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WebsiteBroker, Inc. is dedicated to promoting greater access to justice and better understanding of the law. These Terms & Conditions (as defined below) apply to both LawGuru.com and LawSimple.com (both websites owned and operated by WebsiteBroker, Inc. collectively referred to as the .LawGuru Sites.). By using the LawGuru Sites and any of our features or services (including LawGuru.com Answers, the LawGuru.com Attorney Directory, LawSimple.com Answers or LawSimple.com Attorney Directory) you agree to all our terms and conditions that you will find below ("Terms & Conditions"). These Terms & Conditions are our rules for using these websites. If you do not agree to any of these Terms & Conditions, you may not use this service.
Attorneys/Lawyers may participate in the LawGuru Sites by joining LawGuru.com's Attorney Network ("Attorney Members" also referred to as "Lawyer Members" in certain jurisdictions). By being part of the network, Attorney Members will have the opportunity to provide answers to questions submitted by Users of LawGuru.com and LawSimple.com. Attorney Members who practice in the jurisdiction and area of law to which the question relates will be able to provide answers to both "Free Questions" and "Paid Questions" submitted by Users of LawGuru.com and LawSimple.com. As an Attorney Member you will have no right, however, to be presented the opportunity to answer any particular question, nor will you have any right to the continued use or existence of any features or services offered by WebsiteBroker, Inc.
Users may submit questions, without paying any fee of any kind ("Free Questions") and may have those Free Questions answered by Attorney Members. Free Questions may be delayed for a period of time before being posted on the LawGuru.com Answer system. The Free Questions and the general answers provided by Attorney Members will be posted publicly on LawGuru.com.
Alternatively, Users who want a faster, private answer from an Attorney Member have the option of submitting a Paid Question through either LawSimple.com and LawGuru.com. Users who submit a Paid Question pay two separate and distinct fees: A fee to WebsiteBroker, Inc. for the use of the service (a "Venue Fee"), and a fee to the Attorney Member who provides an accepted answer to the Paid Question (an "Attorney Fee" also referred to as a .Lawyer Fee. in certain jurisdictions). No part of the Venue Fee paid to WebsiteBroker, Inc. will be shared with you as an Attorney Member; no part of the Attorney Fee paid to you as an Attorney Member will be shared with WebsiteBroker, Inc.
Users who submit a Paid Question will also obtain the benefit of entering into a Limited Attorney-Client Representation Agreement with the responding Attorney Member. In the event that you submit an answer to a Paid Question and the User accepts the answer that you provide, the User and you will then have entered into a Limited Attorney-Client Representation Agreement (or in some jurisdiction the Limited Advice Agreement) that will govern the terms and duration of the limited-scope attorney-client engagement undertaken.
LawGuru.com Answers and LawSimple.com Answers are interactive computer services provided by WebSiteBroker, Inc. LawGuru.com Answers, LawSimple.com Answers, the Attorney Network (also referred to as the Lawyer Network in some jurisdictions), LawGuru.com Attorney Directory, LawSimple.com Attorney Directory and the LawGuru.com Answers public database (formerly known as the Knowledgebase) are all services provided by WebsiteBroker, Inc. For simplicity, when we refer in these Terms & Conditions to LawGuru, that term also refers to and includes WebsiteBroker, Inc., and its owners, managers, partners and employees.
By participating in our Attorney Network, including using the LawGuru.com or LawSimple.com sites and any of our features or services whether by answering Free Questions or Paid Questions or otherwise, you agree to all of these Terms & Conditions. In addition, you understand that the specific method, features and services offered on the LawGuru Sites may be altered, improved, removed or adapted at any time by LawGuru, in its sole discretion and without any notice. If you do not agree with any of these Terms & Conditions, you should not use this site.
The general use of the LawGuru Sites by Users is governed by the User Terms & Conditions, disclaimers listed on LawGuru.com, LawSimple.com and our Privacy Policy. Your participation in the Attorney Network and your use of the LawGuru Sites is governed by these Attorney/Lawyer Terms & Conditions and it is also governed, to the extent applicable, by the User Terms & Conditions. By visiting, participating in, or using the LawGuru Sites, you agree to be bound by all of these applicable Terms & Conditions.
By participating in the Attorney Network, you understand and agree that your answers to Free Questions submitted by our Users will become part of the LawGuru.com Answers public database and shall become the sole property of LawGuru. You agree that, without any compensation to you (other than allowing you to participate in the Attorney Network), LawGuru will own all rights to these submitted answers (including any intellectual property and moral rights) and will have the sole unrestricted right to use, reproduce, edit, modify, sell, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display the submitted content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in the content.
By participating in the Attorney Network, you understand and agree that your answers to Free Questions submitted by our Users will become part of the LawGuru.com Answers public database and shall become the sole property of LawGuru. You agree that, without any compensation to you (other than allowing you to participate in the Attorney Network), LawGuru will own all rights to these submitted answers (including any intellectual property and moral rights) and will have the sole unrestricted right to use, reproduce, edit, modify, sell, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display the submitted content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in the content.
Further, you agree that, in all your conduct in connection with your participation in LawGuru.com Answers, LawSimple.com Answers, LawGuru.com Attorney Directory, LawSimple.com Attorney Directory, the Attorney Network, and the LawGuru Answers public database, you will comply in all respects with all applicable rules, regulations, and other law that governs the conduct of attorneys/lawyers in all jurisdictions in which you are licensed to practice law (including any requirements regarding maintaining appropriate insurance coverage or similar mandates).
By applying for or participating in the LawGuru Sites, you are representing to LawGuru that you are an attorney/lawyer in good standing and are licensed to practice law in the jurisdictions indicated in your application. Further, your continued participation represents a continuing representation to LawGuru that you are an attorney/lawyer in good standing (or equivalent designation in your jurisdiction) and are licensed to practice law in the jurisdictions indicated. Providing false, misleading or incomplete information will result in your being barred from any further use of the LawGuru Sites.
You agree that you will not post replies to Free Questions in the LawGuru Answers public database solely containing a solicitation for representation without providing a meaningful answer to a question. Further, you agree that, in the course of providing answers to Free Questions and Paid Questions, you will comply in all respects with all applicable rules, regulations, and other law that governs the conduct of attorneys/lawyers in the appropriate jurisdictions, including the law concerning communications with clients, prospective clients, or members of the public. You should only reply to questions arising out of the jurisdictions in which you are licensed to practice, and for U.S. attorneys, unless it is a federal question.
You further agree that you will not use the LawGuru.com Answers, LawSimple.com Answers or any other part of the LawGuru Sites to post any advertisement or other commercial message. You agree that you will not post any knowingly false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, harassing, obscene, sexually-oriented, threatening messages, or any other material that is illegally invasive of another person's privacy. LawGuru will attempt to delete any inappropriate posts as quickly as possible after any such post is brought to its attention; however, the submissions are generally posted in real-time and are typically not reviewed by LawGuru or its editorial staff before they are posted to the site. As an Attorney Member of LawGuru, if you see inappropriate content on the LawGuru Sites, we would appreciate your bringing any such inappropriate posting to our attention.
A. Fees. For each Paid Question submitted, a User will be charged two separate and distinct fees: One fee, the Venue Fee, is paid to LawGuru. for the services it provides to the User; the second fee is the Attorney Fee paid by the User to the Attorney Member who provides an accepted answer to the Paid Question.
The Venue Fee is intended in part to cover LawGuru's costs in processing questions, and maintaining, administering, marketing, and operating the website. Payment of the Venue Fee to LawGuru will entitle a User to have their question distributed immediately to Attorney Members who practice in the jurisdiction and area of law pertinent to the Paid Question and who are willing to enter into a Limited Attorney-Client Representation Agreement (or Limited Advice Agreement, if applicable) with Users of the LawGuru Sites. Free Questions, unlike Paid Questions, may take up to 5 days to be distributed to Attorney Members and will not involve the creation of any attorney-client or lawyer-client relationship.
The User will see two charges on their credit card or PayPal account for the Venue Fee and the Attorney Fee. These two fees are separate, distinct, and unrelated. LawGuru clearly communicates to Users that no portion of any Venue Fee will be shared by LawGuru with any Attorney Member and that no portion of any Attorney Fee will be shared with LawGuru.
B. Process. As detailed above, when the User submits a Paid Question on either LawGuru.com or LawSimple.com, it is then distributed to all participating Attorney Members who practice in the jurisdiction and area of law pertinent to the question (for some U.K. categories, the Paid Questions may be first distributed to specific Lawyer Members who have the option to retain the Paid Question before it is distributed to all applicable Lawyer Members). The Paid Question will be accompanied by information about the User needed by the Attorney Member to determine whether any conflict of interest exists. You agree that you are solely responsible for determining and interpreting the rules/laws or your state, province, territory, nation or jurisdiction with regard to determining whether a conflict exists and for performing any conflict check.
For U.S. Attorneys:
As part of agreeing to answer a Paid Question for a User, you will enter into a Limited Attorney-Client Representation Agreement (the "Representation Agreement") with the User before being allowed by the system to submit the answer to the Paid Question. A link to a general form Representation Agreement is set out below.
This Representation Agreement establishes an attorney-client relationship between you and the User that is limited both in scope and duration. The scope of the attorney-client relationship under the Representation Agreement extends only to answering the particular Paid Question submitted, relieving you of any duty to further investigate, follow-up, take any other action, or represent the User in any further way. The duration of the attorney-client relationship under the Representation Agreement is also limited, and the representation ends as soon as the User accepts the answer you have provided. You may not alter or modify the Representation Agreement, nor may you disclaim the attorney-client relationship established by the Representation Agreement. As a result of such actions, the user's Attorney Fee will be refunded and you will not receive credit for your reply. If you do want to enter into a representation of the user as described in these Attorney/Lawyer Terms & Conditions, do not submit answers to Paid Questions.
For Lawyers in England & Wales:
As part of agreeing to answer a Paid Question for a User, you will enter into a Limited Advice Agreement (the "Advice Agreement") with the User before being allowed by the system to submit the answer to the Paid Question. A link to a general form Advice Agreement is set out below.
This Advice Agreement establishes a lawyer-client relationship between you and the User which is limited in both scope and duration. The scope of the services under the Advice Agreement extends only to answering the particular Paid Question submitted, relieving you of any duty to further investigate, follow-up, take any other action, advise or represent the User in any further way. The duration of the relationship under the Advice Agreement is also limited, and the representation ends as soon as the User accepts the answer you have provided. You may not alter or modify the Advice Agreement, nor may you disclaim the lawyer-client relationship established by the Advice Agreement. As a result of such actions, the User's Lawyer Fee will be refunded and you will not receive credit for your reply. If you do want to enter into a representation of the user as described in these Attorney/Lawyer Terms & Conditions, do not submit answers to Paid Questions.
For All Jurisdictions:
There are, of course, some legal questions that are too complicated for an attorney/lawyer to answer appropriately and completely through a limited-scope representation of the type provided by LawGuru.com or LawSimple.com for Paid Questions. If, in your sole discretion, you determine that a Paid Question submitted simply cannot be answered in the context of a limited-scope representation, then you should not submit an answer to that Paid Question. Of course, if this happens, you will not be paid an Attorney Fee for any work on the Paid Question.
After an Attorney Member provides an answer to a Paid Question, the User will have an opportunity to review the answer and decide whether to "accept" or "reject" it. If the User decides to accept the answer, as part of doing so, the User will confirm their agreement to the Representation Agreement (or Advice Agreement, as applicable). As the form Representation Agreement and Advice Agreement reflect, in the event that the User rejects the answer you provide, then no attorney-client or lawyer-client representation will be established between you and the User. If within 96 hours of receiving the answer the User does not review it, or reviews it and fails to either "accept" or "reject" the answer, the system will automatically "accept" the answer on his/her behalf ("auto-accept"); provided, however, that this auto-accept function will not trigger if the Attorney Member has not responded to a message from the User requesting clarification of the answer. Once the answer is accepted by the User or auto-accepted by the system, the User will be charged, and your account with LawGuru will be credited by LawGuru with the Attorney Fee.
If a User is dissatisfied with your answer to their Paid Question for any reason and "rejects" the answer or the terms of the Representation Agreement (or Advice Agreement, as applicable), the Attorney Fee will not be charged to the User. Thus, if the User rejects or otherwise declines to accept the answer, the User will not have entered into any attorney-client or lawyer-client relationship with you and your account with LawGuru will not be credited any amount for that answer. If, for any reason, LawGuru is required to refund to the User an Attorney Fee that has already been credited to your account with LawGuru, the amount of such refund will be deducted from your LawGuru account.
With respect to the time that passes between the User being charged the amount reflecting the Attorney Fee to be paid to an Attorney Member who provides an accepted answer to their Paid Question and the time that your account with LawGuru is credited in the amount of such an Attorney Fee, you expressly agree and authorize LawGuru to hold those funds received from the User until the User accepts the answer (or it is .auto-accepted. as the term is defined in the User Terms and Conditions) and agrees to the Representation Agreement (or Advice Agreement, as applicable). You also expressly agree that you will not have earned any such Attorney Fee paid by the User until the answer you provide to the User's Paid Question is paid by the User.
C. Confidentiality. With respect to Paid Questions, LawGuru agrees to respect and protect the confidentiality of any confidential client information or attorney-client or lawyer-client privileged Information contained in the Paid Question and the answer you provide. You understand that if LawGuru has reason to believe that noncompliance of its Terms and Conditions has occurred, its administrators may review the communications between a User and the Attorney-Member to confirm whether such parties are in compliance. Other than as indicated above, we will not disclose this information to third parties without the User's permission except to respond to a legal process or comply with the law. Of course, because there is no attorney-client or lawyer-client representation established in connection with Free Questions, Free Questions and answers to them are neither confidential nor privileged. Furthermore, for Lawyers who provide answers to users in England and Wales, the information such users provide is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998. You agree to abide by the requirements of such legislations and treat the data accordingly.
D. Payment. Within approximately 30 days following the end of each month, LawGuru will send you a check for your earnings in the prior month or otherwise disburse any Attorney Fees due to you. You expressly agree that, if the amount payable to you for any month is less than fifty U.S. dollars ($50.00), LawGuru may hold those funds on your behalf until such time as your earnings equal at least fifty U.S. dollars ($50.00), at which time those earnings will be disbursed to you by check or otherwise. LawGuru reserves the right to remit payments to Attorney Members electronically or via a service like PayPal. All payments will be made in U.S. dollars. You understand and agree that LawGuru does not make and has not made any warranties or representation to you as to the amount of any potential revenue or income stemming from your participation in LawGuru or the Attorney Network.
No fee will be charged to the User in connection with submission of a Free Question, and you will not be paid for any answers to any Free Questions submitted to LawGuru.
You agree that your use of the LawGuru Sites will be limited only to the uses that are contemplated by these Attorney/Lawyer Terms & Conditions and that you will not use the LawGuru Sites for the purpose of seeking to develop a business to compete with LawGuru. Further, you agree to comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of this site, and agree that the LawGuru Sites and their content may not be used, copied, distributed, republished, altered, uploaded, posted, or transmitted in any way, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of LawGuru, except that you may retain copies of any answers you provide to a User either for Free Questions or Paid Questions and the questions answered.
You are solely and fully liable for all answers provided using your account, as well as any other conduct on the site originating from your account. In addition to any other remedies, LawGuru, in its sole discretion, may suspend or terminate your account if we determine, in our sole judgment, that you have violated any of our Terms & Conditions, engaged in dishonest or fraudulent behavior or acts, are not providing answers of the quality required on the LawGuru Sites, or otherwise engage in conduct inconsistent with any applicable Terms & Conditions. If your account is terminated or suspended, you may not open a new account under any other name.
By participating in LawGuru.com, LawSimple.com and by joining the Attorney Network, you represent and warrant that you will not: (i) register or operate under a misleading username or under an inaccurate firm or practice name; or (ii) misrepresent your license status, education, background, areas of expertise, organizational affiliations, or experience. If a change in such information or your status should occur, you agree to promptly update the information in your account so that it will continue to be accurate and complete.
LawGuru does its best to protect its Users' privacy with respect to information not otherwise disclosed by Users in the questions they submit to the LawGuru Sites.
In connection with the submission of Free Questions and Paid Questions, we only require, and we encourage Users to only provide, the minimum amount of personal identifying information necessary to process a question. All of a User's personal information provided to the LawGuru Sites, including email addresses, is concealed from all other Users of the LawGuru Sites and is never published as part of the LawGuru.com Answers public database. Only the LawGuru administrators have access, for purposes of site administration only, to this information. LawGuru will not disclose this information to third parties without the User's permission, except in the following circumstances: (i) to protect LawGuru from liability, or (ii) to respond to legal process or to otherwise comply with the law.
Otherwise, the way in which LawGuru discloses information submitted by Users to the LawGuru Sites varies somewhat for Free Questions and Paid Questions:
Free Questions & Answers. After a Free Question is answered, the Free Question and its answer are automatically posted to the LawGuru Answers public database. These Free Questions and their Answers are visible to all Users of LawGuru and to Attorney Members.
Paid Questions & Answers. Unlike a Free Question, when a Paid Question is answered, the contents of the Paid Question and Answer are kept private and are not visible to all Users of LawGuru.com, LawSimple.com or to other Attorney Members.
Because Users submitting Paid Questions will be entering into a limited-scope attorney-client/lawyer-client representation with an Attorney Member, before you as an Attorney Member can enter into this relationship, you obviously must first determine that there are no conflicts of interest that would prevent from you from agreeing to represent a particular User. In order to accomplish this, LawGuru, with the User's express consent, will supply you with the full name and in most cases the zip code (or postal code) of the User who has submitted the Paid Question. LawGuru administrators will have access to this information because of the nature of the site and for the purpose of getting the User's question answered. Users who post a Paid Question have given permission to LawGuru to have access to this information so that it may be transmitted to you, and LawGuru has agreed to respect and protect the confidentiality of any confidential client information or attorney-client/lawyer-client privileged information contained in the Paid Question and in the answer you provide. In addition, you understand that if LawGuru has reason to believe that noncompliance of its Terms and Conditions has occurred, its administrators may review the communications between a User and the Attorney-Member to confirm whether such parties are in compliance as discussed in more detail in Section 5 (C) above. Other than as indicated above, we will not disclose this information to third parties without the User's permission except to respond to a legal process or comply with the law.
Should you wish to discontinue your participation in the Attorney Network, you agree to follow the simple steps to go inactive or delete your profile provided at www.lawguru.com/cgi/bbs/helpattorneys.html (deleting your profile will also remove your profile from the LawGuru.com Attorney Directory and the LawSimple.com Attorney Directory). You agree not ask us to remove your profile or delete your membership, as we have provided you with tools to do so.
LawGuru reserves the right to discontinue this service or any Attorney Member's participation in this service at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. In the event that LawGuru discontinues this service or discontinues your participation in this service as an Attorney Member, whether by termination or suspension of your account or otherwise, LawGuru will send you a check within approximately thirty (30) days of such discontinuance for any accumulated credit in your account at the time of discontinuance.
You agree that your participation on LawGuru.com, LawSimple.com or in the Attorney Network in no way constitutes an endorsement, recommendation, or referral by LawGuru or its users. You acknowledge that you have not been required to provide, and have not provided any, compensation of any kind to LawGuru in exchange for being permitted to be an Attorney Member of LawGuru or to participate in the Attorney Network. No employee, partner or other business relationship is created with LawGuru by your use of its services or participation in the Attorney Network.
You agree that you are solely responsible for any answer you provide to any Free Question or Paid Question and for anything you post on the LawGuru Answers public database and that you agree to indemnify and hold LawGuru harmless from and against any claim, loss, damage, expense or liability (including attorney's/lawyer.s fees and costs) that may result, in whole or in part, from your answers, posts, or other submissions to the LawGuru.com Answers, the LawSimple.com Answers, your use of the LawGuru Sites, or any communication to or action concerning in any way any User or LawGuru.
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