LegalNod Terms of Service

Effective 2026-11-17

Welcome to LegalNod. Please read these Terms of Service carefully before using the services offered by Ostrel Software LLC, a Washington limited liability company that operates LegalNod ("LegalNod", "we", "us"). These Terms of Service set out the terms of our relationship with you and of your use of the legalnod.com website (the "Site") and the applications, connections for AI assistants, features and content offered by LegalNod (together, the "Services").

BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT, BY TICKING THE BOX THAT SAYS YOU AGREE, OR BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO COMPLY WITH AND BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE (THE "TERMS"), WHICH INCORPORATE LEGALNOD'S PRIVACY POLICY. YOU ARE INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS AND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THEM. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO USE THE SERVICES. IF YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS ON BEHALF OF A LAW FIRM, A COMPANY OR ANOTHER LEGAL ENTITY, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BIND THAT ENTITY TO THESE TERMS, AND "YOU" AND "YOUR" REFER TO THAT ENTITY AND ITS SUCCESSORS AS WELL AS TO YOU.

Binding arbitration

ANY CLAIM, DISPUTE OR CONTROVERSY BETWEEN YOU AND LEGALNOD ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES SHALL BE RESOLVED BY FINAL AND BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 34 ("ARBITRATION AND OTHER TERMS") AND SECTION 35 ("CLASS ACTION AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER"), UNLESS YOU OPT OUT WITHIN 30 DAYS AS SECTION 34 ALLOWS. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN A CLIENT AND AN ATTORNEY, WHICH IS A MATTER FOR THOSE TWO. PLEASE READ SECTIONS 34 AND 35 CAREFULLY.

About the Services and our role

1. What LegalNod is

LegalNod is software. It provides a neutral technology platform through which an attorney or a company's legal team and the people they serve can reach each other, including from inside an AI assistant those people choose to connect. LegalNod carries requests, messages, documents, written directions and working notes between them, and keeps a record of what happened on each matter.

LegalNod is not a law firm. It does not practice law, give legal advice or represent anyone. No attorney-client relationship exists between you and LegalNod. Any attorney-client relationship is between an attorney and their client, on the terms those two agree, and LegalNod is not a party to it.

In these Terms:

• "Practice" means an attorney, a law firm or a company legal team that uses the Services to serve its clients, and each attorney acting in it.
• "Client" means a person a Practice has invited to reach it through the Services. It includes an employee or other person invited by a company's legal team.
• "Nod" means a request a Client sends to their Practice through the Services, and the matter that follows from it.
• "Under the Nod" is the status the Services show once an attorney has accepted a Nod and sent a written direction. It describes what has happened on LegalNod. It is not a statement by LegalNod that any communication or document is privileged or protected.
• "Matter Content" means what a Client writes or attaches for their Practice, the Practice's directions, questions, answers and advice, and the working notes, documents and work that a connected AI assistant saves to a matter.
• "AI Assistant" means an AI product run by a provider other than LegalNod that you connect to your LegalNod account.

2. About privilege and certain risks

The Services are structured with attorney-client privilege and work-product protection in mind. A Client's account of the facts is written to their attorney on LegalNod's own pages. An AI Assistant is given the matter only after an attorney has accepted it and issued a written direction. LegalNod holds Matter Content in confidence, as section 12 sets out. Each matter keeps a record of what happened and when.

All users affirm and agree that using AI in a legal matter carries a degree of legal risk, because the law on AI and privilege is new and still developing. Because of the differences between an AI assistant and the people who have traditionally assisted a lawyer, questions that are settled for a paralegal, an interpreter or an accountant may not be settled for an AI Assistant. There is little precedent on how courts will treat work done by AI at an attorney's direction. At least one United States federal court has held that a person's own conversations with a consumer AI product were neither privileged nor work product. No court has ruled on the arrangement the Services use. New decisions, statutes, court rules and bar opinions may change the analysis, and the answer may differ from one state or country to another.

You understand and agree that:

• Whether a particular communication or document is privileged or protected is decided by a court, on the facts and the law that applies. LegalNod makes no promise, representation or guarantee that anything sent, stored or produced through the Services is or will remain privileged, protected or confidential as against any third party.
• Anything a person discussed with an AI Assistant before an attorney accepted the matter, or discusses with it outside the matter, sits outside a Nod.
• The conversation between a person and their AI Assistant takes place on the AI provider's systems, under that provider's terms. LegalNod does not receive that conversation, store it or control it. Once a matter is Under the Nod, the attorney's direction and, where the attorney allows it, the Client's account are delivered into that conversation. From then on they are also held by the AI provider.
• Protection can be lost through what people do, for example by sharing a matter with someone outside the attorney-client relationship, by using an AI account that is shared or that trains on conversations, or by using the Services to further a crime or a fraud.
• Where a company's legal team is the Practice, the legal team represents the company. The privilege belongs to the company, which may choose to waive it, and what an employee sends is not confidential from the company.
• Work produced by an AI Assistant can be wrong, incomplete or invented. It is not legal advice, and it is to be reviewed by the attorney who directed it before anyone relies on it.

Clients are strongly encouraged to ask their attorney how privilege applies to their matter. Each attorney is responsible for deciding whether and how to use the Services in a given matter.

3. What LegalNod does not do

You understand and agree that, even though LegalNod carries a matter between a Client and a Practice, LegalNod is not involved in and does not take part in the legal services themselves. In particular:

• LegalNod does not practice law, give legal advice or legal opinions, or represent any person.
• LegalNod does not accept or decline a matter, check or clear a conflict of interest, decide the scope of an engagement, or decide whether an attorney is competent or licensed to take a matter in a given place. Those decisions are the attorney's.
• LegalNod does not write, suggest or change the substance of an attorney's direction, answer or advice. Where an attorney's own AI Assistant places a draft on LegalNod, the draft waits for the attorney to read, change and send it themselves.
• LegalNod does not set, suggest, collect, hold or share in any legal fee. No Client money passes through LegalNod. LegalNod is paid only by a Practice, for software, under section 20.
• LegalNod does not recommend, refer, rank or endorse any attorney. A Client reaches a Practice only through that Practice's own invitation. Within a Practice that has several attorneys, the Services may suggest which of that Practice's own attorneys a request goes to, using the practice areas and licenses the Practice has stated, and the Client and the Practice can change it.
• LegalNod does not supervise any attorney, and does not review Matter Content for accuracy, completeness or legal merit.
• LegalNod does not control any AI Assistant, what it produces, or whether it follows a direction or the rules sent with one.
• LegalNod does not enter into any engagement, fee agreement or other contract between a Practice and a Client.

By using the Services you agree that, to the fullest extent the law allows, any legal remedy you seek for the acts or omissions of an attorney, a Client, an AI provider or any other third party is limited to a claim against the person who caused you harm, and you agree not to seek that remedy from LegalNod.

4. LegalNod does not provide legal advice

LEGALNOD IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PERFORM LEGAL SERVICES. LEGALNOD'S ROLE IS LIMITED TO PROVIDING A TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM THROUGH WHICH A CLIENT AND THEIR OWN ATTORNEY OR LEGAL TEAM CAN REACH EACH OTHER DIRECTLY. LEGALNOD DOES NOT COUNSEL CLIENTS OR ATTORNEYS. NO ATTORNEY-CLIENT, AGENCY OR FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP IS INTENDED TO BE OR SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN CREATED BETWEEN LEGALNOD AND ANY CLIENT, ATTORNEY OR OTHER USER.

NOTHING ON THE SITE OR IN THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY STATUS, NOTICE, STANDARD WORDING, FILM OR DESCRIPTION OF A COURT DECISION, IS LEGAL ADVICE. ANYTHING AN AI ASSISTANT PRODUCES IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. LEGAL ADVICE COMES ONLY FROM AN ATTORNEY TO THAT ATTORNEY'S OWN CLIENT.

LEGALNOD IS NOT AN EMERGENCY SERVICE AND DOES NOT TRACK LEGAL DEADLINES. A NOD THAT AN ATTORNEY HAS NOT YET ACCEPTED HAS NOT BEEN REVIEWED BY ANY ATTORNEY. IF YOUR MATTER IS URGENT OR A DEADLINE IS NEAR, CONTACT YOUR ATTORNEY DIRECTLY.

5. License details and verification

You understand that LegalNod may ask an attorney for license details, including each state of licensure and bar number, may check those details against public bar records, and may ask for further information to confirm an attorney's identity and status. A person who administers a company legal team confirms that they are authorized by that company to do so.

Where the Services show a license as verified, it means LegalNod compared the stated license with a public record on the day of the check. It is not an endorsement of the attorney, and it is not a guarantee of good standing, competence, insurance or fitness for any matter.

Each attorney affirms and agrees to give accurate license details, to keep them current, and to tell LegalNod promptly of any suspension, disbarment, resignation or discipline that affects their right to practice.

6. LegalNod is not a law firm, a referral service or a file custodian

You acknowledge and agree that LegalNod is NOT:

• a law firm, an alternative business structure or any other provider of legal services;
• a lawyer referral service, a legal directory or a prepaid legal plan;
• a partner, employer, supervisor or co-counsel of any attorney;
• an insurer of any attorney's work, or a substitute for professional liability insurance; or
• a custodian of client files that takes the place of an attorney's own duty to keep them.

The Site and the films on it describe software. They are general information. They are not legal advice, and they are not an advertisement by LegalNod for the legal services of any attorney.

7. Standard wording, notices and films

LegalNod supplies standard wording as part of the Services, made available on an "as is" basis. It includes the notice that a company's legal team represents the company, the limited-scope and non-engagement notices, the rules sent to an AI Assistant with every direction, the prompts shown to an attorney, the questions shown at intake, and the help films.

LegalNod is not acting as legal counsel to any party, and providing standard wording is not the provision of legal advice by LegalNod to any person. Each Practice is responsible for deciding whether that wording meets its professional rules and its own engagement terms, and for adding to it through its own engagement terms and directions where needed.

8. Your duties as an attorney or legal team

LegalNod is not responsible for the conduct of any attorney or legal team, whether online or offline. If you use the Services as a Practice:

• You are solely responsible for your professional judgment and for meeting your professional duties, including competence (including with the technology you choose to use), confidentiality, conflicts of interest, supervision of the people and tools that assist you, communication with clients, fees, client files, advertising and solicitation, and the rules on the unauthorized practice of law in each place you practice.
• Decisions on a matter are yours. You decide whether to accept it, you run and clear your own conflict check, and you decide its scope. Where the Services show you the other party before the facts, that order is a convenience and the check remains yours.
• Your direction is your own work. You write it yourself, and you are responsible for reviewing the work that comes back before you advise your client.
• You decide, on each matter, whether your Client's AI Assistant may load the account your Client wrote to you.
• Your engagement with each Client is yours, including its scope, its terms and any informed consent your rules require for using AI or a service like LegalNod in a representation.
• Your fees are yours. You set them and you collect them. LegalNod takes no share of a legal fee.
• You are responsible for the people you invite: the Clients you invite, the colleagues you add to your team and the outside counsel you bring in. You confirm that you are entitled to contact each of them and that your invitations comply with the rules that apply to you.
• If you connect an AI Assistant of your own, you are responsible for choosing an account that keeps what you enter confidential and does not train on it, and for deciding that using it fits your professional duties.
• You are responsible for keeping your own client files for as long as your rules require, and for any duty to preserve material when a dispute is expected. You can export your matter records at any time.

Nothing in these Terms limits or interferes with an attorney's independent professional judgment, and LegalNod will not attempt to direct it.

9. Your duties as a client or employee

If you use the Services as a Client:

• When you send a Nod you are writing to the attorney or legal team named on the page, not to LegalNod.
• Give the facts of your matter on LegalNod's private page. Keep them out of your AI conversation until your attorney has accepted the matter and sent a direction.
• Read what your attorney sends back before you act on it. Work your AI Assistant produces is not advice until your attorney has reviewed it.
• You choose your AI Assistant and the account you use with it. Use an account that is yours alone and that is set to keep your conversations out of model training. You confirm this when you connect.
• Keep the matter between you and your attorney. Sharing it with other people can cost you protection you would otherwise have.
• Follow your attorney's instructions about keeping or deleting your AI conversation and your documents.
• If your company's legal team invited you, the legal team represents the company, not you personally. For a personal matter, consider your own attorney.
• Any fee you agree with your attorney is owed to your attorney, on the terms you agreed with them. LegalNod is not a party to it.

10. Practice information, invitations, engagement terms and fees

A Practice creates information on the Services that is shown to the people it invites, including its name, its attorneys, their practice areas and licenses, its invitation link and message, its engagement notice, its fee terms and the period for which a Nod stays open (together, "Practice Information").

You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for all Practice Information you create. Accordingly, you represent and warrant that your Practice Information (i) is accurate and is not misleading; (ii) complies with the professional rules and laws that apply to you, including those on advertising, solicitation, fees and written fee agreements; and (iii) will not violate or conflict with any agreement you have entered into with a third party.

Where the Services show a Client an engagement notice or a fee before the Client sends a Nod, they show what the Practice configured. Where the Services record that a Client agreed to it, that record is of an agreement between the Practice and the Client. LegalNod assumes no responsibility for a Practice's compliance with any law or professional rule.

LegalNod reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable Practice Information that LegalNod reasonably believes is false, unlawful, in violation of these Terms or harmful to the Services or to other people.

11. Connected AI assistants and sign-in accounts

By connecting an AI Assistant to your account, you authorize LegalNod to exchange with that AI Assistant, on your behalf, the information the connection is built to exchange. For a Client, before an attorney accepts, that is the topic of a request, its status and questions for you to answer. Once the matter is Under the Nod, it also includes the attorney's direction and answers and, where the attorney allows it, the account you wrote. In return LegalNod receives what the AI Assistant sends to your matter: requests, questions for your attorney, working notes, documents and work for review.

You authorize the AI Assistant to act in your LegalNod account within those limits, for example to open a request, save working notes and send work back for review. Accepting a fee quote or withdrawing a request through an AI Assistant takes your own explicit confirmation. Actions an AI Assistant takes through your connection are treated as yours. You can disconnect an AI Assistant at any time.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT AN AI ASSISTANT YOU CONNECT IS A THIRD-PARTY SERVICE THAT YOU CHOOSE AND CONTROL. IT IS NOT LEGALNOD'S SERVICE, EMPLOYEE OR AGENT, AND LEGALNOD IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT IT DOES, PRODUCES, STORES OR DISCLOSES. THE PART AN AI ASSISTANT PLAYS IN A REPRESENTATION IS A MATTER BETWEEN THE ATTORNEY AND THE CLIENT.

If you sign in with a Google or Microsoft account, you authorize LegalNod to receive your name and your verified email address from that provider, solely to sign you in or to start your account. LegalNod asks that provider for nothing else.

12. Confidentiality: what LegalNod promises

LegalNod handles Matter Content as a technology service provider to the Practice, in order to carry it between that Practice and its Client, and for no purpose of its own. Accordingly:

• LegalNod will hold Matter Content in confidence.
• LegalNod will use Matter Content only to provide, secure and support the Services for the Practice and the Client concerned, or as the law requires.
• LegalNod will not sell Matter Content, will not use it for advertising, and will not use it to train AI models. LegalNod will not permit its service providers to do any of those things.
• LegalNod's own people open Matter Content only where that is needed to answer a support request from the Practice or the Client concerned, to fix a fault, to protect the security of the Services, or to comply with the law, and they are bound by duties of confidentiality. The tools LegalNod's staff use from day to day show who is on a matter, when, and its status. They do not show the Client's account, the documents, the directions, the working notes or the advice.
• LegalNod stores Matter Content encrypted. LegalNod's systems must be able to open Matter Content in order to deliver it, so LegalNod does not claim that it is unable to read it.
• LegalNod uses service providers that handle Matter Content only under written duties of confidentiality.
• If LegalNod receives a subpoena, warrant, court order or other legal demand for Matter Content, LegalNod will, unless the law forbids it, promptly notify the Practice concerned so that the Practice and its Client can assert any privilege or protection that applies. LegalNod will ask the person making the demand to direct it to the Practice, and will disclose only what it is legally compelled to disclose. LegalNod will not hand over Matter Content voluntarily.
• If LegalNod learns that Matter Content has been accessed or disclosed without authorization, it will notify the Practice concerned without undue delay, so that the Practice can meet its own duties.

Nothing in these Terms, and no use of the Services, is intended to waive any attorney-client privilege, work-product protection or other protection. LegalNod claims no ownership of Matter Content. This section continues to apply after an account is closed.

Using the Services

13. Changes to these Terms

These Terms apply to all users of the Site and the Services.

When these Terms change, LegalNod shows the new version to each account holder with its effective date and asks them to accept it before they continue. LegalNod keeps the exact text of every version, and the version you accepted is always available to you through the link in the copy we email you.

If you use the Site without an account, your continued use of the Site after a change means that you accept the changed Terms.

Some features may be subject to additional terms shown to you when you use them. Those additional terms are incorporated into these Terms by this reference.

14. You must be 18 or older

The Services are intended solely for people who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. You represent and warrant that you are 18 or older. You may not use the Services where such use is prohibited.

15. Your registration and account security

When you use the Services you give LegalNod registration and account information, which LegalNod relies on to give you access. You sign in with a code sent to your email address, with a passkey, or through a Google or Microsoft account, and an AI Assistant reaches your account through a connection you approve (together, your "Credentials"). The following are your obligations:

• You are responsible for all activity on your account and for safeguarding your Credentials. Whoever controls your email account can sign in to LegalNod as you, so protect it.
• You will register your account for your own use. Each attorney in a Practice has their own account, and you will not share an account or let anyone else use yours.
• You will not assign or transfer your account to anyone without first getting LegalNod's written consent. Any person reaching your account with your Credentials will be treated as you, and you are responsible for what they do.
• You will not provide false or misleading information when you register.
• If LegalNod closes or disables your account, you may not create another without first getting LegalNod's written consent.
• You will keep your contact details and the other information LegalNod asks for accurate and up to date.
• If you believe someone else has had access to your account, you will tell us promptly at security@legalnod.com. If we suspect fraudulent or abusive activity, you agree to cooperate with our investigation and to take the preventive steps we prescribe.

LegalNod may rely on the instructions and consents given through your Credentials or your account. LegalNod is not liable for use of the Services by a person who obtained your Credentials from you or through your lack of care.

16. Third-party services

LegalNod uses third-party services to host the Services, deliver email and notifications, and sign people in. LegalNod may change those providers at its discretion, and the promises in section 12 apply to any provider that handles Matter Content.

AI Assistants and their providers, and the sign-in providers you choose, are third parties. When you use them you are subject to the terms they post, and LegalNod is not a party to those terms.

17. Changes to the Services, and what happens to your content

LegalNod is committed to delivering a positive experience, and reserves the right to add, change or withdraw features of the Site and the Services. If LegalNod withdraws a feature a Practice relies on, the Practice keeps the ability to export its matter records.

LegalNod does not rewrite or change the substance of what a Client, an attorney or an AI Assistant writes. The Services may lay it out, for example by presenting a Client's answers to intake questions as an account, by leaving names out where an attorney's own AI Assistant reads a matter, or by limiting the size and type of files.

LegalNod may refuse or remove content that contains harmful code or that breaks these Terms.

If LegalNod provides an updated version of the Services and you do not accept it, you may not enjoy the most recent features, and LegalNod shall not bear any responsibility or liability for that decision.

18. How LegalNod monitors the Services

Because LegalNod wants to keep the Services secure and to improve them, LegalNod monitors how the Services operate: sign-ins, errors, load, security signals and which features are used. On the Site, LegalNod measures visits as its Privacy Policy describes. By using the Services you agree to this.

LegalNod does not monitor or mine Matter Content for its own purposes.

You understand that LegalNod does not warrant or guarantee that (i) the Services, or any part of them, will be free from error or from unauthorized use as a result of such monitoring; (ii) any statement or fact presented through the Services by another person or by an AI Assistant will be accurate or authenticated; or (iii) LegalNod will take any action in the event of any non-compliance with these Terms.

19. Your use must comply with the laws and rules that apply to you

LegalNod may, in its sole discretion, refuse to offer the Services to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Services complies with all laws, regulations and professional rules that apply to you. The Services are operated from the United States and are intended for Practices licensed in the United States and the people they serve. Your right to use the Services is revoked where these Terms or the use of the Services is prohibited.

20. Plans and payment

Clients pay LegalNod nothing.

Plans for Practices, what each plan includes (such as a number of Nods and of attorney seats) and their prices are described on the Site and at the point of purchase. Paid plans are billed in advance for each billing period and continue from period to period until canceled. A Practice may cancel at any time, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the period already paid for. Charges for a period already begun are not refunded unless the law requires it. LegalNod may change its prices for a future period on at least 30 days' notice. Prices do not include taxes, which the Practice pays where they apply. Payments are handled by a third-party payment processor under its own terms.

Plan charges are charges for software. They are not a share of any legal fee, and they do not vary with what an attorney charges or collects.

21. Suspension and closing an account

You may stop using the Services and ask us to close your account at any time.

While LegalNod respects its users, you agree that LegalNod may suspend or close your account and prohibit you from using the Services, with or without notice, where LegalNod reasonably believes that you have breached these Terms, that an attorney's license has lapsed or been suspended, that your use puts other people or the Services at risk, that a paid plan has gone unpaid, or that the law requires it. LegalNod may also end the Services to any user for any other reason on 30 days' notice.

Where LegalNod closes a Practice's account, LegalNod will give that Practice at least 30 days in which to export its matter records, unless the law forbids it or doing so would put other people at risk. On a Practice's written request after its account is closed, LegalNod will delete that Practice's Matter Content from its active systems within a reasonable time, except for what the law requires LegalNod to keep and the records described in section 22.

Attorneys remain responsible for their own client files and should export their records before closing an account. Sections 2 to 12, 22 to 24 and 27 to 36 continue to apply after an account is closed.

22. Electronic communications, notices and records

Because LegalNod operates through the internet, you consent to transact with LegalNod electronically and to receive electronically all documents, communications, notices, contracts and agreements arising from or relating to your use of the Services (together, the "Electronic Materials"). The Electronic Materials include these Terms and the Privacy Policy, the record of your accepting them, and the engagement notices and fee terms a Practice shows you through the Services.

Electronic Materials are provided to you through the Services or by email to the address you gave us. You must keep that address current. You can contact us about Electronic Materials at legal@legalnod.com, or in writing at Ostrel Software LLC, 522 W Riverside Ave, Ste N, Spokane, WA 99201.

To access, read, print and store Electronic Materials you need access to the internet, an email account, a supported web browser and a device able to run them.

This consent remains in effect for as long as you have an account. You may withdraw it by asking us to close your account.

LegalNod keeps a record of each acceptance of these Terms (the time, the version and a fingerprint of each document, the sentence agreed to, and the internet address and browser used) and a tamper-evident record of what happened on each matter. You agree that these records may be used as evidence of what was agreed and of what took place. The record of a matter shows what LegalNod's systems sent and received. It does not show what an AI Assistant displayed to a person.

Who owns what and how you can use it

23. Your content

You keep all rights in what you put into the Services. You give LegalNod permission to host, store, transmit and display it only as needed to run the Services for you and the people you choose to work with. Between a Practice and its Client, rights in the client file are governed by their engagement and by the professional rules that apply.

You are solely responsible for everything sent to the Services from your account, including by an AI Assistant you connected, and you represent that you have the right to send it.

LegalNod may compile statistics about how the Services are used, such as counts, timings and which features are used. Those statistics contain no Matter Content and identify no person, and LegalNod uses them to run and improve the Services. If you send LegalNod suggestions about the Services, LegalNod may use them without obligation to you.

24. LegalNod's content and trademarks

The content, organization, graphics, design, films, software and other matters related to the Site and the Services, other than your content, are the property of LegalNod or its suppliers and are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights. You do not acquire ownership rights in any of it.

LegalNod, legalnod.com, Under the Nod and the LegalNod graphics, logos, page headers, button icons and service names are trademarks or trade dress of LegalNod. They may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not LegalNod's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion, or in any manner that disparages or discredits LegalNod. A Practice may tell its clients that it uses LegalNod and may use the invitation materials the Services provide for that purpose.

All other trademarks that appear on the Site or the Services are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to or sponsored by LegalNod.

25. Your license to use the Services

LegalNod grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive and nontransferable license to access and use the Services: for a Practice, in the course of its own professional practice, and for a Client, to communicate with their Practice.

LegalNod does not grant you the right to resell the Services or their contents, to make any derivative use of them, to download or copy account information for the benefit of a third party, or to use data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo or other proprietary information of LegalNod, or use any meta tags or other "hidden text" using LegalNod's name or trademarks, without LegalNod's express written consent. Any unauthorized use terminates the license granted by LegalNod.

You are granted a limited, revocable and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Site so long as the link does not portray LegalNod or its services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise offensive manner.

26. Conduct

We do our best to keep the Site and the Services safe and operational, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments:

• You will not use the Services to break the law, or to further a crime or a fraud.
• You will not falsely represent your identity or impersonate another person, and you will not present yourself as an attorney, or as licensed in a place, when you are not.
• You will not send material you have no right to send, or material that infringes or violates the rights of any third party.
• You will not attempt to reach another person's account, matter or data, or bypass any measure LegalNod uses to prevent or restrict access to the Services.
• You will not place text in a request, a document or a note that is designed to manipulate another person's AI Assistant or to make it act against that person's instructions.
• You will not interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services, or take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on LegalNod's infrastructure or that of its providers.
• You will not upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any software, hardware or telecommunications equipment.
• You will not use manual or automated software, devices or other processes to "crawl", "spider", harvest or scrape any part of the Site or the Services. An AI Assistant acting through the connection LegalNod provides is permitted.
• You will not decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any part of the Services, except to the limited extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction.
• You will not use the Services to build a competing product or a dataset.
• You will not copy, rent, lease, distribute or otherwise transfer any of the rights you receive under these Terms.
• You will not threaten, intimidate or harass another user.
• You will not represent yourself or your business as affiliated with LegalNod in any capacity other than as a user of the Services without LegalNod's prior written consent.

Warnings

27. You use the Site and the Services at your own risk

LegalNod has no obligation to review Matter Content or any other material sent through the Services, does not do so, and cannot therefore be responsible for it.

By operating the Services, LegalNod does not represent or imply that it endorses any attorney, any advice, any direction or any work produced by an AI Assistant, or that it believes any of them to be accurate, useful or non-harmful.

You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your devices from viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other harmful or destructive content.

Matter Content, and work produced by an AI Assistant in particular, may contain inaccuracies, mistakes and other errors. LegalNod disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from anyone's reliance on it.

28. LegalNod is not responsible for what happens outside the Services

LegalNod shows no third-party advertising inside the Services.

The Site and the Services may contain links to other websites ("Third Party Sites") or content that originates from third parties ("Third Party Content"), and an AI Assistant is operated entirely by its own provider. You understand and agree that LegalNod does not control and is not responsible for Third Party Sites, Third Party Content or any AI Assistant, including their availability, their content and their handling of information.

You acknowledge and agree that LegalNod shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of, or reliance on, any Third Party Site, Third Party Content or AI Assistant.

Legal conditions

29. LegalNod's liability is limited

LegalNod is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Site or the Services, including the professional acts or omissions of any attorney.

LegalNod assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction of, or unauthorized access to or alteration of, user communications, except to the extent caused by LegalNod's breach of section 12.

You understand that it is your duty to confirm and verify any information provided through the Services, and that you bear the sole risk of relying on it.

LegalNod is not responsible for any problem or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, cellular data provider or network, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, or email, on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or on the Services, including injury or damage to any person's computer or mobile device.

WE TRY TO KEEP THE SITE AND THE SERVICES UP, BUG-FREE AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SITE AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LEGALNOD DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY COMMUNICATION OR DOCUMENT IS OR WILL REMAIN PRIVILEGED OR PROTECTED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, LEGALNOD AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF PRIVILEGE, LITIGATION OR THE LIKE), WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US THROUGH THE SITE OR THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION OR GUARANTEE NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

LEGALNOD'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID LEGALNOD FOR THE SERVICES IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100) IF THAT IS GREATER. WHERE MORE THAN ONE ENTITY OR INDIVIDUAL RELATED TO LEGALNOD IS SUBJECT TO A CLAIM, THE RECOVERY OF THE CLAIMANT OR CLAIMANTS WILL BE LIMITED AS A GROUP AS PROVIDED BY THIS PARAGRAPH, AS IF ALL OF THEM WERE A SINGLE ENTITY.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTIES TO BE DISCLAIMED OR CERTAIN LIABILITY TO BE LIMITED, SO PARTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS ANY ATTORNEY'S RESPONSIBILITY TO THEIR OWN CLIENT, WHICH IS A MATTER BETWEEN THOSE TWO.

30. Copyright complaints

If you are a copyright owner or an agent of one and believe that any content on the Site or the Services infringes your copyright, you may submit a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) for further detail): (i) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (iii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it; (iv) your address, telephone number and email address; (v) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and (vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Our Copyright Agent can be reached at legal@legalnod.com. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this section, your DMCA notice may not be valid.

31. You agree to indemnify LegalNod

If you use the Services as a Practice, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless LegalNod, its contractors, licensors and affiliates and their respective members, managers, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including any and all losses, costs, liabilities and attorneys' fees, arising out of or in connection with: (i) the legal services you provide and your dealings with your Clients and with anyone else you invite; (ii) your Practice Information and your Matter Content; (iii) your violation of these Terms or of any representation or warranty in them; (iv) your violation of any law, regulation or professional rule; or (v) your violation, or alleged violation, of any right of a third party.

If you use the Services as a Client, you agree, to the extent the law allows, to indemnify LegalNod and the same persons from and against claims and expenses arising out of your own violation of these Terms or your unlawful or wrongful use of the Services.

32. Washington law applies to these Terms

Subject to the arbitration provisions in section 34, these Terms and any dispute between you and LegalNod arising out of the Site or the Services are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. For any dispute that is not subject to arbitration, you expressly agree and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in the State of Washington. Where the law of the place you live gives you protections as a consumer that cannot be waived by contract, you keep them.

33. Your general representation and warranty

You represent and warrant that you will use the Site and the Services in accordance with the Privacy Policy, with these Terms and with all applicable laws, regulations and professional rules, and so as not to infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

34. Arbitration and other terms

What is covered. This section covers any dispute between you and LegalNod arising under these Terms or relating to the Services. It does not cover a dispute between a Client and a Practice, which is governed by their own engagement and by any fee dispute program that applies to them, and it does not limit anyone's right to make a report or complaint to a bar authority or a regulator.

Talk to us first. Before starting an arbitration, you agree to write to us at legal@legalnod.com describing the dispute, and LegalNod agrees to do the same using the email address on your account. Each side will try in good faith for 30 days to resolve it.

Arbitration. You agree that, except for claims that qualify for small claims court and claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights or the confidentiality of Matter Content (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute shall be finally settled by arbitration administered by the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. ("JAMS") by an arbitrator appointed in accordance with its rules: the Streamlined Arbitration Rules for claims of $250,000 or less, and the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules otherwise. Where you are an individual using the Services as a Client, the JAMS Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards apply.

Where and how. The arbitration shall take place in the State of Washington in the English language, or by video, by telephone or on written submissions where the rules allow. An individual using the Services as a Client may choose to have any hearing held in the county where they live. The arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The arbitrator may award costs and attorneys' fees to the prevailing party to the extent the law that applies allows.

Privilege in a dispute. Nothing in this section requires any person to disclose material that is privileged or protected, and taking part in an arbitration with LegalNod is not intended to waive any privilege or protection.

Your right to opt out. You may opt out of arbitration by emailing legal@legalnod.com, within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, from the email address on your account, stating that you opt out. If you do, disputes between you and LegalNod are heard in the courts named in section 32, and section 35 still applies to the extent the law allows.

Severability. If any part of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties' original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect.

Waiver. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of these Terms or any breach of them, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach.

Assignment. LegalNod may assign its rights under these Terms in connection with a merger, a reorganization or a sale of the business that operates the Services. The successor is bound by section 12, and LegalNod will tell each Practice. You may not assign your rights without LegalNod's written consent.

General. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms shown to you for a feature, are the entire agreement between you and LegalNod about the Services. They will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns. They create no partnership, joint venture, employment or agency between LegalNod and any user, and they give no rights to anyone who is not a party to them. LegalNod is not liable for a failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control. The headings of these Terms are inserted for convenience only and do not affect their construction.

35. Class action and jury trial waiver

WITH RESPECT TO ALL PERSONS AND ENTITIES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY HAVE USED THE SERVICES FOR PERSONAL, COMMERCIAL OR OTHER PURPOSES, ALL CLAIMS AGAINST LEGALNOD MUST BE BROUGHT IN THE PARTIES' INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION, COLLECTIVE ACTION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THIS WAIVER APPLIES TO CLASS ARBITRATION, AND, UNLESS WE AGREE OTHERWISE, THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS. YOU AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU AND LEGALNOD ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, COLLECTIVE ACTION, PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND. IF THIS WAIVER IS HELD UNENFORCEABLE FOR A PARTICULAR CLAIM, THAT CLAIM PROCEEDS IN COURT AND NOT IN ARBITRATION.

36. Contact

Ostrel Software LLC, 522 W Riverside Ave, Ste N, Spokane, WA 99201. Questions about these Terms, legal notices and copyright complaints: legal@legalnod.com. Privacy questions and requests: privacy@legalnod.com. Security reports: security@legalnod.com.