1. Acceptance of These Terms

This website is owned and operated by Grisham & Poole, P.C. References to “Grisham & Poole,” “the firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to Grisham & Poole, P.C. References to “you” or “your” refer to any person who visits, accesses, or uses this website.

By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. Do not use the website if you do not agree to these terms.

2. Information, Not Legal Advice

The information on this website is provided for general educational and informational purposes. It does not constitute legal advice and should not replace advice from an attorney who has reviewed the facts of your particular situation.

Laws, court rules, regulations, deadlines, and legal procedures may change. They may also apply differently based on the facts, location, court, and parties involved. You should not act, delay action, or make an important legal decision based solely on information found on this website.

Contact a qualified attorney promptly when you need advice concerning a legal matter or deadline.

3. No Attorney-Client Relationship

Visiting this website, reading its content, calling the firm, sending an email, submitting a website form, making an online payment, or communicating with a firm employee does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship.

Grisham & Poole accepts a legal matter only after the firm:

1. Reviews the nature of the matter;
2. Completes any required conflict-of-interest review;
3. Agrees to accept the representation; and
4. Enters into a formal, written engagement agreement with client(s) when required.

Do not assume that the firm represents you unless Grisham & Poole has expressly confirmed the representation.

4. Confidential and Time-Sensitive Information

Please do not send confidential, privileged, sensitive, or time-sensitive information through this website before the firm has confirmed that it can consider or accept your matter.

Applicable professional obligations may protect certain communications with prospective clients. However, submitting information does not guarantee that the firm can represent you, prevent the firm from representing another person, or create an attorney-client relationship.

Internet communications are not always secure. Website forms, ordinary email, text messages, and voicemail may be delayed, misdirected, intercepted, or accessed by someone other than the intended recipient. Do not use these methods to communicate an approaching filing deadline, court date, statute of limitation, emergency, or other urgent matter.

If immediate action is required, contact the appropriate court, emergency service, law-enforcement agency, or attorney directly.

5. No Guarantee of Legal Results

Descriptions of prior cases, client experiences, reviews, attorney credentials, or past results do not guarantee that the same or a similar result can be obtained in another matter.

Every legal matter depends on its own facts, available evidence, applicable law, opposing parties, court, judge, prosecutor, and other circumstances. Grisham & Poole does not promise or guarantee a particular result.

6. Legal Services and Jurisdictions

This website describes legal services that Grisham & Poole may provide in jurisdictions where its attorneys are properly licensed, admitted, or otherwise authorized to practice.

Website content is not intended as a solicitation or offer to provide legal services in a jurisdiction where doing so would violate applicable professional rules or law.

An attorney biography, practice-area description, or statement about geographic service areas does not mean that every attorney handles every type of case or is admitted in every court.

7. Permitted Use of the Website

You may use this website for lawful, personal, and informational purposes. Subject to these Terms, the firm grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, and nontransferable right to access and view publicly available website content.

You may print or save a reasonable number of pages for personal, noncommercial reference, provided that you do not remove copyright, trademark, attribution, or disclaimer notices.

8. Prohibited Conduct

You may not use this website to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, court order, or legal right;
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity;
• Submit information that you know is false, misleading, or fraudulent;
• Transmit malware, viruses, harmful code, or disruptive technology;
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, server, accounts, forms, databases, or connected systems;
• Interfere with the website’s operation, security, availability, or performance;
• Use automated tools to scrape, harvest, reproduce, or republish website content without written permission;
• Collect personal information about other website users;
• Send abusive, threatening, harassing, hateful, obscene, or unlawful communications;
• Use the website or its content to compete with, misrepresent, or falsely imply an affiliation with Grisham & Poole; or
• Encourage another person to engage in prohibited conduct.

We may restrict or terminate access to the website when we reasonably believe a person has misused it or threatened its security.

9. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, Grisham & Poole or its licensors own the website’s original text, graphics, photographs, videos, page designs, logos, trademarks, service marks, downloadable materials, and other content.

Copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws protect this material. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, modify, sell, license, display, or create derivative works from website content without prior written permission, except as permitted by law.

Third-party names, logos, badges, and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance on this website does not necessarily indicate an endorsement, sponsorship, or formal business relationship unless the website expressly states otherwise.

10. Information You Submit

You are responsible for ensuring that information you submit is accurate and that you have the legal right to provide it.

By voluntarily submitting information, you authorize the firm to use it as reasonably necessary to:

• Respond to your inquiry;
• Evaluate whether the firm may consider or accept the matter;
• Complete conflict checks;
• Schedule consultations;
• Process authorized payments;
• Maintain website and business security; and
• Comply with professional, legal, or regulatory obligations.

The firm will handle submitted information in accordance with applicable professional obligations and our Privacy Policy.

11. Third-Party Websites and Services

This website may link to courts, government agencies, professional directories, mapping services, review platforms, payment processors, social-media services, or other third-party websites.

We provide these links for convenience. Grisham & Poole does not control and is not responsible for the availability, accessibility, security, privacy practices, accuracy, or content of third-party websites.

A link does not necessarily constitute an endorsement. Your use of a third-party website is governed by that provider’s own terms and privacy policies.

12. Online Payments

Grisham & Poole may provide access to an online payment service as a convenience to clients and other authorized payors. Payment transactions may be processed by an independent third-party provider.

By submitting a payment, you represent that:

• You are authorized to use the selected payment method;
• The payment information you provide is accurate;
• You authorize the stated amount to be charged; and
• You are making the payment for the client or matter identified in the transaction.

Making a payment does not create an attorney-client relationship, confirm that the firm has accepted a matter, or modify the terms of an existing engagement agreement.

The applicable engagement agreement and firm billing policies control the treatment of legal fees, retainers, costs, trust-account funds, refunds, and disputed payments. The payment processor may impose additional terms concerning its services.

Contact the firm promptly if you believe a payment was submitted in error or without authorization.

13. Privacy and Cookies

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and disclose information associated with this website.

The website may use cookies, analytics tools, security technologies, embedded services, or similar technologies to operate the website, understand traffic, improve performance, prevent abuse, and measure marketing effectiveness.

Third-party services may collect information under their own privacy policies. Browser settings and available consent controls may allow you to limit certain cookies, although disabling them may affect website functions.

14. Website Availability and Security

We make reasonable efforts to maintain a useful and secure website. However, we do not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or free from harmful components.

We may update, suspend, restrict, redesign, or discontinue any part of the website without prior notice. We may also remove or revise information that has become inaccurate, outdated, incomplete, or no longer useful.

You are responsible for protecting your devices, accounts, passwords, networks, and data when using the internet.

15. Accessibility

Grisham & Poole seeks to provide a website that is usable by people with a wide range of abilities and technologies.

Please contact us if you experience difficulty accessing website content or need information in another reasonably available format. We welcome specific information about the page, feature, device, browser, or assistive technology involved so that we can investigate the issue.

16. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, this website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

Grisham & Poole disclaims warranties and representations concerning the website’s completeness, accuracy, reliability, availability, security, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement, except where a warranty cannot legally be excluded.

Nothing in these Terms limits professional duties that apply to an attorney-client relationship created through a separate engagement agreement.

17. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Grisham & Poole and its attorneys, employees, agents, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from:

• Your access to or use of the website;
• Your inability to access or use the website;
• Your reliance on general website information;
• Errors, omissions, interruptions, or security incidents;
• Third-party websites, services, or content; or
• Unauthorized access to internet communications.

These limitations do not apply where applicable law prohibits them. They also do not limit obligations arising from an established attorney-client relationship to the extent those obligations cannot lawfully be limited.

18. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold Grisham & Poole and its attorneys, employees, and service providers harmless from third-party claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable expenses arising from your unlawful use of the website, violation of these Terms, infringement of another person’s rights, or submission of content you had no legal right to provide.

This provision does not apply to claims arising from an attorney-client relationship or where indemnification is prohibited by applicable law or professional rules.

19. Client Engagement Agreements

These Terms govern use of the public website. They do not replace or modify a signed engagement agreement between Grisham & Poole and a client.

If a provision in these Terms conflicts with a valid engagement agreement concerning legal representation, the engagement agreement controls with respect to that representation.

An engagement agreement may contain additional provisions concerning the scope of representation, legal fees, expenses, billing, communications, file retention, termination, or dispute resolution.

20. Governing Law

Georgia law governs these Website Terms of Use, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where federal law or another applicable law controls.

Any dispute arising solely from use of this website will be brought in a court with lawful jurisdiction over Cherokee County, Georgia, unless applicable law requires another location.

This section does not establish the venue or dispute-resolution terms for a legal representation. Any applicable engagement agreement controls those matters.

21. General Provisions

Severability

If a court determines that a provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

No Waiver

A delay or failure to enforce a provision does not waive the right to enforce that provision or another provision later.

Entire Agreement Concerning Website Use

These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the agreement between you and the firm concerning public use of this website. They do not govern an attorney-client relationship created through a separate engagement agreement.

Headings

Section headings improve readability and do not change the meaning of these Terms.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms to reflect changes in the website, firm practices, technology, legal requirements, or professional responsibilities.

We will post the revised Terms on this page and update the “Last Updated” date. Changes become effective when posted unless the revised Terms state otherwise.

Your continued use of the website after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

23. Contact Us

Contact Grisham & Poole with questions about these Website Terms of Use or difficulty accessing website content:

Do not use any contact form to submit confidential information or request urgent legal assistance.