What this publication is
Lawsuit Intelligencer is an editorial publication covering mass torts, product liability, toxic exposure litigation, plaintiff-side legal marketing, and the business of plaintiff-side law — including the technologies and tools reshaping how that business is done. We publish bylined analysis written for attorneys, journalists, and the firms working inside the litigation industry, not for consumers researching individual claims.
The name borrows from the 18th- and 19th-century American newspaper tradition — the intelligencer as gatherer and conveyor of intelligence — applied now to a litigation industry being reshaped by both legal and technological change.
The questions we cover are the ones that don't fit on a consumer legal site or in a law firm's marketing copy. Why intake networks are structured the way they are. What state regulatory action means when the federal floor is contracting. How referral economics actually work. What happens to product liability doctrine when the defective product is an AI system. How AI is reshaping intake, case valuation, and the work of plaintiff-side firms. The analytical work that's useful to people inside the industry and rarely available to people outside it.
Who edits it
Lawsuit Intelligencer is published and edited by David Meldofsky, a California-licensed attorney. He is the founder of Lawsuit Informer, which provides plain-English public legal education on lawsuits and consumer rights, and Lawsuit Center, which organizes case-review information by lawsuit category.
His writing has appeared in Attorney at Law Magazine, Law360, and the Daily Journal, with commentary on consumer legal education, PFAS regulation, drinking water standards, and litigation risk.
Lawsuit Intelligencer is the editorial layer of that ecosystem. The other two sites serve consumers. This one serves the legal industry — and the audience watching that industry change.
Editorial independence
Lawsuit Intelligencer is independent of any specific case, claim, MDL, or law firm covered. The publication does not accept payment for editorial coverage, does not run sponsored content disguised as articles, and does not coordinate coverage with firms that may benefit from particular framings. The editor and contributors disclose financial interests at the top of any piece in which they have skin in the game — including ownership of related sites, active representation of parties discussed, or relationships with referenced products or service providers.
The byline always tells you who wrote a piece. The disclosures at the top tell you what they have at stake. Both should be visible without scrolling.
Coverage
Mass torts and product liability. PFAS, AFFF, talc, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, MDL practice, and the doctrines moving through them.
The business of plaintiff-side law. Intake practices, referral economics, lead generation, legal marketing, AI in legal practice, firm consolidation, and the regulatory environment around all of it.
Regulation that moves litigation. Federal and state agency action — EPA, FDA, FCC, state attorneys general, state bars — analyzed for what it means in court, not what the press release said.
What we don't do
We don't run case reviews, intake forms, or consumer-facing solicitations. We don't publish "do you qualify" content. We don't accept paid placements that look like articles, and we don't run native advertising.
We don't republish press releases, court filings, or firm announcements as if they were original analysis. If something we publish draws from a press release or filing, the source is identified and the analysis is the contributor's own.
Contributors
Lawsuit Intelligencer publishes bylined commentary from attorneys, physicians, litigation experts, legal marketers, intake professionals, academics, and journalists covering the legal industry. Contributors are credited with their name, firm or affiliation, and a link to their professional page or work. We do not accept anonymous submissions.
If you'd like to write for us, see the contributor page for what we publish, what we don't, disclosure requirements, and how to pitch.
How we work with sources
Bylined contributors take responsibility for their own reporting. When sources need to be quoted on background or anonymously inside a piece written by an attributed author, we work with the contributor on what level of attribution is appropriate. We do not run pieces in which the author is a pseudonym for an undisclosed party.
Corrections
If you find a factual error in a piece, email editor@lawsuitintelligencer.com. Substantive corrections are made promptly, marked at the foot of the piece, and dated. Typographical fixes are made silently. Editorial standards, including our correction policy, are documented on the editorial standards page.
Not legal advice
Nothing on this site is legal advice. Reading Lawsuit Intelligencer does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and the editor or any contributor. Contributors writing about subjects in which they have a financial interest disclose that interest, but that disclosure is not a substitute for retained counsel. If you have a legal matter, talk to a lawyer.
Contact
Editorial inquiries, pitches, and corrections: editor@lawsuitintelligencer.com.