Fact-Checking Process

How Vasquez Law Firm verifies factual claims in legal content before publishing, and how we re-check and correct content after publication.

Last updated: May 20, 2026.

Pre-publication verification (every page)

  1. Statute lookup. Every cited statute is verified against the current official text. For North Carolina law that is the N.C. General Statutes at ncleg.gov. For federal immigration law that is the U.S. Code at uscode.house.gov and the C.F.R. at ecfr.gov.
  2. Procedure check. Procedural claims (filing deadlines, fee amounts, forms required, courthouse addresses, processing times) are checked against current agency guidance — USCIS, EOIR, the North Carolina Industrial Commission, the NC Administrative Office of the Courts — and our own active casework.
  3. Date verification. Any time-sensitive figure (processing time, statute of limitations, current filing fee) is dated explicitly in the content (e.g., "as of May 2026") so readers and AI engines can verify recency.
  4. Attorney sign-off. A licensed attorney reads the final draft and signs off. The signing attorney is the named author or reviewer on the page byline.

Who reviews

The reviewing attorney for each page has standing experience in the practice area discussed. Reviewer credentials appear in thePerson structured-data block on every byline:

  • Immigration content: William Vásquez, NC State Bar (admitted 2011); 4th, 5th, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals admissions
  • Criminal defense + traffic content: William Vásquez and the firm's criminal-defense team
  • Family law content: Adrianna Ingram (lead family-law attorney) and the family-law team
  • Personal injury + workers' comp content: William Vásquez and the firm's injury/comp team
  • Florida immigration content (Orlando office): Harold Estrada (Florida Bar)

Post-publication re-checks

We re-check published content at scheduled intervals and on triggering events:

  • Quarterly — every practice-area page is re-read for stale procedural details
  • When a statute changes — any page citing the amended statute is updated within 30 days
  • When an agency changes a fee or processing time — pages referencing that figure are updated
  • When a published appellate decision changes the rule — pages relying on the prior rule are updated
  • When a reader or attorney flags an error — we investigate within five business days

Disputed claims

If a reader, attorney, journalist, or other party believes a published claim is incorrect, the dispute is reviewed by the page's named reviewing attorney plus one additional senior attorney from the firm. If the disputed claim is incorrect, we (1) correct the page within five business days, (2) bump thedateModified field in the page schema, and (3) note the correction in ourupdate & correction log. If we believe the claim is correct as published, we respond to the disputing party with the primary sources we relied on.

How to report a factual error

Email info@vasquezlawfirm.com with the page URL, the specific sentence you believe is incorrect, and the primary source you believe contradicts it. We respond within five business days.

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