No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is findlaw.com legit or a scam?
FindLaw is a highly established legal resource and directory with over 28 years of history and no evidence of malicious activity.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
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Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
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Intelligence
The domain has been registered since 1995 and is currently owned by a reputable parent company, Internet Brands. Our antivirus network and major browser blocklists show no security threats or phishing activity. While some business-to-business reviews from law firms mention dissatisfaction with marketing contracts, there is no evidence of consumer-facing fraud. The site maintains a high global traffic rank and uses valid, high-grade encryption. Its longevity and corporate backing confirm it is a legitimate operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for findlaw.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain findlaw.com registered December 13, 1995; expires 2027-12-12; registrant MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands (US).
- Trustpilot: 3.0/5 average from ~50 reviews; mixed feedback on service for law firms.
- Acquired by Internet Brands (MH Sub I, LLC) from Thomson Reuters in December 2024.
- Criticisms from law firm marketing reviews include long contracts, difficulty canceling, and past link-spam practices.
- Site provides free legal information, lawyer directory, and resources; claims #1 most visited legal info site.
- No widespread reports of consumer scams or fraud on the domain itself; complaints center on B2B marketing services.
- No typosquat or clone indicators found; legitimate long-established legal resource site.
- bestcompany.comopen
"Complete and total scam . Do not hire these folks. They promise one thing verbally and in writing and did not provide those services."
- Reddit (r/LawFirm)open
"FINDLAW WILL LOSE YOU BUSINESS , AND YOU GET TO PAY FOR THE LOSS ... I actually called and told them it was fake, and got my $1 sent direct deposit ..."
- majux.comopen
"FindLaw Deals in Shady Backlinking Practices... This alone qualifies as paid Link Spam, per Google’s guidelines."
- Trustpilotopen
"FindLaw.com contains a wealth of free, up-to-date, and easily understandable legal information and tools to enable everyone to better understand the law."
Owned by MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands (El Segundo, CA); previously Thomson Reuters until Dec 2024 sale. Domain registered 1995-12-13 via MarkMonitor.
Domain Timeline
- Dec 13, 1995Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 31 years old today.
- Jul 6, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
findlaw.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedDomain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://findlaw.com/
- 2403https://findlaw.com/
Server Reputation
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on findlaw.com and not a lookalike like f-indlaw.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Final Verdict
FindLaw is a long-standing, legitimate legal information portal and directory owned by a major media company. It is a trusted resource for legal research and finding attorneys.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on findlaw.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- findlaw.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. findlaw.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 33 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- findlaw.com is 30.6 years old, registered on 12/13/1995 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report findlaw.com as clean.
- No. findlaw.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- findlaw.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. findlaw.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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