Effective date: August 9, 2026
These Terms and Conditions govern your use of lawyers.lyricalguy.com, an independent educational website publishing plain-English guides to VA claims, decision reviews, appeals, and accredited representation for veterans and families affected by mesothelioma and asbestos exposure. By reading, linking to, or otherwise using this site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the site.
Purpose of this site — education only
Everything published here exists to help you understand a complicated system before you deal with it. Nothing on this site is legal, medical, financial, tax, or benefits advice. We are not a law firm, we are not attorneys, we are not VA-accredited representatives, and we are not clinicians. We do not review claims, do not evaluate cases, and do not represent anyone. Full detail is on our Disclaimer page, which forms part of these terms.
No professional relationship is formed
Reading our articles, emailing support@lawyers.lyricalguy.com, or receiving a reply from us creates no attorney-client relationship, no physician-patient relationship, and no advisor or fiduciary relationship of any kind. Do not send us confidential or privileged material; anything you email us is not protected by any professional privilege. For advice about your own claim, speak with a VA-accredited attorney, an accredited claims agent, or a Veterans Service Officer.
Accuracy and no warranty
We work hard to be accurate, cite official sources, and update our guides. But VA regulations, appeal procedures, filing deadlines, and compensation rates change — sometimes annually, sometimes mid-year — and an article that was correct when published may be out of date when you read it. The site and all of its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. Always confirm rates, forms, and deadlines against VA.gov and the current Title 38 regulations before you act.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators, authors, and contributors of this site are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, this site or anything you read on it — including any decision made or not made about a claim, appeal, deadline, treatment, or representation. You use the information here at your own discretion and risk.
Intellectual property
The articles, guides, page layouts, and original graphics on this site are our copyrighted work, except where material is quoted from public-domain government sources. You may read, print, and share individual pages for your own personal, non-commercial use, and you may quote short excerpts with clear attribution and a link back to the original page.
You may not republish our articles in whole or in substantial part, scrape or bulk-copy the site, feed it into a commercial product, or use our content in marketing for a law firm or claims service, without our written permission. If you believe material here infringes your copyright, follow the process on our DMCA Policy page.
Third-party links
Our guides link to external resources — VA.gov, benefits.va.gov, the eCFR, cancer.gov, cdc.gov, ssa.gov, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and reputable medical organizations. We provide those links because official sources should always outrank us. We do not control external sites, are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, or privacy practices, and a link is not an endorsement. If you find a broken or misdirected link, tell us.
Advertising
This site displays third-party advertising served by Google AdSense. Ads are labeled by the ad network and are separate from our editorial content, and advertisers have no influence over what we publish. We accept no payment from law firms or claims-services companies and sell no leads. See our Advertising Disclosure and Privacy Policy for details, including how to opt out of personalized advertising.
Acceptable use
You agree not to use this site to break the law, to infringe anyone’s rights, or to harm the site or its readers. Specifically, you agree not to:
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to the site, its servers, or related systems;
- interfere with the site’s operation, including through automated scraping, denial-of-service activity, or malware;
- impersonate our authors or misrepresent this site as a law firm, a government service, or an accredited representative;
- use content from this site to solicit clients, generate leads, or market claims services.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the site’s operators, authors, and contributors from any claim, loss, or expense arising out of your misuse of the site or your breach of these terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in full effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the site develops or as legal requirements change. The effective date at the top will change when we do, and continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised terms.
Contact
Questions about these terms go to support@lawyers.lyricalguy.com. Please note that we cannot answer questions about your individual claim, appeal, or medical situation — see our Contact Us page for what we can and cannot help with.