Terms of Use for This Website

These terms apply to this website, which Fred Yadegar’s law office publishes, and to every person who visits it, reads it, or submits information on it. Use of the site is acceptance of the terms. If you would rather not accept them, please do not use the site.

Acceptance and revisions

Visiting the site, completing a form, or submitting information on it means you accept these terms together with the Privacy Policy and the Disclaimer, both of which form part of them. The office may revise the terms whenever it chooses by publishing a new version on this page. The version published here is the one in force, and using the site after a revision counts as acceptance of it.

No advice and no representation through this site

The site offers general information only. Nothing on it is legal advice, and reading it does not make the office your lawyer; representation begins only when both sides have signed a written engagement agreement. The Disclaimer covers this in more detail.

Information you submit

Information you send through the site remains yours. By sending it, you allow the office to use it to reply to you, to run a conflict check, and to log the contact; the office does not use it for advertising. Before the office has agreed in writing to represent you, hold back confidential documents and detailed sensitive information. A short description of the situation and your contact details are enough at that stage, and sending them does not obligate the office to accept your matter.

Consent to calls and text messages

If you give the office a phone number and indicate that you agree to be contacted, you are consenting to calls and text messages at that number regarding your inquiry. The number of messages varies, and your carrier’s message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to any text to end messages, or HELP for assistance. You may hire the office without agreeing to texts. The full text-messaging terms are in the Privacy Policy.

What you may and may not do

Permitted use and ownership

Pages may be viewed, downloaded, and printed for your own non-commercial purposes, such as learning how California law treats your situation or what this office does. The text, layouts, graphics, and other material on the site belong to the office or to its licensors, and copyright and trademark law protect them; certain photographs are licensed from third parties. No other license is granted by these terms.

Conduct that is not permitted

When using this site you agree that you will not:

• use it for anything unlawful, or to threaten, harass, or impersonate any person
• submit information that is false, or another person’s information without their authority
• copy, scrape, frame, or republish its content, or reuse it on a competing site, without written permission
• try to break into the site, its server, or any system connected to it
• introduce viruses, automated bots, or other harmful code, or disrupt how the site operates
• interfere with anyone else’s use of the site

Warranties and liability

The site and everything on it are supplied as is and as available, without express or implied warranties of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, non-infringement, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. There is no promise that the site will stay available, run without errors, or remain free of harmful code.

To the extent the law permits, the office, together with its attorneys, staff, and contractors, is not liable for consequential, incidental, indirect, special, or punitive damages, or for lost data, arising from use of the site, inability to use it, or reliance on anything it contains. Certain jurisdictions do not permit some of these limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here reduces any duty owed to you under a signed engagement agreement or under the professional rules that bind California attorneys.

Outside links

Links to other websites are offered for convenience only. The office does not control those sites and is not responsible for their content or their practices.

Governing law and venue

California law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute concerning the site or these terms must be filed in a state or federal court sitting in Los Angeles County, California, and you agree to that venue. The office’s clients are in Los Angeles County and Orange County, and these terms do not offer legal services anywhere outside California.

Reaching us

Send questions about these terms through the contact page.