Attorney agreement

RecourseLink Attorney Protected-Access Platform Agreement.

Current protected-access terms version: 2026-08-08-attorney-platform-terms-v7. These are not the free application terms. An attorney and authorized firm signer must accept this separate current version before protected portal use.

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1. Parties, Agreement, and Acceptance

This Attorney Protected-Access Platform Agreement governs an attorney's or firm's later use of RecourseLink private-review gates, source-backed intelligence workflows, commercial access tools, and related protected platform features.
The attorney or firm accepts this Agreement only through the separate protected-access terms flow after the current version is presented. Submitting a free attorney-network application does not accept this Agreement.
The public attorney agreement page is a readable copy of the operative terms. Where a signed or electronically accepted version conflicts with a public summary, the electronically accepted version controls for that account and version.

2. Platform Role and No Legal Services by RecourseLink

RecourseLink is a software and source-intelligence platform. It is not a law firm, does not practice law, and does not provide legal advice, deadline calculation, case valuation, settlement valuation, win probability, representation, or attorney-client relationship formation.
RecourseLink does not recommend, rank, endorse, select, or guarantee any attorney, firm, claim, claimant, recovery, settlement, filing, or litigation result.
Attorney remains solely responsible for professional judgment, client intake, conflicts, competence, jurisdiction, advertising compliance, privilege/confidentiality decisions, fee agreements, client communications, and representation decisions.

3. Eligibility, Verification, and Account Authority

Attorney must provide truthful, current, source-reviewable information about identity, firm authority, practice areas, jurisdictions, bar status, and any requested official bar-source profile.
By accepting this Agreement, Attorney represents that Attorney is authorized to bind the law firm identified in the account (Firm) to the obligations stated here. An attorney who lacks that authority must not accept for the Firm or use a Firm account until an authorized signer completes the required acceptance.
Attorney may use protected workflows only through authorized accounts and only for the firm or organization the attorney is authorized to represent.
RecourseLink may require source-backed bar review, good-standing review, firm-domain review, disciplinary review, exact commercial entitlement review, conflict certification, jurisdiction matching, record-scope review, and access logging before protected workflows are available.

4. Covered People, Organizations, and Relationships

Covered Person means Attorney and every lawyer, partner, shareholder, member, associate, employee lawyer, of-counsel lawyer, contract lawyer, supervised lawyer, and other person whose relationship or work is treated as part of Firm for conflict or professional-responsibility purposes. It also includes co-counsel, affiliated counsel, and intake or legal-service personnel when Firm uses them for the matter or when their relationship creates a conflict-relevant duty.
Covered Organization means the company displayed in the organization-only conflict shell and any identified parent, subsidiary, affiliate, successor, predecessor, insurer, defense counsel, or other organization connected to the potential matter whose relationship must be considered under governing duties or RecourseLink's broader platform restriction.
Current Covered Relationship means representing, advising, working for, being employed or retained by, receiving compensation from, serving as counsel for, or owing a current conflict-relevant professional duty to a Covered Organization. Former-client, prospective-client, personal-interest, lawyer-mobility, imputation, and other duties remain separately governed by applicable rules and this Agreement's disclosure and stop requirements.

5. Professional Responsibility and Firm-Wide Adversity Restriction

Attorney must comply with all professional rules, court rules, bar rules, advertising rules, solicitation rules, privacy duties, confidentiality duties, supervision duties, and jurisdictional restrictions that apply to the attorney or firm.
Attorney must not use RecourseLink to hold out as admitted, authorized, certified, specialized, endorsed, or selected in any jurisdiction or matter unless the statement is truthful, source-backed, and legally permitted.
Regardless of whether governing law might otherwise permit representation through consent, waiver, or screening, neither Attorney nor Firm may use RecourseLink beyond the permitted organization-only conflict shell to accept, pursue, investigate, contact a consumer about, undertake, or continue a matter adverse to a Covered Organization while any Covered Person has a Current Covered Relationship with that organization.
The organization-only conflict shell may be used solely to identify the displayed organizations and perform the required blocking check. It does not authorize access to private user facts, evidence, identities, contact details, legal theories, cohort details, or other protected matter information.
Attorney must not use RecourseLink information for defense-side intelligence gathering, corporate risk monitoring, claim suppression, retaliation, witness identification, consumer identification, or any purpose that benefits a current, former, prospective, or related client whose interests may be adverse to RecourseLink users.
Before each matter-specific protected-access event, Attorney must complete the required firm-wide check and certification truthfully. If a covered relationship, conflict, material omission, new party, changed affiliation, or unresolved uncertainty is known, suspected, or discovered later, Attorney and Firm must immediately stop RecourseLink access, avoid further review or contact, preserve confidentiality, revoke the platform result, and decline the matter or withdraw only as governing duties, tribunal requirements, and permissions direct.
No RecourseLink representative, support response, administrative action, delay, silence, or failure to enforce can approve an exception, waive this restriction, or authorize access. No client consent, ethics screen, internal Firm policy, or claimed waiver overrides this independent RecourseLink platform restriction.
RecourseLink records a gated platform decision and does not determine or promise that Attorney, Firm, or a matter is conflict-free. Attorney and Firm remain responsible for a complete conflict analysis under all governing duties.
Nothing in this Agreement limits an attorney's duty to comply with law, court orders, bar obligations, regulator requests, client obligations, or mandatory professional duties. Attorney must protect RecourseLink confidential information to the maximum extent lawful when responding to such obligations.

6. Future Access Economics and No Fee Sharing

Free application, credential review, practice-interest intake, approved-scope setup, and Link availability notifications require no payment. RecourseLink offers qualifying Link group viewing through a separately accepted flat monthly subscription whose exact recurring price, scope, and terms are presented before Stripe checkout. Payment does not buy ranking, placement, recommendation, endorsement, a particular lead, private-data access, case exclusivity, client relationship rights, or success-based economics.
Attorney must not treat any RecourseLink charge as a referral fee, legal-fee split, contingency fee, success fee, recovery share, percentage of settlement, percentage of legal fees, or payment for a particular client or matter.
A current paid-access entitlement is necessary only where the separately offered product requires it and is never sufficient by itself for private review, consumer contact, evidence access, or any attorney-facing record access.

7. Confidentiality and Trade Secrets

Attorney must keep non-public RecourseLink information confidential, including software architecture, prompts, source weighting, matching logic, review playbooks, verification workflows, access gates, audit workflows, pricing strategy, roadmap, screenshots, demos, business methods, and security controls.
Attorney may use RecourseLink confidential information only for authorized evaluation or authorized platform use and may not disclose, publish, train models on, transfer, resell, sublicense, or use it for any outside purpose.
Trade-secret duties survive termination for as long as the information remains a trade secret. Ordinary confidential-information duties survive for the longer of three years or the maximum period allowed by applicable law.

8. Data Use, Consumer Privacy, and Evidence Restrictions

Attorney may access only the bounded record scope that RecourseLink makes available after all applicable gates pass. Unless separately and expressly enabled after consent and logging, no attorney may access PII, contact details, Evidence Vault files, private facts, documents, account numbers, medical details, or consumer evidence.
Attorney must not attempt to identify, deanonymize, enrich, cross-reference, reidentify, contact, solicit, export, scrape, broker, or route consumers outside consented RecourseLink workflows.
Attorney must use any available user, claim, cohort, source, conflict, or review information only for the authorized platform purpose and must comply with revocation, deletion, privacy, security, and access-scope limits.

9. Anti-Circumvention and Protected Relationships

Attorney must not bypass verification, commercial-offer, payment, entitlement, consent, conflict, jurisdiction, record-scope, revocation, privacy, or access-log controls.
Attorney must not use affiliates, co-counsel, contractors, intake vendors, marketing partners, data brokers, alternate accounts, screen sharing, credential sharing, parallel campaigns, or off-platform workflows to evade this Agreement.
This section is limited to misuse of RecourseLink confidential information, protected platform data, protected relationships, consent-gated records, and workflows learned through RecourseLink. It is not a general prohibition on lawful competition independent of RecourseLink confidential information.

10. No Scraping, Reverse Engineering, or Model Training

Attorney must not scrape, crawl, harvest, bulk export, automate, screen scrape, credential share, reverse engineer, decompile, prompt extract, reconstruct source weighting, reconstruct matching logic, or bypass rate limits or access controls.
Attorney must not train, fine tune, benchmark, or enrich any AI model, data product, intake product, lead product, or competing workflow using RecourseLink confidential information, platform outputs, source lists, consumer data, attorney data, prompts, workflows, or protected records.
Any written API or integration permission must be specific, revocable, purpose-limited, rate-limited, and subject to this Agreement.

11. No Warranties, No Reliance, and Platform Limits

The platform is provided as software and source-intelligence tooling. RecourseLink does not warrant that any source is complete, current, error-free, legally sufficient, admissible, or suitable for any particular matter.
Attorney must independently verify all sources, facts, deadlines, conflicts, jurisdiction, venue, client identity, legal merit, authority, and professional obligations before relying on any information.
RecourseLink may change, suspend, limit, discontinue, or withhold features, records, data, workflows, or access where needed for security, compliance, consent, privacy, source integrity, billing, audit, or platform integrity.

12. Suspension, Termination, and Audit

RecourseLink may suspend, limit, audit, revoke, or terminate access for suspected confidentiality breach, scraping, reverse engineering, circumvention, misuse, misleading claims, payment or entitlement failure, professional-responsibility concerns, security risk, privacy risk, unauthorized sharing, or violation of this Agreement.
Attorney must cooperate with reasonable platform-integrity audits, including review of account use, access logs, suspicious activity, credential sharing, export patterns, and suspected misuse.
Upon termination, attorney must stop using protected workflows and return or delete non-public RecourseLink materials, except where retention is required by law or professional obligation and remains subject to confidentiality.

13. Future Offers, Payment, Cancellation, and Entitlement Separation

There is no charge for creating an account, applying, completing credential review, recording practice interest, or receiving Link availability notifications. Viewing or responding to qualifying Link groups requires a separately accepted, current flat monthly Link subscription in addition to all verification, scope, security, consent, and privacy gates.
Any future paid access must follow a separately presented offer and checkout after real eligible access exists. Its cancellation, duration, refund or credit remedy, and account-management terms must be stated before purchase.
Failure to pay, chargeback, fraud signal, suspicious billing activity, cancellation, or entitlement expiry may suspend paid features without granting or expanding any private access.
Billing entitlement, attorney verification, conflict certification, consumer consent, jurisdiction match, record scope, and access logging are separate controls.

14. Intellectual Property and Feedback

RecourseLink and its licensors retain all rights in the platform, software, interfaces, prompts, workflows, source organization, source weighting, trade secrets, trademarks, documentation, and non-public materials.
No license is granted except the limited, revocable, non-transferable right to use the attorney portal for authorized platform purposes during an applicable evaluation or separately purchased access period.
Attorney feedback, suggestions, or ideas may be used by RecourseLink without obligation, provided RecourseLink does not use attorney confidential client information or privileged information.

15. Disclaimers, Liability Limits, and Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, RecourseLink disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted operation, and error-free operation.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, RecourseLink is not liable for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, reputational harm, indirect damages, special damages, consequential damages, exemplary damages, or attorney reliance on unverified information.
Attorney is responsible for claims, losses, penalties, discipline, costs, and expenses arising from attorney's misuse of the platform, violation of this Agreement, unauthorized contact, professional-rule violation, confidentiality breach, privacy violation, misleading advertising, fee-sharing violation, or use of RecourseLink data outside authorized workflows.

16. Legal Process, Notices, and Required Disclosures

If legally permitted, attorney must promptly notify RecourseLink of subpoenas, court orders, regulator requests, bar requests, security incidents, or third-party demands seeking RecourseLink confidential information or platform data.
Attorney must seek confidential treatment or protective handling where lawful and practical.
Operational notices may be delivered through the platform, account email, billing portal, or other contact information associated with the attorney account.

17. Electronic Records, Versioning, and Survival

Attorney agrees that electronic acceptance, checkbox acceptance, account-authenticated acceptance, clickwrap acceptance, and electronic records may evidence assent to this Agreement.
RecourseLink may record the accepted version, acceptance time, user account, agreement URL, agreement text hash, checkbox text, and non-sensitive acceptance metadata. RecourseLink must not store consumer PII, evidence, payment card data, or private facts in the attorney terms acceptance record.
Confidentiality, trade-secret, IP ownership, data-use restrictions, anti-circumvention, audit, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, legal-process, and dispute-related provisions survive termination.

18. Governing Law, Venue, Severability, and Updates

Any governing-law, venue, arbitration, class-waiver, or dispute-resolution term applies only if it is included in the version accepted by the attorney or otherwise required by applicable law. If a future version adds or changes a dispute-resolution term, RecourseLink may require renewed acceptance before continued protected portal/API use.
If a provision is unenforceable, it should be narrowed to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder should remain in effect.
RecourseLink may update the Agreement by publishing a new version and requiring attorney acceptance before continued protected portal/API use.