Free attorney application terms
RecourseLink Free Attorney Network Application Agreement.
Version: 2026-08-11-attorney-network-application-terms-v5. These terms cover the free application and practice-interest process only. They do not authorize a charge or protected access.
1. Free application
- There is no fee, subscription, lead charge, or card requirement to submit an attorney-network application or record practice interest.
- Submitting an application creates a private review record only. It does not create a public listing, recommendation, ranking, referral, client relationship, or right to contact a consumer.
2. Truthful information and review permission
- Applicant must provide truthful, current, source-reviewable identity, firm, jurisdiction, and practice information and promptly correct material changes.
- Applicant authorizes RecourseLink to review permitted official bar, court, firm, and professional sources. This permission does not authorize prohibited scraping or allow self-reported information to be treated as verified.
3. No verification or access by application
- Submitting an application places it in a private queue and authorizes a human reviewer to begin the selected jurisdiction's credential process using a permitted individual manual lookup, an applicant-supplied official certificate, or a direct response from the licensing or discipline authority.
- A credential finding is a point-in-time match to the reviewed official evidence. It is not identity proof and does not establish network admission, recommendation, specialty, capability, current future status, or any right to consumer information.
- RecourseLink records only minimized source provenance and limitations. It does not scrape, bulk-download, or retain a full official profile where source terms or data-minimization rules do not permit that use.
- Application, practice interest, account ownership, or payment can never replace required identity, credential, firm, conflict, consumer-consent, privacy, and access checks.
4. Firm-wide conflict-process obligations
- The applicant represents that they are authorized to submit this application for the named firm or sole practice and will promptly report any change to that authority, firm association, firm boundary, license, or account control.
- Before any protected organization shell may be reviewed, the firm must designate a currently verified lawyer as its currently authorized conflict officer. Application or staff status alone cannot confer that authority.
- For every completed preliminary result, the firm must use its current firm-wide conflict process and the records required by governing professional-conduct rules, law, engagement terms, and firm policy. A search may not be limited to one attorney, office, subscription seat, or practice group.
- The firm must identify the governing professional-conduct jurisdiction or jurisdictions and choice-of-law basis, then consider current-, former-, and prospective-client duties; direct adversity; material limitations from client, third-person, and personal interests; confidentiality; lateral and firm-wide imputation; screens; class, common, joint, and group representation; consentability; and every related entity or relationship required by governing rules, engagement terms, or firm policy.
- The firm must not provide RecourseLink with client names, client lists, matter names, match details, internal conflict reports, waivers, engagement terms, confidential information, or conflict-system records. A match, uncertainty, incomplete search, stale firm boundary, or inability to certify any required ground blocks access.
- A preliminary organization search is not a conflict-free determination, legal opinion, waiver, ethical screen, consent, engagement decision, or authorization to represent or contact a consumer. Consumer selection, identity disclosure, private facts, documents, or intake requires separate consumer consent and a new conflict check.
- If the firm later discovers a match, omission, uncertainty, authority problem, or changed fact, it must stop access and use RecourseLink's reporting and revocation process immediately. Payment, account status, or commercial terms cannot bypass these duties.
5. Future optional offers
- RecourseLink does not guarantee that a cohort, consumer matter, paid product, or access offer will ever become available.
- If real eligible access becomes available later, its price, scope, current terms, and limits must be shown separately before the attorney decides whether to buy. This application does not authorize a future charge or recurring subscription.
6. Privacy and communications
- Application and practice-interest records are private account records used for review, security, compliance, and product operations under the RecourseLink privacy policy.
- Account and application-status communications are operational. Marketing or optional email alerts require any separate consent that applies and may be withdrawn through the provided controls.
7. Prohibited conduct
- Applicant must not submit false information, impersonate another person or firm, bypass review controls, scrape the service, probe private records, share credentials, reverse engineer protected systems, or use RecourseLink to identify or solicit consumers without explicit authorization.
- RecourseLink may reject, close, suspend, or preserve an application when needed for accuracy, security, privacy, legal compliance, professional responsibility, or platform integrity.
8. Platform role and no promises
- RecourseLink is a technology platform, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice or form an attorney-client relationship through this application.
- RecourseLink does not promise admission, verification, cohort availability, leads, clients, responses, revenue, recovery, or any legal or business result.
9. Electronic acceptance and updates
- RecourseLink may retain the accepted version, time, account, agreement URL, text hash, checkbox text, and non-sensitive acceptance metadata as evidence of electronic acceptance.
- A materially updated application agreement requires a new version. Any future protected-access or paid-access agreement must be accepted separately and does not rewrite this application record.