Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of These Terms

By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the site. If you use the website on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to accept these Terms for that organization.

2. Purpose of This Website

This website provides general information about federal criminal law and procedure and about the legal services the firm offers. It is an informational and communications resource, not a source of individualized legal advice, and it is not a substitute for consulting a lawyer about your own situation.

3. Who May Use This Website

This website is intended for people seeking information about federal criminal matters and legal services, including individuals, family members, employers, other professionals and the media. Minors may have legitimate reasons to read this material; where appropriate and permitted by law, a minor seeking legal assistance should involve a parent, guardian or other appropriate adult. Do not use the website if applicable law prohibits you from doing so.

4. No Attorney-Client Relationship

Using this website, reading its content, running a calculator, or submitting a form, email, text or message does not create an attorney-client relationship. Representation begins only after the firm has agreed to undertake the matter and any required conflicts review and written engagement agreement are complete. See the Legal Disclaimer for details.

5. User Submissions

When you send a message, form submission, document, question or feedback through this website, you agree that:

• the information you submit is accurate to the best of your knowledge;
• you are legally permitted to provide it, and it is not subject to a protective order, sealing order or confidentiality obligation that prohibits disclosure;
• you will not submit unnecessary confidential, privileged or highly sensitive material before representation is confirmed; and
• you will not submit material that is unlawful, malicious or infringing.

You retain all rights in what you submit. You grant the firm only the limited permission needed to receive, transmit, store, display internally, review and respond to your submission, including through the service providers described in the Privacy Policy. Nothing here gives the firm the right to publish, sell or commercially exploit your case information. General feedback about the website itself may be used to improve the site without obligation to you.

6. Prohibited Use

You agree not to:

• attempt unauthorized access to the website, its systems or any account or data;
• introduce viruses, malware or other malicious code;
• use automated tools in a way that materially burdens or degrades the website or its infrastructure;
• interfere with, probe or circumvent security or access controls;
• impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation;
• submit fraudulent, harassing or deliberately false inquiries;
• use website content or tools to facilitate unlawful activity; or
• reverse engineer secure functionality except where applicable law expressly permits it.

Ordinary, well-behaved search-engine crawling and indexing of publicly available pages is permitted.

7. Calculators and Interactive Features

Interactive tools, including the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Calculator, are informational only. Output depends entirely on the values you enter and on general assumptions built into the tool. You are responsible for the accuracy of your inputs. No tool on this site provides legal advice, predicts an outcome or guarantees any legal result, and no acceptance of these Terms is required to run the calculator.

8. Intellectual Property

The website’s original text, page design, layout, branding, logos, graphics, software, calculator implementation and other original materials are owned by the firm or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

The firm claims no ownership of federal statutes, regulations, Sentencing Guidelines text, court decisions, court rules, government forms or other public-domain government materials, and third-party materials remain the property of their owners.

9. Limited Permitted Use

You may view, download and print pages from this website for your own personal, informational or non-commercial reference, and you may link to pages on this site. You may not republish, redistribute, resell or systematically copy substantial portions of the site’s original content for commercial purposes without permission. Brief quotation with attribution and a link is welcome.

10. Third-Party Content

Links to courts, agencies, statutes and other outside resources are provided for convenience. The firm does not control third-party sites or services, is not responsible for their content or availability, and does not endorse them by linking. Your use of a third-party site is governed by that site’s own terms and privacy practices.

11. Accuracy and Availability

The firm works to keep this website accurate and current, but does not promise that content is complete, error-free or up to date, or that the website will be available, uninterrupted or free of defects. Content may be changed, updated or removed at any time without notice.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

The website and its content are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the firm disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness and uninterrupted availability. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the firm and its personnel will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits or lost data, arising out of your use of, or inability to use, this website or its interactive tools, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including liability arising under applicable rules of professional conduct or for fraud or willful misconduct. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify the firm against claims, damages and reasonable costs arising from your misuse of this website — specifically, your violation of the Prohibited Use section, your infringement of another party’s rights, or your submission of material you were not legally permitted to send. This obligation does not apply to an ordinary, good-faith request for legal help.

15. Privacy

Your use of this website is also subject to the Privacy Policy, which describes how information may be collected, used, disclosed and protected.

16. Electronic Communications

Communications through this website may take place by web form, email, text message where applicable and other electronic channels. Electronic delivery is not guaranteed: messages can fail, be delayed, be filtered as spam or go unread. The firm does not promise that any particular communication will be received or reviewed within any specific time, and you should not rely on an electronic message for an urgent matter or deadline.

17. Changes to These Terms

These Terms may be updated from time to time. The version posted on this page is the version currently in effect, and the Last Updated date will be revised when material changes are made. Continued use of the website after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

18. Governing Law

Your use of this website is governed by applicable law. Any dispute arising out of your use of the website — as distinct from any matter for which the firm has been formally engaged — will be resolved in a forum with appropriate jurisdiction. Nothing in these Terms limits any ethical or professional obligation that applies to attorney advertising or communications in the jurisdictions where this website may be viewed.

19. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

20. Entire Terms

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Legal Disclaimer, govern your use of this website. If the firm and a client enter into a separate written engagement agreement, that agreement controls the attorney-client relationship and prevails over these Terms to the extent of any conflict.

21. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent through the contact page.