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Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: March 2026

FTC Disclosure

LegalStack Review participates in affiliate programs. When you click certain product links on this site and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. We only recommend products we have thoroughly evaluated. Affiliate relationships do not influence our editorial ratings or recommendations.

How affiliate links work

When you click a product link on LegalStack Review and visit a vendor's website, a tracking cookie is placed in your browser by our affiliate network. If you make a purchase during that session or within the cookie's attribution window (typically 30 to 90 days), we receive a commission from the software company.

The commission comes out of the vendor's marketing budget — it doesn't add anything to the price you pay. The price you see on the vendor's website is identical to what you'd pay if you navigated there directly.

Which products have affiliate links

Not every product we review has an affiliate program. We review products regardless of whether they pay a commission — if a tool is worth covering for solo attorneys, it gets covered. Affiliate links are present for the following products:

Product Category Affiliate Network
Clio Practice Management Impact
MyCase Practice Management Impact
Lawmatics Client Intake & CRM PartnerStack
Casetext AI Legal Research PartnerStack
Practice Panther Practice Management Awin
Filevine Practice Management CJ Affiliates
Semrush Legal Marketing Impact

If a product we review is not in this table, there's no affiliate relationship and no commission involved in our coverage.

How we identify affiliate links

Affiliate links on this site carry the rel="nofollow sponsored" attribute, which signals to search engines that a commercial relationship exists. We also include an FTC disclosure notice at the top of every review, comparison, and roundup article that contains affiliate links.

We never cloak or disguise the destination of our affiliate links. If a link goes to Clio's website, you can see that before clicking.

Our editorial principles

What we do

  • Test every product we review independently
  • Assign ratings based on actual feature evaluation
  • Cover products with no affiliate program if they're worth it
  • Disclose affiliate relationships on every relevant page
  • Update reviews when products change significantly
  • State clearly when we recommend against a product

What we don't do

  • Accept payment to publish or rank reviews
  • Adjust ratings based on commission rates
  • Publish sponsored content without disclosure
  • Recommend products we wouldn't use ourselves
  • Accept "gifted" subscriptions in exchange for favorable coverage
  • Rank products based on who pays the highest commission

Why commissions don't drive our rankings

It might seem like a conflict of interest for a review site to earn money from the products it reviews. We understand that concern. Here's our actual position on it.

A product with a 40% commission that doesn't serve solo attorneys well will always rank below a product with a 10% commission that genuinely does. Recommending bad tools damages reader trust, which destroys the publication faster than any short-term commission income makes up for.

We also review products with no affiliate program at all — including some that outrank affiliated products in our roundups. If editorial independence wasn't real, we wouldn't do that.

The affiliate model works when readers trust the recommendations enough to click through and buy. That trust depends entirely on being honest. We have every financial incentive to maintain that honesty, not undermine it.

Our editorial standards in practice

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Independent testing
Every tool we review is set up and tested in workflows that mirror a real solo practice. We don't review from press releases or vendor demos alone.
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Real pricing only
We include actual plan names and prices in every review. If pricing is unclear or changes frequently, we say so and link to the vendor's current pricing page.
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Honest limitations
Every review includes genuine cons and limitations. A review with no criticism isn't honest. If a tool has a real weakness for solo practitioners, we say so.
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Regular updates
Legal software changes often. We revisit reviews when major product updates ship, pricing changes, or tools are acquired. Every review shows its last-tested date.

FTC compliance

This disclosure is provided in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission's guidelines on endorsements and testimonials (16 C.F.R. Part 255). The FTC requires that material connections between a reviewer and a product be clearly disclosed. Affiliate relationships constitute a material connection, and we disclose them accordingly on every relevant page of this site.

If you have questions about a specific review or want to know whether an affiliate relationship exists for a particular product, you can email us directly.

Questions about our disclosure practices?

If something doesn't look right or you want clarification about any of our affiliate relationships, reach out.

hello@legalstackreview.com