Editorial Team and Sourcing
LegalGlass is researched, written, and fact-checked by the LegalGlass editorial team. We do not publish under an individual byline. Instead, every factual claim on the site - every fee, deadline, form number, and filing requirement - is traced to a named primary source and linked, so a reader can verify it at the source rather than take our word for it.
We think that is the stronger guarantee. A byline tells you who to trust; a citation lets you check. Each page carries the date it was published, the date it was last reviewed, and a Sources section listing every government record the page relies on.
What counts as a source here
We cite only primary and official records. In practice that means one of four things:
- The state agency that administers the filing - a Secretary of State, Division of Corporations, or Department of Revenue, for fees, forms, and deadlines.
- The IRS - for anything federal: EINs, ITINs, the S-corporation election, self-employment tax, and filing dates.
- The statute or administrative code itself - where a requirement is defined in law rather than described on an agency page.
- The USPTO - for trademark classes, fees, and examination procedure.
Secondary sources - law firm blogs, formation-service marketing pages, aggregator sites - are never used as the basis for a factual claim on this site.
What we do when a number cannot be verified
State fee schedules change, and agency pages are sometimes ambiguous or out of date. When we cannot confirm a specific figure against a primary source, we do not estimate it and we do not carry it over from another site. We describe the requirement qualitatively and link the reader to the agency page where the current amount is published. An omitted number is better than a wrong one.
Review cadence and corrections
Fee and deadline pages are re-checked against their primary sources on an annual cycle, and sooner when a state announces a change. If you find an error, tell us - the corrections page explains how we log and publish fixes, including what was wrong and when it was changed.
On legal credentials
LegalGlass is a reference site, not a law firm, and it does not give advice. We have chosen not to attach attorney or CPA names to pages we did not have an attorney or CPA write, because a credential in a byline that does not reflect who actually did the work is worse than no byline at all. If and when credentialed contributors review specific pages, those pages will name them and link their license verification directly.
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