These notices govern your use of singler-law.net. They cover the absence of an attorney-client relationship, the limits of what is published here, and the terms under which the site is made available.

Please read Section 12. It requires most disputes about how this website handles personal information to be resolved by individual arbitration rather than in court, and it waives class and representative actions for those disputes. You may opt out within 30 days and nothing about your relationship with the firm changes if you do.

1. No attorney-client relationship

No attorney-client relationship will be established until we have each signed a written engagement letter; 2) SPLC has performed a conflict check; and 3) any other terms, conditions or limitations in the engagement letter have been met. So, for example, reading singler-law.net, using the Legal Vitals check-up, downloading anything from it, submitting the Strategy Session form, sending an email, sending a WhatsApp message, or calling the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Until that happens, the firm has no duty to respond to you and no obligation to represent you, and it may decline any matter for any lawful reason.

Deadlines do not wait for us. Any statute of limitations, filing deadline, or notice period that applies to your situation keeps running whether or not you have contacted us, and we are not responsible for a deadline you miss. If you think something is time-sensitive, get advice from an attorney now.

2. Before you send anything

Do not send confidential or sensitive information through singler-law.net until a written engagement agreement is in place. Information sent beforehand may not be protected as confidential and may not disqualify the firm from representing another party whose interests are adverse to yours.

The message box on the Strategy Session form asks for a general topic only. Please keep it general. Tell us the kind of problem, not the facts of it.

Nothing in this section waives or limits any duty the firm owes under California Business and Professions Code section 6068(e) or California Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6, 1.9, or 1.18, or under the corresponding rules of Texas or Idaho.

3. No legal advice

The information on this website is for general information purposes only. Nothing on this site should be taken as legal advice for any individual case or situation. This information is not intended to create, and receipt or viewing does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship.

Laws change, and laws are applied according to specific facts. Material here may be out of date or may not apply to your circumstances. Do not act, or decline to act, on anything you read here without getting advice from a qualified attorney about your specific situation.

4. Where we are admitted

Peter A. Singler, Esq. is admitted to practice law in California (State Bar No. 153922), Texas (State Bar No. 24145681), and Idaho (State Bar No. 13134). While Mr. Singler is a Texas resident, the firm's main business office is in Windsor, California. Depending on the issue, we may provide advice to parties and relating to matters outside of these states, either directly or by associating with local counsel. Any jurisdictional issues will be addressed in the written engagement letter.

5. Jurisdiction and governing law

Singler-law.net is published from California and is directed at businesses operating in California and Texas. It is not directed at, and should not be relied on by, anyone in a jurisdiction where its publication would be contrary to local law or professional rules.

Except for disputes covered by the arbitration provision in Section 12, any dispute arising out of your use of singler-law.net is governed by the laws of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Travis County, Texas have exclusive jurisdiction.

6. Intellectual property

The text, design, graphics, charts, and arrangement of singler-law.net are the property of Singler Professional Law Corporation and are protected by copyright and other laws. You may read, print, and share pages for your own non-commercial reference. You may not republish, sell, or use them to build a competing service without written permission.

You may not use the contents of this site to train, fine-tune, or ground any artificial intelligence or machine-learning model, or to build a dataset for that purpose, without our written permission. Public search engines may index the site in the ordinary course.

"Singler," the firm's name, and its logo are marks of the firm. Third-party names and marks appearing on this site belong to their owners and are used for identification only.

7. Links to other sites

Where singler-law.net links to another organization, including our main firm website at singler-law.com, that link is provided for convenience. We do not control those sites, we do not endorse their content, and we are not responsible for what they publish or how they handle your information.

8. Fraud alert

People sometimes impersonate law firms to solicit payments or personal information.

We will never ask you to send money, wire funds, or provide banking information through a messaging app, a social media direct message, or an unsolicited email or text. Our attorneys and staff write from addresses at our own domain.

If you get a message that looks like it came from us and you are not certain, do not reply to it and do not use any phone number or link inside it. Call us at (707) 823-8719, using the number published on this site.

9. Acceptable use

You may not use automated systems to scrape or copy the site beyond ordinary search-engine indexing, attempt to gain unauthorized access to it, interfere with its operation, submit information on someone else's behalf without authority, or use anything from it to send unsolicited commercial messages.

10. No warranty

Singler-law.net is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent the law allows, the firm disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose, and does not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error free, or free of harmful components.

11. Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, the firm is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your access to or use of singler-law.net, or your reliance on anything published here. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, in which case they apply to the extent permitted.

These limits do not apply to any obligation arising from a signed engagement agreement; any claim by a client or by a prospective client, as defined in California Rule of Professional Conduct 1.18, arising from information submitted to the firm; any liability that cannot be limited under California law; or any obligation under the rules of professional conduct governing attorneys in California, Texas, or Idaho.

12. Disputes about personal information: individual arbitration

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY.

It requires most disputes about how this website handles personal information to be resolved by binding individual arbitration instead of in court, and it waives class and representative actions for those disputes. You can opt out within 30 days — see 12.10 — and opting out changes nothing else about your relationship with the firm.

12.1 What this covers

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the capture, collection, use, storage, retention, disclosure, or dissemination of personal information or protected information through singler-law.net — including claims under any privacy, data protection, wiretapping, eavesdropping, recording, pen register, trap and trace, or consumer protection statute, and including any question about the existence, scope, validity, or enforceability of this provision, other than the enforceability of paragraph 12.7, which a court shall decide — shall be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration rather than in court.

Except as provided in 12.12, this provision applies to such claims whether they arose before, on, or after the date you accepted these Legal Notices.

12.2 What this does not cover

This provision does not apply to:

any dispute about the firm's legal services or about a client matter, which is governed by the signed engagement agreement and controls over anything on this website;
any claim arising from the firm's professional duties to a prospective client under California Rule of Professional Conduct 1.18(b)–(d) or the corresponding rules of Texas or Idaho — meaning duties of confidentiality and conflicts arising from a consultation, and not claims about how this website collects or handles data;
any claim of legal malpractice or breach of professional duty;
a request to a court for temporary injunctive relief to protect intellectual property or confidential information;
any claim for public injunctive relief. Nothing in this provision waives any right you may have to seek public injunctive relief. A claim for public injunctive relief is severed from arbitration and may be brought in the courts identified in Section 5, and the rest of this Section 12 continues to apply to your other claims.

12.3 Governing law for this provision

The Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., and Texas law governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration provision. This section governs over the general choice-of-law clause in Section 5 for disputes covered by this Section 12.

12.4 Where the arbitration happens

Arbitration will be held in Travis County, Texas. If all parties agree, the arbitration may be held remotely by video appearance.

12.5 Administrator and rules

The arbitration will be administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards, before a single arbitrator.

If the selected administrator is unavailable or unwilling to administer the arbitration consistent with this provision, the parties will agree on a substitute; failing agreement, a court of competent jurisdiction will appoint one.

12.6 Who pays

The firm pays all arbitration filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees in excess of the amount you would have paid to file the same claim in the small claims court where you live. Each side otherwise bears its own attorney's fees and costs, except that the arbitrator may award fees and costs where a statute provides for them, or where the arbitrator finds a claim or defense was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose.

12.7 Individual basis only

You and the firm each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may award relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim. This paragraph does not apply to, and does not waive, any claim for public injunctive relief, which is governed by 12.2. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of class or representative proceeding.

If this paragraph 12.7 is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — shall proceed in the courts identified in Section 5, and the remainder of this Section 12 continues to apply to all other claims.

12.8 Coordinated filings

Where 25 or more substantially similar demands are filed by or with the coordination of the same counsel, the parties will cooperate with the administrator to resolve them efficiently, including by selecting a reasonable number of representative cases to be heard first, tolling limitations periods for the remainder while those proceed, and participating in a single mediation before further cases are heard. This paragraph is procedural, applies equally to both sides, and does not limit any party's substantive rights.

12.9 How you accepted this

You accepted these Legal Notices by ticking the box next to the Strategy Session form, above the submit button, which named this arbitration provision and the class action waiver before you clicked. We record which version of this text was on the screen, and when. If you never ticked that box, this Section 12 does not apply to you.

12.10 Your right to opt out

You may reject this arbitration provision entirely. Send written notice within 30 days of the first time you accepted these Legal Notices, by email to [email protected] with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out," or by mail to Singler Professional Law Corporation, 103 Johnson Street, Windsor, California 95492. Include your name and the email address or phone number you gave us.

That is all it takes. Opting out has no effect on anything else — not on your use of the site, not on whether we will speak with you, not on any representation. If you opt out, disputes covered by this section are resolved in the courts identified in Section 5.

12.11 What you are giving up, and what you are not

For the disputes described in 12.1, you and the firm each give up the right to a court and to a trial by jury. Discovery in arbitration is more limited than in court, and an arbitrator's award is subject to very limited review. An arbitrator can award the same individual relief a court could award under the applicable statute, including statutory damages and individual injunctive relief.

Nothing here prevents you from filing a complaint with a government agency, including the California Privacy Protection Agency, the California Attorney General, the Texas Attorney General, the Federal Trade Commission, or the State Bar of California, Texas, or Idaho. Nothing here requires you to arbitrate a claim that cannot lawfully be arbitrated.

Nothing here waives or limits any right that applicable privacy law makes non-waivable. For example, California Civil Code section 1798.192 makes void any provision purporting to waive or limit a consumer's rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and this provision is not intended to do so.

12.12 Severability and survival

If any part of this Section 12 other than paragraph 12.7 is found unenforceable, that part shall be severed and the remainder shall continue to apply. If the requirement to arbitrate is itself found unenforceable as to a particular dispute, that dispute shall proceed in the courts identified in Section 5. This Section 12 survives any termination of your use of singler-law.net.

12.13 Changes

If we change this Section 12, the change applies only to disputes arising after the change takes effect, and we will post the revised version with a new date and reset the acceptance record so that you are asked again rather than carried over.

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