At its source
The rule you are working under
A lawyer shall not make a false or misleading communication about the lawyer or the lawyer's services.
The comments to the rule treat a communication as misleading when it is likely to create an unjustified expectation about the results a lawyer can achieve — which is why past results normally need qualifying language beside them. Your own state's rule may go further; several do.
Hazelsong does not interpret this rule and does not make anyone compliant with it. It gives you the record and the controls; the judgment stays yours.
What it does
What Hazelsong does about it
It marks a promised result before you publish it
On Starter and Pro, a testimonial's typed words are read on arrival while the month's readings last; anything not read says so. A sentence that predicts an outcome, names a figure, or claims a specialization is flagged with the reason, and sits in Pending until you decide.
It keeps the permission, in writing, with the date
Your client checks off where you may show their words — website, social media, ads — and the exact sentence they agreed to is stored beside the testimonial and travels in your export.
It carries your disclaimer under the wall
Write the line your jurisdiction requires once, and it appears beneath your testimonials wherever the wall is embedded.
It will not help you ask only the happy clients
A 0-to-10 question is sold elsewhere with routing attached: the high answers to a public review, the rest to a private form. That is soliciting selectively, and a bar that reads your advertising as a communication about your services is not a place to be doing it. Here the score changes the wording of the question and nothing else — everybody is offered the same place to write, and your own figure counts every answer rather than the ones you published.
A reader can check how any of it was collected
Every testimonial you publish links to its own record, on our address rather than yours: how it arrived, which permission was given and by whom, whether it was read before publication, whether a part was removed and whether anything was given for it. Built from what was stored when it happened, so it is a record rather than a claim.
It removes a detail without rewriting the testimony
A client's phone number, an opposing party's name, a case number: Hazelsong replaces that span with [removed] and shows you what it took. It cannot reword the rest — the guard throws the suggestion away if a single word changed.
What it gives you is the thing most firms do not have at all: every client testimonial with its permission attached, read for risk before it reaches your site, and a record you can show if anyone asks.
Before anything is public
Read for what your rule cares about
A promised result, a figure, a claim of specialization, a client's private detail — each is marked with the words that triggered it and one plain sentence of why, and nothing is published until you approve it.
How the reading worksEvery word arrives as they wrote it — even the 555-0142 they meant to leave out.
Limits, stated
What it does not do
- Hazelsong does not write your disclaimer and does not decide what it must say.
- Hazelsong does not know your state's advertising rule, and does not claim to make you compliant with it.
- Nothing here is legal advice. Your bar's rule, and your own judgment, govern.
Your clients already wrote the words
Send one link and their words arrive here instead — with the date, with the permission, and read for risk before you publish.