Terms of Use

3.1 General information only

The Website contains general information and material that may be of interest. Information and material on the Website is general in nature and is not, and is not intended to be, legal, financial, or other professional advice.

3.2 No reliance

You should not rely on any information or material on the Website without first obtaining your own specific advice. Every legal matter is different, and the law changes over time. We do not accept responsibility for any loss suffered as a result of reliance by you on the accuracy or currency of any information or material on the Website.

3.3 Currency

We use reasonable efforts to keep the Website up to date, but the Website may not always reflect the most recent developments in the law or in the areas it covers.

4.1 No engagement

Use of the Website does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and us. An attorney-client relationship is established only when we have agreed in writing to act for you on a specific matter and you have entered into a written retainer agreement or other engagement document with us.

4.2 Inquiries are not engagements

Sending an inquiry through the Website (including through any contact form or email link) does not constitute instructions to us, does not create an attorney-client relationship, and does not by itself give rise to an obligation on us to act for you. We will tell you in writing whether we are willing and able to act, and on what terms.

4.3 Confidential information

Communications you send through the Website are not protected by attorney-client privilege until an attorney-client relationship has been formally established. Please do not send us sensitive or confidential information through the Website until we have confirmed in writing that we are willing and able to act for you and that we have no conflict of interest.

4.4 Jurisdictions

Information on the Website is intended primarily for residents of Texas and other jurisdictions in which we are admitted to practice. The fact that the Website is accessible from another jurisdiction does not mean that we are admitted to practice, or are willing to advise on the law of, that other jurisdiction.

5.1 Permitted use

We grant you permission to use the Website for personal, non-commercial use, provided that you comply with these Terms of Use and all applicable laws.

5.2 Eligibility

To use the Website, you must be at least 18 years of age, or have the consent of a parent or legal guardian. The Website is not intended for children under the age of 16.

5.3 Prohibited activities

You must not, and must not attempt to:

• (a) use the Website in a way that breaches any law or these Terms of Use;
• (b) upload, transmit, or distribute any material that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, threatening, harassing, or that infringes the rights of any third party;
• (c) introduce viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other malicious or technologically harmful material;
• (d) use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access the Website or to copy or extract content from the Website (including for the purpose of training or fine-tuning artificial intelligence or machine learning models) without our prior written consent;
• (e) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, the server on which it is stored, or any connected server, computer, or database; or
• (f) decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise interfere with the proper working of the Website.

6.1 Ownership

All intellectual property rights in the Website (including its design, text, graphics, logos, icons, sound recordings, video, and software) belong to or are licensed to us. The intellectual property rights in the Website are protected by United States and international laws.

6.2 Permitted use

You may share the information on the Website for the purpose of private use, research, or review as permitted under applicable copyright legislation. Where you do, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices.

6.3 Restrictions

Except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Use or by law, you must not copy, adapt, reproduce (other than for the purpose of viewing the Website in your browser), store, modify, distribute, print, upload, display, perform, publish, post, frame within another website, or create derivative works from any part of the Website, or commercialize any information obtained from the Website, without our prior written consent (or, in the case of third-party material, the consent of the relevant rights holder).

8.1 Internet is not secure

The internet is not a secure medium and communications to and from the Website may be intercepted or altered. Any information you transmit to the Website is transmitted at your own risk.

8.2 Your safeguards

You must take your own precautions to ensure that the means by which you access the Website does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious code, or other forms of interference that may damage your own computer system or device. We do not warrant that the Website is free from any such risk.

8.3 Notify us

If you become aware of any problem with the security of the Website, please contact us promptly using the contact details on this Website.

12.1 Exclusion of liability

Subject to your Non-excludable Rights, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any loss or damage (including indirect, special, or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, data, business, goodwill, or anticipated savings) arising in connection with these Terms of Use or your use of the Website.

12.2 Resupply remedy

Where a warranty is implied by applicable law into these Terms of Use and cannot be lawfully excluded, our liability for breach of that warranty is limited, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to the resupply of the relevant information, material, or services, or to payment of the cost of having that information, material, or service resupplied.

16.1 Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity does not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which remain in full force and effect.

16.2 Waiver

No waiver of any term of these Terms of Use is effective unless given in writing, and no waiver is to be deemed a further or continuing waiver of that term or any other term.

16.3 Assignment

You may not assign or novate these Terms of Use or any of your rights under them. We may assign or novate these Terms of Use without your consent.

16.4 Entire agreement

These Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy and any other legal notices we publish on the Website, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the Website.