Terms & Conditions

1. Acceptance of the Terms & Conditions

1.1. By accessing and using this Site and any of its subdomains you agree to be bound by and to act in accordance with these Terms & Conditions available at https://www.lawyerquote.io. If you are not agreeing with these Terms & Conditions or if you are in breach of any term of these Terms & Conditions by default, please leave this Site immediately and don’t use services available through the Site.

2. Amendments

2.1. We reserve the right to update these Terms & Conditions from time to time without notice by posting amendments on this page. The amended Terms & Conditions will be effective from the date the Terms & Conditions are posted on this Site. Please, check on available updates whenever you visit this Site. Your continued use of this Site after issuing of amendments will constitute your acceptance of the amended Terms & Conditions.

3. Scope of Services.

3.1. Lawyer Quote provides an independent online service which connects visitors of the Site with legal professionals. Lawyer Quote will introduce you to other parties who provide these products or services. Nevrtheless, you are urged to make your own independent investigation and evaluation of any firm being considered. The determination of the need for legal services and the choice of legal representation are extremely important decisions and should not be based solely on advertisements, claims of expertise, or on the cost of rendering the requested legal services. Lawyer Quote does not guarantee that users will successfully find a legal representative through this Site. In order to provide an optimal connection for clients and legal professionals, we do not involve ourselves in the agreements between users and clients or the actual representation of clients. Therefore, we cannot ensure the completion of the agreement or the integrity of either party. The user, and not Lawyer Quote, is solely responsible for assessing the integrity, honesty, and trustworthiness of all persons with whom the user communicates through the service. Lawyer Quote service is provided free of charge.

3.2. Providing a service where potential clients and legal professionals can meet does not imply an endorsement of any subscribing attorney or service provider. Lawyer Quote makes no representation concerning an attorney's qualifications (except that the attorney was licensed to practice law in at least one state at the time of registration), nor does it sanction statements an attorney may post on the system. Lawyer Quote makes no representation concerning the qualifications of non-attorney legal service providers. Your case will not be viewed by non-attorney legal providers without your consent. Lawyer Quote does not screen potential cases, or otherwise channel potential clients to selected attorneys. Please be aware that nothing on this Site shall be treated as an endorsement by Lawyer Quote in respect to a product or service we refer to. The information is provided for general purposes only. We reserve the right to add, amend, delete, edit, remove or modify any information, content, material or data displayed on this Site and without notice from time to time.

3.3. Any form of use of the Site by potential client is not intended to and will not create an attorney-client relationship between any person or entity and Lawyer Quote. Any electronic communication sent to Lawyer Quote will not create an attorney-client relationship between the User and Lawyer Quote, such being expressly denied. Please be aware that while this Site provides information on a wide range of legal professionals or legal services, there may be other products or services available on the market which are not shown on this Site and which may be more appropriate or suitable for you than those shown here.

3.4. Lawyer Quote is not a law firm. Lawyer Quote offers no legal advice, recommendations, mediation, or counseling under any circumstance. Lawyer Quote encourages the user not to accept any information received from any source found on this service, unless it is from an attorney the user has retained.

For avoidance of doubts, information on this Site should not be relied upon, you should always check the suitability, adequacy and appropriateness of a legal professional or legal service that you are interested in. Please be advised, you are not obligated to use any of the services or products available through the Site and that it is your sole decision whether to obtain or refrain from obtaining any service form a particular lawyer.

3.5. Nothing on this Site is, or shall be considered as an offer by Lawyer Quote or any third party to create an attorney-client relationship between. Any electronic communication sent to or by Lawyer Quote will not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Lawyer Quote, such being expressly denied.

3.6. We provide links from this Site and emails sent to you as part of our service to the sites of third parties. These sites are owned and operated by third parties over whom we do not have control. Your access and use of these third parties’ sites at your sole risk and your sole discretion. You are solely responsible for any use of these third partis sites and for any decision to obtain or refrain from obtaining any of the products or services available on such third parties’ sites. Any links to third party sites are provided for your interest and convenience only. We do not endorse, recommend or accept responsibility for such third parties, their products or services, their sites or for any information, opinions or views given or advice provided by such third parties (whether on their sites or otherwise).

3.7. Lawyer Quote makes no representation, guarantee, or warranty (express or implied) as to the legal ability, competence, or quality of representation which may be provided by any of the attorneys, law firms or legal service providers which may submit bids and/or are listed through this Site. If you apply for obtain any legal service, you will be contracting with a third party who will be providing that service to you on their own terms and conditions. It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand and agree with those terms and conditions before entering into a contract to obtain that legal service. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in connection with any product or service you obtain after using this Site or for any acts, omissions, errors or defaults of any third party in connection with that product or service.

3.8. Your use of any third-party site will be governed by the terms and conditions of use and privacy policy applicable to that site. Such terms and conditions of use and privacy policy will be different from these Terms & Conditions and our Privacy Policy. It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand and agree with the terms and conditions of use and privacy policy of any third-party site before using that site. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in connection with the terms and conditions of use or the privacy policy applying to any third-party site or for any acts, omissions, errors or defaults of any third party in connection with those terms and conditions of use and/or privacy policy.

4. Permitted use

4.1. Access to and use of this Site other than for your personal, non-commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. You are only permitted to access and use this Site for your personal, non-commercial purposes, meaning this Site may only be accessed and used directly by a private individual to seek a product or service directly for that individual on their own behalf.

4.2. You may operate a link to this Site provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, as determined by us. You must not operate a link to this Site in such way that suggests or imply any form of association, approval or endorsement by Lawyer Quote. We reserve the right to request immediate removal of any link to this Site at any time and we may withdraw any linking permission at any time.

4.3. You are not permitted to use this Site in any fraudulent, unlawful, or commercial manner. Following actions (without limitations) are strictly prohibited:

• To create, check, confirm, update, modify or amend your own or another person's databases, records or directories.
• Using any automated software, process, program, robot, web crawler, spider, data mining, trawling or other 'screen scraping' software, process, program or system.
• To tamper with, modify, reverse engineer or amend any part of this Site.
• In a way that interferes with, disrupts or imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large burden on our communications and technical systems as determined by us.
• To harm, threaten, abuse, embarrass, defame, libel, intimidate or harass another person, or in a way that invades another person's privacy or is obscene, offensive, hateful, indecent, inappropriate, objectionable, unacceptable, discriminatory or damaging as determined by us.

5. Intellectual property rights

5.1. Any information, content, material or data displayed on this Site belongs to us or our licensors. All intellectual property rights including, without limitation, all copyright, design rights, patents, inventions, logos, business names, trading names, service marks and trademarks, internet domain names, moral rights, rights in databases, data, source codes, software, specifications, know how, processes and business methods (in all cases whether registered or unregistered and including all rights to apply for registration) in and relating to this Site (including information, content, material or data displayed on it) belong to us or our licensors and all such rights are reserved.

5.2. You may temporarily print, copy, download or store extracts of information, content, material or data displayed on this Site for your own personal (non-commercial) use, subject to the following conditions:

• You must not modify the paper or digital copies of such information, content, material or data.
• The status of us and our licensors as the authors of such information, content, material or data must be acknowledged. The copy must retain any copyright or other intellectual property notices contained in the original material. Images displayed on this Site are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced or appropriated in any manner without the prior written consent of their respective owner(s). No logos, trademarks, or service marks displayed on this Site may be printed or downloaded, except as part of the text of which they form part.
• It may not be sold or transferred to any third party.
• It may not be commercially published, exploited, distributed, extracted or reutilized without our prior written consent. It may not be excerpted, utilized, used, reproduced, published, reformatted and/or displayed on any other Site without our prior written consent.
• By using these services you agree to retain ownership of any content or material you submit, display, post, share, publish or otherwise make publicly available on or through this Site ("User Content"). You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, worldwide, royalty free and unlimited license to use, modify, keep, share, sell, save, copy, distribute, publish, display, excerpt, reproduce, utilize, extract, make available and transmit such User Content in any manner and for any purpose.

6. Limitation of liability

6.1. We do not check, monitor, review, verify and are not liable for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in connection with, any information, content, material or data collected from or provided by third parties which is displayed on or is otherwise available from this Site or any third party sites (the “Third party Content”). Such Third party Content may be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. It is solely your responsibility to check that such information or data is accurate, complete, correct and up to date. Lawyer Quote has no liability for any errors or omissions in the Third party Content, whether provided by Lawyer Quote or our licensors.

6.2. Lawyer Quote does not continuously review the standing of any attorney subscriber with any regulatory authority. When considering employing any attorney or law firm, user should check the attorney's standing with the state bar. When considering employing a non-attorney legal service service provider, users should check with the agency that certified the provider or the applicable regulatory body.

6.3. Lawyer Quote is not responsible for, and in no way endorses, any description or indication of specialization or limitation of practice by an attorney or law firm. Please be aware that no agency or board may have certified such attorney as a specialist or expert in any indicated field of law practice. In addition, an attorney claiming specialization is not necessarily any more expert or competent than other attorneys. It is up to the User to question the attorneys and providers on the factual basis of any statement they make, ask for the names of the certifying agencies, and verify all information.

6.4. Users are encouraged to use caution when reviewing any information submitted by attorneys and other parties. Although Lawyer Quote strongly encourages attorneys to comply with all regulations governing attorney conduct, it is impossible for Lawyer Quote to monitor members' integrity or compliance with applicable rules of conduct.

6.5. Lawyer Quote in no way endorses the content or legality of any responses, statements, or promises made by attorneys or any other parties, on or off this Site.

6.6. We do not give any warranty or guarantee that this Site, any third-party site or any information, content, material or data on this Site or any third-party site is free from viruses, spyware, malicious software, trojans, worms, logic bombs or anything else which may have a contaminating, harmful or destructive effect on any technology. You must ensure that you use appropriate virus checking software. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in this regard where caused by any third party.

6.7. Any views, opinions, advice, reviews, ratings or comments on this Site or any third-party sites which are made by third parties (including User Content as described above) do not represent our opinions, views or advice, are not checked, monitored, reviewed, verified or endorsed by us including in relation to their accuracy, truthfulness or completeness. We are hereby disclaiming all responsibility and liability for any loss or damage you may incur or suffer in connection with such User Content, advice, reviews, views, opinions, ratings or comments.

6.8. We shall not be responsible for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in connection with your use of this Site which is caused by any event beyond our reasonable control including the electronic transmission of information, content, material and data over the internet and the interception or decryption of it by others.

6.9. We shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages of any kind or nature you may suffer or incur in connection with your use of this Site (including any loss of savings you expect to make, loss of business or business opportunity, or loss of profit or revenue) or for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in connection with your use of this Site (even if such damages are foreseeable).

6.10. We are not responsible for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur in connection with any inability to access and use this Site for any reason.

7. Disclaimer of Warranties.

7.1. LAWYER QUOTE, FOR ITSELF AND ITS LICENSORS, MAKES NO EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR GUARANTEES IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE, THE SERVICES, ANY MATERIALS, SUBMISSIONS, USER CONTENT OR THIRD-PARTY CONTENT, RELATING TO THE QUALITY, SUITABILITY, TRUTH, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL CONTAINED OR PRESENTED ON THIS SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE MATERIALS, THE THIRD-PARTY CONTENT AND THE USER CONTENT OF THIS SITE. UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPLICITLY STATED, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THIS SITE, THE SERVICES, MATERIALS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SUBMISSIONS, AND ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL CONTAINED OR PRESENTED ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE” AND “WHERE-IS” BASIS WITH NO WARRANTY OF IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS. LAWYER QUOTE DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY WARRANTIES AGAINST VIRUSES, SPYWARE OR MALWARE THAT MAY BE INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER.

8. User responsibilities.

8.1. You are responsible to take all reasonable precautions (including using appropriate virus checking software) to ensure that any information (including User Content) is free from viruses, spyware, malicious software, trojans, and any other harmful or destructive technology. You must ensure that all information (including User Content) you provide on this Site is correct, complete, accurate and not misleading and that you disclose all relevant facts. It is your responsibility to identify and correct any mistakes or errors in the information, content, material or data held by the third party about you before you obtain any product or service. Failure to do so could invalidate the product or service provided by the third party. We shall not be liable for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur if any information, content, material or data you provide on this Site is not correct, complete and accurate or if it is misleading or if you fail to disclose all relevant facts.

8.2. You may complete a registration process as part of your use of this Site which may include the creation of a username, password and/or other identification information (“Identification Information”). You shall ensure that all Identification Information will be kept confidential by you and will not be disclosed to, or shared with. Where you do disclose to or share with anyone your Identification Information, you are solely responsible for all activities undertaken on this Site using your Identification Information.

8.3. You are solely responsible and liable for your conduct on this Site and for your User Content. You represent and warrant that:

8.4. You own your User Content or otherwise have the right to grant the license set out in this Terms & Conditions.

8.5. Your User Content does not violate or infringe any privacy rights, intellectual property rights, copyright, database rights, trade marks, or other third-party’s rights (including any right of confidentiality).

8.6. Your User Content does not violate or infringe any law.

8.7. Your User Content is true, complete, accurate and not misleading where it relates to facts, or is genuinely held where it relates to an opinion.

8.8. Your User Content is not harmful, fraudulent, threatening, defamatory, embarrassing, distressing, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, intimidating, harassing, libelous, stalking, profane, obscene, indecent, inappropriate, hateful, discriminatory or racially, ethnically, sexually or otherwise objectionable.

8.9. You agree that you will be liable to us for any damage, loss, claim, demand, liability or expense (including reaasonable legal fees) that we may suffer or incur arising out of or in connection with your conduct on this Site and/or your User Content.

9. Termination

9.1. We reserve the right to terminate these Terms & Conditions and/or the services or products offered by Lawyer Quote at any time without notice to you if, at our reasonable discretion, you breach any term or condition of these Terms & Conditions.

10. Effect of termination

10.1. After termination, you shall discontinue all use of the information available through Site and destroy the materials you have obtained from Lawyer Quote, including all related documentation and copies.

11. Privacy Policy

11.1. By using this Site, you agree to the Privacy Policy available at https://www.lawyerquote.io/privacy

12. Miscellaneous

12.1. This Site and our services can be reached from all fifty states and around the world. Each of these places has a different set of laws. If you choose to use this Site from locations outside the United States, you do so at your sole risk and you are responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws. Since Lawyer Quote cannot keep track of all these laws and their requirements, these Terms & Conditions and the relationship between the User and Lawyer Quote shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any dispute concerning the Site or these Terms & Conditions shall be subject to the venue of a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of California. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of our service or these Terms & Conditions must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

12.2. If any provision of these Terms & Conditions is held to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed deleted from these Terms & Conditions and the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms & Conditions shall not be affected.

12.3. These Terms & Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and us relating to your access to and use of this Site and supersede any prior agreements (including any previous Terms & Conditions of this Site).

12.4. No failure or delay by us in exercising any right under these Terms & Conditions will operate as a waiver of that right nor will any single or partial exercise by us of any right preclude any further exercise of any right.