The Terms and Conditions of Use set forth herein apply to the entire group of Websites owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by gpelawfirm.com (hereafter referred to as “GPE website”).

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE using GPE website. By using this Website or any other Website owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by GPE websites, you signify your assent to these terms of use.

IF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE IN FULL, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY TERMINATE YOUR USE OF THIS SITE.

These terms periodically change. Your continued use of GPE website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

GPE websites – Legal Information

The purpose of GPE website is to give the visitor links to other websites which could provide some information about laws and regulations; not to provide specific or general legal advice. The ideas, general principles and conclusions presented at this site may differ depending on local, state and federal laws and regulations and court cases. Because the law varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, is subject to varying interpretations, and is constantly changing, the user is urged to consult professional legal counsel in his or her Country, State or Province regarding the applicability of any points of law discussed on these websites to any specific or general problem. This website should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice.

Changes to site and these terms and conditions

This Site and these Terms and Conditions may be changed by GPE website with or without notice. Please review this link on a regular basis for changes. Continued use of this Site following any change constitutes your acceptance of the change.

GPE website Does Not Provide Legal Advice

GPE website has used reasonable efforts in collecting, preparing and providing quality information and material, but does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, adequacy or currency of the information contained in or linked to this website or any other GPE website. Users of information from this Website or any other GPE website or links do so at their own risk.

Any reference made by this Website or any other GPE website to any specific commercial product, process, or service (or provider of such product, process or service) by trade name, trademark, hyperlink, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply an endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by GPE website. Content on this and any other GPE website may be provided by third parties and users. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, users or others, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and do not necessarily state or reflect those of GPE website.

Ownership, License & Restrictions on Use

As between GPE website and you, all right, title and interest (including all copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights) in this Site belongs to GPE website, its licensors, or listees. In addition, the names, images, pictures, logos and icons identifying GPE websites’ products and services in many countries are proprietary marks of GPE website and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Except as expressly provided below, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license or right, by implication, estoppels or otherwise, under copyright or other intellectual property rights. Unless otherwise noted, all content, including images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips, and written and other materials that are part of this Website or any other GPE website are copyrights, trademarks, trade dress and/or other intellectual properties owned, controlled or licensed by GPE website.

No material from this Website or any other GPE website may be copied, reproduced, framed, hyperlinked, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, provided, however, you may download, where specifically permitted, one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of GPE websites’ copyright and other proprietary rights.

Users are hereby granted a nonexclusive, nontransferable, limited license to view and use information retrieved from this site provided solely for your personal, informational, non-commercial purposes, and provided you do not remove or obscure the copyright notice or other notices. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this Site, including but not limited to materials retrieved there from and the underlying code, may be reproduced, republished, copied, transmitted, or distributed in any form or by any means. In no event shall materials from this Site be stored in any information storage and retrieval system without prior written permission from GPE website.

Governmental Use

Use, duplication, or disclosure by or for the United States Government is subject to the restrictions set forth in DFARS 252.227-7013 (c)1)(ii) and FAR 52.227-19.

Export Control

The U.S. export control laws regulate the export and re-export of technology originating in the United States. This includes the electronic transmission of information and software to foreign countries and to certain foreign nationals. User agrees to abide by these laws and their regulations — including but not limited to the Export Administration Act and the Arms Export Control Act and not to transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any Content derived from GPE website to either a foreign national or a foreign destination in violation of such laws.

Automated Use

Use of any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our Web pages or the content contained herein is strictly forbidden.

Use by Children Under 13

GPE website cannot prohibit minors from visiting this site. GPE website must rely on parents, guardians and those responsible for supervising children under 13 to decide which materials are appropriate for such children to view and/or purchase.

Content, Listings, and Advertisements

Content

GPE website provides websites in which users supply the information in the directories of professionals and firms. GPE website does not refer lawyers, expert witnesses, recruiters, investigators, process servers, court reporters or others listed by GPE website to users. Because authentication on the Internet is difficult, GPE website cannot and does not confirm that any of our users are who they claim to be.

GPE website does not warrant the validity of the information, nor does it guarantee the quality of the work product. The determination of the need for legal services and the choice of a professional are extremely important decisions and should not be based solely upon advertisements or self-proclaimed expertise. Users should contact local bar associations and/or other applicable professional associations with regard to expert witnesses and other legal non-lawyer professionals.

GPE website does not guarantee review of the contents of the listings which are provided by our users or any links to GPE website; GPE website is not responsible for any material or information contained in the linked sites or provided by our users.

A description or indication of limitation of practice by a professional does not mean that any agency or board has certified such professional as a specialist or expert in any indicated field of law practice, nor does it mean that such professional is necessarily any more expert or competent than any other professional. All potential clients are urged to conduct their own independent investigation and evaluation of any professional being considered.

GPE website does not warrant the truth or accuracy of what any users have represented to GPE website or what they have requested to be listed and made public on the Site. Specifically, without in any way limiting any other provision of this Agreement, GPE website does not control, warrant, or guarantee the quality, safety or legality of the items advertised, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of any user to render professional services, or consumers of such services to purchase them. GPE website does not control, warrant, or guarantee that any User is who he or she claims to be or is not acting under false pretenses.

GPE website does not guaranty traffic to and from its listings or other form of advertisement nor does it guaranty its internet placement in the search engines for any keyword(s).

By using this website, you are agreeing that under no circumstances will GPE website or its affiliates, be responsible for (1) any information contained on or omitted from the site(s), (2) any person’s reliance on any such information, whether or not the information is correct, current or complete, (3) the consequences of any action you or any other person takes or fails to take, whether or not based on information provided by or as a result of the use of the Website and their affiliates also have no responsibility for (4) any person’s satisfaction with any expert witness, consultant, provider, lawyer, professional or law firm, whether relating to competence, diligence, or otherwise, (5) the results of any information, testimony or services provided, given by or representation from any expert, consultant, provider, lawyer, professional, or law firm, or (6) the failure or refusal of any expert witness, consultant, provider, lawyer, professional or law firm to respond to you.

Listings

If you choose to register a password protected firm, company or individual profile with GPE website or take advantage of such other services as may be offered only to users with a profile – you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself, your contact and office information and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. For our law firm directories, we do not accept PO Boxes, partial addresses without room or floor number, virtual offices, flex spaces, or addresses that are not law firm offices.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, if your company is not a law firm, if there are no lawyers’ bio admitted to a bar association or equivalent on your website, or GPE website has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information you provided is untrue or not following our terms and conditions; GPE website has the right to suspend or terminate your account without any refund and can refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). GPE website is under no obligation to list a law firm, company or service. GPE website reserves the right to list law firms, companies or services at its sole discretion.

Premium Listings include a 15-30 minute editorial service.

GPE website reserves the right to remove any law firm, expert witness, recruiter, investigator, process server, court reporter or others listed on the GPE website at its sole discretion. GPE website has no obligation to sell its product to any company/firm if GPE website believes that it is not in its best interest.

Free Basic Listings

GPE website reserve the right to remove any free listing without prior notice. If the content of a listing is found incorrect or misrepresenting or deceiving the public as to their status of the firm, or staff or has copied content from another law firm/company, GPE website will have their listing immediately deleted from our database and website without warning.

Editorial Guidelines for law firm/lawyer Basic Listings:

We will remove without notice any submitted Basic Listing that:

Removed Basic Listings: If your free Basic Listing has been removed for one or more of the above reasons, simply create and submit a new Basic Listing with updated information in compliance with our guidelines. When a listing is removed due to abuse of content or misrepresentation, the system doesn’t allow to reintroduce the firm in the directory for a period of 12 months. Please note that we do not exchange emails about deleted Basic Listings.

Law Firm/Lawyers Premium Listings 

Because we are committed to providing the best possible directory which contains valuable and accurate content for our visitors, we encourage you to comply completely with our Editorial Guidelines. We avoid any illicit practices that may damage the quality of GPE website’s content. This is why we offer complimentary secretarial services and edit the Premium Listings accordingly.

Our team will choose the precise key words, add the relevant content, verify the accuracy of all office addresses listed, and verify the selection of areas of practice. This data integrity check is done to ensure that you are represented correctly and the Premium Listing receives the best possible search performance.

You are welcome to update your listing at any time and at no cost. Should you do so, we encourage you to review and follow our editorial guidelines.

Editorial Guidelines for Premium Listings:

Law firms, solo practitioners and their representative should not use any feature that is deceptive, misleading, manipulative, or that is likely to confuse the visitor. Main examples of misrepresentation are as follows: use of trade names or location in place of an actual law firm name (Ex. Divorce Center or Best lawyers); selection of incorrect areas of practice and services, incorrect accreditation and representative clients; listing location(s) where they do not have the license to practice; and listing other law firms (partnerships) as your own office.

Please note that we are aware law offices do use d/b/a names. However, in the interest of presenting the most unambiguous and accurate information possible to our visitors and your potential clients, we will not allow extremely generic Law Firm names in our listings. Instead, we provide you with the option of using these types of names in the titles of your premium listings.

Example: Your law firm is registered and incorporated with the Texas Secretary of State as “The Law Office of John Doe, PLLC” and you do business as “Bankruptcy Lawyers of Amarillo, Texas”. In your Premium Listing, your Law Firm name should appear as “The Law Office of John Doe, PLLC“. Your listing title will be “Bankruptcy Lawyers of Amarillo, Texas“. In this instance, if you try to list your law firm name as “Bankruptcy Lawyers of Amarillo, Texas” your listing will not be approved.

If you believe that the actual name your law firm is registered under may be disallowed by our editorial team because of its generic nature, but is indeed the only legal name your law firm uses (and the only name presented on your website), please let us know beforehand. We will do our best to verify the information and, if it meets our guidelines, we will allow it.

Premium Listings must comply with the same following provisions imposed on Basic Listings and will be reviewed by our team for conformity before being posted. 

If we notice that the Premium Listing does not follow our Editorial Guidelines or uses one or more of the following practices we reserve the right to change the content without notice or remove it from our directories without compensation until the listing is corrected.

Incorrect name of law firm, use of area(s) of practice and or location as the law firm name

• Incorrect selection of practice area(s) – Practice areas selected in your listing must appear on your website ·
• Repetitive keywords in the description of your firm and services in an attempt to manipulate search engine results
• Invalid office location(s) – Additional offices require registration with local bar associations to be considered valid. Temporary offices, virtual offices, shared temporary office rentals are not eligible and will be removed without compensation or refund.
• Listing of a PO Box, partial addresses without room or floor number, virtual offices or flex spaces instead of a valid physical legal office address.
• Listing “Partner” law firms offices as your own offices. Should your partner law firm(s) wish to be listed on HG.org, they are required to purchase a Premium Listing or list their practice with a free Basic Listing.
• Listing multiple website URL’s for a single law firm in the additional information fields
• Not presenting a full bio of at least one lawyer in the listing and the firm’s website
• Listing incorrect or invalid bar association affiliation(s).