic. If a particular case does not have a clear specialty fit among the attorneys we work with, we will tell you that, and we will point you toward editorial guides on conducting your own search.

Two reasons. First, the right attorney depends on the specific case, the jurisdiction, and the severity of the injury. A generic public list cannot reflect that, which means readers who pick from a list tend to pick wrong more often than readers who get a fitted introduction. Second, public attorney lists tend to operate as directories that funnel readers based on advertising spend or alphabetical order rather than fit. Our model is editorial introduction rather than directory listing, and we believe that better serves an injured worker than a sortable table of names.

Yes. Participating attorneys pay Offshore Injury Help marketing fees out of their own marketing budgets. Those payments do not come out of any recovery you receive, and we do not share in attorney fees or settlement proceeds. We disclose this arrangement clearly on the site, in the footer of every page, and in the What we do not claim section above. The fact that an arrangement exists is the reason transparency matters more here, not less. You should weigh the arrangement when you decide whether to trust an introduction. We try to earn that trust by making the model honest, not by pretending the model does not exist.

We try not to let it. The way we keep the arrangement honest is structural. We introduce one reader to one attorney whose practice fits the case rather than auctioning the inquiry to the highest bidder. If a participating attorney does not fit a particular case, we do not introduce that reader to them, and we tell the reader plainly when we cannot make a clean match. Declining an introduction is, in our view, the more important commitment than making one. It is also the harder commitment to keep when revenue depends on the inquiries that come through, which is why we built the model around per-inquiry introductions rather than volume.

No. Offshore Injury Help is operated by Michael Mangione and The Mangione Group, Inc., which is an independent editorial and intake operation. We are not a law firm, we do not practice law, and no attorney-client relationship is created by using this site. We have working relationships with the attorneys we introduce people to, but we do not share ownership, partnership, employment, or any fee interest with them. Our relationship to those attorneys is the same kind of marketing relationship that exists between any legal-marketing operation and the firms it works with, disclosed plainly rather than buried.

Tell us. You have an absolute right to decline an introduction, interview an attorney before retaining them, and request a different introduction if the first one does not feel right. We will work to introduce you to another qualified specialty attorney, or you can use our editorial guides on how to vet a maritime injury attorney and the questions to ask a maritime lawyer to pursue your own search. There is no penalty and no obligation. Decline at any point, no questions asked.

No. Nobody honest does. Case outcomes depend on facts, evidence, jurisdiction, the conduct of the parties, and many decisions that are made long after an introduction. We do not predict whether your case will settle, win at trial, or recover any particular amount, and any site that quotes you a number before reading your file is telling you something important about how they will treat your case. What we try to do is reduce the chance that you end up with an attorney who is plainly the wrong fit for the case type and jurisdiction you are in. That is a smaller promise than an outcome guarantee, and it is the only kind of promise we are willing to make.

A directory lists attorneys and lets readers pick. A traditional attorney referral service is typically operated by a bar association under specific regulatory rules. Our model is neither. We are an independent editorial resource that publishes guides on maritime injury claims and an intake operation that introduces qualifying readers to one specialty attorney per inquiry. We are a lead generation service that is paid by participating attorneys, and we structure our work to stay clean of the rules that govern formal referral arrangements. The difference matters because the rules that govern bar referral services do not govern us, which means our credibility has to come from disclosure and editorial judgment rather than regulatory oversight. That is why this page exists.