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These terms apply to anyone using this website. The two that matter most are first, because on a law firm's site they are the ones people are actually looking for.
1. Using this site does not make us your lawyers
No attorney-client relationship is created by reading this site, by sending us a message through it, by emailing us, or by leaving a voicemail. One is created only when we have agreed to act for you and have said so, normally in a written fee arrangement, which New York requires for most matters.
Until that point we are not your lawyers, and the protection that covers a conversation with your own attorney is not yet in place. There is a practical reason to keep a first message brief, and it is explained on our contact page.
2. Nothing here is legal advice
The pages on this site describe how New York law generally works. They do not tell you what to do about your own situation, and they cannot, because the answer always turns on facts a web page has no way of knowing.
Do not act, or decide not to act, on the basis of anything you read here. If something on this site is relevant to a decision you are about to make, that is a reason to call a lawyer, not a substitute for it. Deadlines in particular are unforgiving: several described on this site are far shorter than people expect.
3. Attorney advertising
This website is attorney advertising under the New York Rules of Professional Conduct. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every matter turns on its own facts, and no result is promised or implied anywhere on this site.
The client reviews we publish are reproduced as they were written on Google, unedited. They describe those clients' experiences and are not a prediction about yours.
4. Accuracy, and why the dates matter
Where a page states a rule, a penalty, a fee or a deadline, it names the source and the date the figure was checked. That is deliberate, and it is the honest way to publish legal information, because the law moves.
Two examples from 2026 alone. New York deleted a category from the serious injury threshold and changed the comparative fault rule for motor vehicle claims in May. The DMV changed its point values and one of its lookback windows in February. A great deal of what is published elsewhere still describes the previous versions of both.
We keep this site current, but we cannot promise that every figure on every page reflects the law on the day you read it. Check the date next to the figure, and treat anything undated anywhere on the internet with suspicion.
5. Where we practice
Our attorneys are licensed in New York. This site is directed to people in New York, principally Onondaga and Cortland counties. Nothing here is an offer to practice law in a jurisdiction where we are not admitted.
6. Links to other sites
We link to statutes, court pages, the DMV and other primary sources because a legal claim should be checkable. Those sites are not ours. We do not control their content, their availability, or what they do with your information, and a link is not an endorsement of anything beyond the fact the source exists.
7. Content on this site
The text, layout and images here are the firm's, except for material quoted from public sources such as statutes and court records, which remains public. You are welcome to read it, print it, link to it and quote it with attribution. Republishing substantial parts as your own is not permitted.
Client reviews belong to the people who wrote them and are reproduced here as published.
8. Availability and limits
We try to keep the site accurate and available, and we do not promise it will be either at every moment. To the extent the law allows, the firm is not liable for loss arising from use of this website or from reliance on its general information. Nothing in this paragraph limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and nothing in it affects the duties we owe to actual clients, which are governed by the rules of professional conduct rather than by a website.
9. Changes
These terms can change. The date at the top changes when they do, and the version in force is the one published here when you use the site.
10. Governing law
New York law governs these terms and any dispute about this website, without regard to conflict of law rules. Any such dispute belongs in the state or federal courts sitting in New York.
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