Privacy Policy

1. Scope of This Privacy Policy

This policy applies to information collected through:

• this website and the pages you view on it;
• contact and consultation request forms;
• telephone communications initiated through numbers published on this site, where applicable;
• text message communications, where applicable;
• email sent to addresses published on or reached through this site;
• chat or messaging functions, if and when they are offered;
• interactive tools such as the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Calculator;
• website hosting logs and any analytics technologies in use; and
• other website-related communications.

Information exchanged offline within an established attorney-client relationship is subject to additional legal, ethical and professional obligations that exist independently of this website Privacy Policy. Where those obligations are more protective, they control.

2. Important: Sensitive Case Information

Please use care when deciding what to send through a website form, email or text message. You can almost always give us enough information to start a conversation without sending every detail or document in your case.

Unless we specifically request it through an appropriate channel, please do not send:

• Social Security numbers or other government identification numbers;
• full financial-account or credit-card numbers;
• passwords or authentication credentials;
• medical or psychiatric records;
• images, recordings or other explicit evidentiary material;
• large sets of confidential documents or discovery; or
• other highly sensitive materials.

A brief summary of your situation — what agency is involved, what stage the matter is in and what you need help with — is normally enough for an initial contact.

3. Communications Do Not Automatically Create an Attorney-Client Relationship

Submitting information through this website does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. Sending a contact form, email, text message, chat message or voicemail, or entering information into a calculator, does not mean the firm has agreed to represent you. Representation begins only after the firm has agreed to undertake the matter and any required engagement process, including a conflicts review and a written engagement agreement, has been completed.

For that reason, you should not assume that information you send before an attorney-client relationship exists will be treated as privileged in the same way as communications made within an established attorney-client relationship. The protections that apply to unsolicited or preliminary communications can depend on the circumstances and on the law of the relevant jurisdiction.

This is a caution about what you choose to send, not a statement that we are free to use your information however we wish. The firm endeavors to handle information from prospective clients appropriately, to limit internal access to it and to treat it consistently with applicable professional-responsibility obligations. See the Legal Disclaimer for related information.

4. Information We May Collect

A. Information you provide

• name;
• email address;
• telephone number;
• state, city or federal district;
• preferred contact method;
• the category of matter you select on a consultation form;
• your description of the legal matter;
• investigation, court or jurisdiction information you choose to provide;
• documents you voluntarily submit; and
• the content of calls, emails, text messages and chat messages you send.

B. Case-related information

Because this is a criminal defense website, the information people choose to send often concerns alleged or suspected criminal conduct, investigations, charges, prior convictions or sentencing history. That information can be sensitive. We collect it only because you choose to send it, and we ask that you send no more than is needed for an initial evaluation.

C. Device and internet information

Web hosting and content-delivery systems ordinarily process technical information when a page is requested, which may include IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring URL, pages viewed, time of the request, approximate region derived from IP address and basic interaction information.

D. Cookies and similar technologies

See Section 9. This website uses essential hosting technologies as well as analytics and attribution cookies (such as Google Analytics and CallRail) to understand aggregate site traffic and how prospective inquiries reach the firm; it does not deploy cross-site behavioral remarketing pixels.

E. Analytics and attribution information

See Section 10 for a description of the analytics and lead-attribution tools in use on this site today.

5. Sensitive Personal Information

Some of what a visitor may choose to submit could be treated as sensitive personal information under applicable privacy laws. Depending on what you send, that may include:

• precise location information;
• government identifiers;
• financial information;
• the contents of communications;
• health-related information;
• racial, ethnic, religious or sexual-orientation information, where you voluntarily disclose it;
• information concerning alleged criminal activity, charges or convictions; and
• other highly personal facts about you, your family or your employment.

We do not require this information in order to respond to an inquiry. Please avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information through general website forms.

6. How Information May Be Used

• responding to inquiries and messages;
• evaluating whether the firm may be able to assist with a matter;
• scheduling and conducting a consultation;
• performing conflicts checks where appropriate;
• providing information you request;
• operating, maintaining and improving the website;
• security, abuse prevention and fraud prevention;
• measuring website performance and understanding how pages are used;
• maintaining business and professional records;
• complying with legal and professional obligations;
• protecting legally recognized rights and safety; and
• operating interactive tools such as the sentencing calculator.

7. How Information May Be Disclosed

We do not sell information submitted through this website. Information may, however, be disclosed to categories of recipients that support the firm’s operations or where disclosure is legally required:

• website hosting and content-delivery providers;
• website developers and IT or security providers;
• email and communications providers;
• analytics and attribution providers (such as Google Analytics and CallRail);
• telephone service or call-handling providers, where applicable;
• intake, calendaring or practice-management platforms, where used;
• professional advisers bound by duties of confidentiality;
• legal authorities, where disclosure is required by applicable law or valid legal process, subject to the limits described in Section 24; and
• a successor entity in connection with a business transaction, subject to Section 25.

8. Service Providers and Processors

Service providers may process information on the firm’s behalf to operate website hosting, communications, analytics, intake, security and related services. Those providers are engaged to process information for the firm’s purposes and not for their own independent marketing. Engaging a vendor does not mean the vendor provides legal services or is part of your legal team.

9. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies and similar technologies generally fall into several categories:

• Essential or functional — needed to deliver pages, balance load, maintain security and remember basic preferences.
• Analytics and attribution — used to measure page views, site performance and the referring source or landing page associated with an inquiry.
• Advertising or conversion measurement — used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns when campaign parameters are present.
• Preference technologies — used to remember settings you choose.

This website uses Google Analytics (GA4) and CallRail cookies and browser storage to measure aggregate traffic and record first-touch attribution metadata (such as referring source, landing page URL and campaign parameters) when a visitor submits a consultation request. It does not deploy third-party behavioral advertising or cross-site remarketing pixels.

Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking cookies can affect how some websites function.

10. Analytics and Attribution Technologies

This website uses Google Analytics and CallRail to receive technical and interaction data such as page URLs, referring pages, campaign parameters, device information and IP address. We also store first-touch session metadata in browser storage so that when you submit a consultation form, our intake team can see which page and traffic source led to your inquiry.

As a matter of policy, the narrative substance of what you write in a consultation form is used for legal intake and routing by the firm and is not used to build third-party behavioral advertising profiles about you.

11. Telephone Communications

Telephone numbers published on this website are routed through call-tracking and intake infrastructure (CallRail) that records call metadata — such as the calling number, date, time, duration and the marketing source associated with the call — for the purpose of intake routing and measuring website performance. If call recording is used on any intake line, callers are notified in accordance with applicable consent requirements.

12. Text Messages

If you provide a mobile number, we may use it to respond to your inquiry, including by text message where that is the method you have chosen or invited. Message and data rates may apply, and message frequency varies depending on the conversation. You may ask us to stop sending text messages at any time. This website does not send automated marketing text campaigns. Providing a phone number does not create an attorney-client relationship.

13. Email

Ordinary email is not a guaranteed secure channel. Messages can be delayed, misdirected, forwarded or accessed on a device or account that other people can reach. Please avoid sending highly sensitive material by ordinary email unless we have asked you to and have arranged an appropriate method. If you email us or give us an email address, we may respond by email.

14. Interactive Tools and Calculators

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Calculator is an educational tool. It runs in your browser using the values you select, and it does not ask for your name, email address, telephone number or case identity. You do not need to identify yourself to use it.

Calculator results are informational estimates of an advisory guideline range. They are not legal advice, not a prediction of any sentence and do not create an attorney-client relationship. See the Legal Disclaimer for the full explanation of what the calculator does and does not account for.

15. Data Security

We use administrative, technical and organizational safeguards that are reasonable in light of the nature of the information involved, and we aim to collect only the information we actually need, protect it appropriately and dispose of it securely.

No website, electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be one hundred percent secure. Please use judgment when transmitting sensitive information electronically, and follow the guidance in Section 2.

16. Data Retention

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to an inquiry, maintain conflict-check records, keep ordinary business records, protect security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and satisfy professional obligations. Retention periods differ depending on whether an inquiry becomes a represented matter; client files are subject to separate professional record-keeping obligations.

17. Children and Minors

This website is intended for people seeking information about federal criminal law and legal services, and it is not directed to young children. We do not seek to collect personal information from children through ordinary marketing functionality.

At the same time, minors and their parents may have legitimate reasons to seek criminal defense information. Where appropriate and permitted by law, a minor seeking legal assistance should generally involve a parent, guardian or other appropriate adult. If information about a minor is collected in connection with representation or prospective representation, additional legal and professional obligations may apply.

18. Third-Party Websites and Social Media

This site links to courts, government agencies, statutes and other outside resources. We do not control those websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices or content, and a link is not necessarily an endorsement. If you interact with the firm on a third-party social platform, that interaction is governed by the platform’s own terms and privacy policy.

19. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Browsers and extensions may send privacy signals such as Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. There is no uniform industry standard for responding to Do Not Track. Because this website does not currently use advertising or cross-context behavioral tracking technologies, there is no sale or sharing of personal information for such a signal to opt out of. If tracking technologies are added, applicable opt-out mechanisms, including recognition of opt-out preference signals where legally required, will be implemented and described here.

20. California Privacy Rights

To the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, applies to our processing of personal information, California residents may have the following rights:

• the right to know what personal information is collected, used and disclosed;
• the right to request deletion of personal information, subject to exceptions;
• the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information;
• the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, where applicable;
• the right to limit certain uses and disclosures of sensitive personal information, where applicable; and
• the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these rights.

Some of these rights are subject to exceptions, including where information must be retained for legal, professional-responsibility or record-keeping reasons. To submit a request, use the contact page and identify your message as a privacy request. We may need to verify your identity before responding, and an authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf where the law permits.

21. Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain other states may have rights under their own privacy laws, which can include rights to access, correct, delete or obtain a copy of personal information, and to opt out of targeted advertising where applicable. Where such a law applies to our processing, requests may be submitted through the contact page using the same process described above.

22. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not exchange personal information submitted through this website for money. Some privacy statutes also define “sharing” to include disclosing personal information to third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising. As this website is currently built, no advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising technologies are in use, so no such sharing occurs through the site. If that changes, this section and the Last Updated date will be revised and any required opt-out mechanism will be provided.

23. Law Enforcement and Legal Requests

Information may be disclosed where disclosure is required by applicable law, valid legal process or court order, or where disclosure is necessary to protect legally recognized rights or safety — always subject to the confidentiality, privilege and professional obligations that govern lawyers.

Nothing in this policy should be read as an invitation to law enforcement or as a statement that the firm voluntarily forwards prospective-client information to government agencies. Where a request implicates confidential or potentially privileged information, the firm evaluates the request against its ethical duties and applicable law, and asserts protections where they apply.

24. Business Transfers

If the practice is reorganized, merged, transferred or otherwise restructured, information may be transferred as part of that transaction to the extent permitted by law. Any such transfer remains subject to the professional and ethical obligations that govern client and prospective-client information; client files are not treated as ordinary marketing assets and are not sold.

25. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This policy may be updated as the website, technology or applicable law changes. The version posted on this page is the version currently in effect, and the Last Updated date at the top will be revised when material changes are made.

26. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy, or requests relating to information you have submitted, may be sent through the contact page. Please describe your request without including unnecessary sensitive details. Related pages: Legal Disclaimer and Terms of Use.