Because we are attorneys admitted to practice law in California, the California State Bar regulates this website, its contents, and communications made through it. We want you to be aware of a few items so that we comply with our licensing rules. These items apply to all information on our website, anything you forward to us through it, and all communications we have whether through this website, email, text, or phone. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at (530) 758-8317, thelaw@mytrustedlawyer.com, or at the firm’s address at the bottom of this page.

No Attorney-Client Relationship

Our website provides general information about our practice, as well as articles about specific legal topics. We provide our website for use by the general public. While these resources may be about legal matters, they are for educational and informational purposes only and should never be regarded as legal advice. They are not intended to establish an attorney-client relationship and do not trigger the accompanying attorney-client privilege. This is true even if you contact us or submit forms to us.  An attorney-client relationship can only be formed with us at a meeting with our attorneys.

Contacting Us

When you contact us through our website, you give us consent to communicate with you in a variety of ways. Of course, you can withdraw that consent at any time by just letting us know. Note that any information you share with us, including completed forms, will be treated confidentially recognizing that you are deciding whether to establish an attorney-client relationship with us. But such contact will not establish an attorney-client relationship until we mutually agree to work together.

Information & Blog Provide No Legal Advice

As noted above, our website and all information on it is not designed to provide legal advice. It does not replace professional legal judgment, and you should not depend on it for any legal purposes. Of course, we take efforts to make sure all information on our website is correct and accurate, but we do not guarantee accuracy or completeness. The information provided is without any warranty.

The articles we publish on our Blog are similarly provided with the aim of educating the public generally and should not be regarded as legal advice. Our writings often summarize general principals and do not provide every possible nuance. They, and all information on our website, are provided “as is” without any warranty, representation, or claim of any kind. For instance, the information may not be updated at all or on a timely basis, may not reflect changes in law, and of course may not apply to your individual situation. You should never act on any article without getting professional legal advice.

If you subscribe to our blog, you may be notified when we publish new articles. We reserve the right to terminate the subscription at any time and for any reason, and you understand that may happen without prior notice from us.

Data Security

We take steps to protect information transferred over the Internet, and data you submit to us through our website forms is encrypted and secured using industry-standard 256-bit SSL encryption. However, nothing can be 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the safety of your personal data as it is communicated across the Internet and through network communication facilities. Electronic communications can be accessed by sophisticated means, and you accept that all transmissions are at your own risk.

Privacy

Your privacy is of critical importance – both to you and to us. Our website collects your personally identifiable information only if you voluntarily input such information and provide it to us. For instance, you might provide us with your name, contact details, and other information in an inquiry form, questionnaire, or through an email. We will use such information for two purposes only: to communicate with you, and to help us provide you with services if we agree to establish an attorney-client relationship.

 The computer systems and service providers we use do collect other non-personally identifiable information when people visit our website or interact with it. For instance, they may detect the type of browser people are using, or whether they have visited our website before. They also collect aggregate information about overall usage. These systems and providers use “cookies” – a small bit of data that gets stored on a visitor’s device. For instance, we use Squarespace to run this website, and they use cookies to help the site run effectively, provide the user experience for our website visitors, and provide us analytics about overall usage of the site. Similarly, we use Clio legal practice management software to help manage our intake and contact forms. You can always change the settings of your browser to prevent such cookies from being stored (to read more how that works, you can go here https://allaboutcookies.org/). Depending on the cookies you deactivate, your user experience on our website may suffer.

Copyright & Ownership

The information on our website and the articles we publish are generally written and owned by us unless otherwise noted (e.g., a link to another website). That means we own the copyright to our material. We give you the right to view, download, print, copy, and share all information on our site as long as you comply with ALL of these requirements: (1) you do so for your own personal non-commercial purposes only; (2) you do not remove any copyright notices or other information identifying authorship and ownership; and (3) you do not modify the content in any way. If you wish to use our information in any other way, including linking our website or any pages on our website elsewhere, please reach out to us to discuss.

If we provide links to other websites, we do so because we think they or their information may be useful or of interest to you. However, we do not endorse or recommend those websites or their offerings, and of course cannot control them and thus make no assurances about their reliability or accuracy.

Legal Advertising

 Some jurisdictions may regard portions of this website as “attorney advertising.” Like everything else we do, advertising is similarly regulated by the California Bar. We, Raphael and Netania Moore, are responsible for this website.

Required IRS Circular 230 Disclosure

Finally, because we may provide U.S. federal tax advice, regulations of the U.S. Treasury require us to let you know that nothing on our website was written, or intended, to (1) be used to promote, market, or recommend to anyone any transaction, tax plan, arrangement, or treatment, and (2) be used by anyone for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be imposed by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

If you have questions about any of the above, let us know by email at thelaw@mytrustedlawyer.com or call us at (530) 758-8317.