Disclaimer and Legal Notices
Gramm-Leech-Bliley Privacy Policy
The Texas Lawyer's Creed - A Mandate
for Professionalism
Please read these notices carefully.
USE OF RESOURCES
This site has been prepared and made
available by The Overton Law Firm, P.C. for general informational
purposes only. Use of this Web site does not create an attorney-client
relationship between you and The Overton Law Firm, P.C., nor is
it intended to do so. The materials on this site are not legal advice
and nothing in this Web site should be used by the reader as a source
of legal advice. By its nature and circumstances, each legal problem
and any past performance does not guarantee future results. Persons
receiving information from this website should not act upon the
information without seeking professional legal counsel.
The materials on this Web site may not
reflect the most current legal developments, verdicts or settlements,
and should not be considered an indication of future results. If
these materials are inconsistent with the rules governing attorney
communications in a particular jurisdiction, and the materials result
in a client contact in such jurisdiction, The Overton Law Firm,
P.C. may be prohibited from assuming representation of the client
contact. Please consult an attorney for individual advice regarding
your own particular situation.
Please do not send us or e-mail any information
about any legal matter that may involve you unless and until you
have entered into an Engagement Letter with the Firm.
NON-CONFIDENTIAL NATURE OF INTERNET
MAIL
Generally, e-mail is NOT SECURE and may
be intercepted by other parties.
If you wish to inquire about becoming a client, please request a
personal interview. Please do not send or e-mail us any information
about any legal matter. We will not consider any e-mail regarding
new client representation as anything other than a request for a
personal interview.
PRIVACY POLICY
The Overton Law Firm, P.C. regards your
right to a confidential and private relationship with your attorney
as a most sacred trust. This relationship is essential to the proper
functioning of the legal system and the fiduciary relationship existing
between lawyer and client. An open discussion between lawyer and
client affords clients the full benefit of the legal system. Lawyers
are subject to ethical rules and mandates such as the TX lawyer
creed that govern their conduct in this relationship. These ethics
rules require the lawyer to preserve confidential information of
the client or one who has sought to employ the lawyer.
Finally federal law requires that we
inform our clients of the firm’s policy regarding privacy
and confidentiality of "nonpublic personal information."
Read the Firm's Gramm-Leech-Bililey Privacy Policy
To protect client information, the firm
restricts access to information about you to those employees who
need to know that information to provide services to you. We maintain
physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your information
safeguards that to guard your nonpublic personal information. We
take our commitment to ethics seriously.
COPYRIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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contained on this Site may violate copyright laws, trademark laws,
the laws of privacy and publicity, and other regulations and statutes.
The copyrights in all text, images, screens
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"Resources") are owned by The Overton Law Firm, P.C. and,
in some cases, by third parties. Except as provided below, none
of the Resources may be copied, reproduced, distributed, downloaded,
displayed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the
prior written permission of the copyright owner. You may copy, reproduce,
distribute, download, display, or transmit the contents of this
Web Site for personal, non-commercial use solely within your own
organization, provided that, you do not modify the contents or create
derivative works, and that you retain all copyright and other proprietary
notices contained in the Resources. This limited permission to use
the Resources terminates automatically if you breach any of these
terms or conditions. Upon termination, you must immediately destroy
any Resources that exist in printed, electronic, or any other form.
LINKS TO EXTERNAL WEB SITES
The Firm may provide links within the
Site that lead to other websites, including those operated and maintained
by third parties. The Firm includes these links merely as a convenience.
This Web Site does not incorporate any materials whatsoever appearing
in such linked sites by reference. Finally, the inclusion of these
links does not imply that the firm sponsors, endorses, or otherwise
approves in any manner of the linked sites, their contents, or their
operators.
WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
This web site, excluding linked sites, is controlled by The Overton
Law Firm, P.C. from its office within the state of Texas. The Web
Site can be accessed from around the world. As each of the States,
Provinces, and Countries have laws that may differ from those of
the state of Texas, by accessing this web site both you and The
Overton Law Firm, P.C. agree that the laws of the state of Texas,
without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof, will
apply to all matters relating to use of this web site.
You and The Overton Law Firm, P.C. also agree and hereby submit
to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the Courts of
Competent Jurisdiction of Harris County, Texas and the United States
District Court for the Southern District of Texas with respect to
such matters. The Overton Law Firm, P.C. makes no representation
that materials on this web site are appropriate or available for
use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where
their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access
this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and
are responsible for compliance with local laws.
Except as specifically stated on this site, neither The Overton
Law Firm, P.C. nor employees or other representatives thereof will
be liable for damages arising out of, or in connection with, the
use of this site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability
that applies to all damages of any kind, including, without limitation,
compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of
data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims
of third parties.
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