Disclaimer & Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the website of Thompson Law LLP. The following constitutes the Disclaimer and Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) of Thompson Law LLP (hereinafter “the Firm”). None of the information necessarily reflects the opinions of Thompson Law LLP, its attorneys, or its clients. By using the Firm’s website and or contacting or submitting information to our firm as a result of your use of this website, you expressly and unconditionally agree to be bound by this Policy.

Attorney Client Relationship

The materials on this website are for informational purposes only and are not legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstance. The reader should not consider this information as establishing an attorney-client relationship. Transmission of or receipt of the information in this site and/or communication with the Firm via email, web form submission, or text message is not intended to solicit or create, and does not create, an attorney-client relationship between the Firm and any person or entity. An attorney-client relationship is not created until you have retained the Firm, complete with documentation, confirming the retention and scope of the attorney-client relationship.

Readers should not act upon this information without seeking professional legal counsel. The Firm reserves the right to decline any representation. The Firm may be required to decline representation if it would create a conflict of interest with any of our other clients.

Fees

The Firm represents clients on a contingent fee basis. If there is ultimately a recovery, attorneys’ fees, court costs, litigation expenses, and healthcare-related expenses are paid from the client’s share of the recovery. If there is no recovery, the client will not pay any attorneys’ fees or be responsible for any court costs or litigation expenses; but the client is responsible for any unpaid healthcare-related expenses incurred. Attorneys’ fees are calculated based on the gross recovery, before expenses are deducted.

Transmission of Information and Communication

Persons contacting the Firm through the Internet or e-mail submission form provided through this website should not send confidential or sensitive information. The Firm does not currently collect personal identifying information through our website except for such information that your ISP automatically provides to our web server, such information that you send to us in an e-mail message, and such information that you submit to us in a web form or text message. The Firm will use personal identifying information for our own proper purposes, but we will not sell information to third-parties.

E-mail sent to us may not be secure. If you choose to send us an e-mail message, we may retain the content of the e-mail, your phone number, your e-mail address and our response, and it becomes the property of the Firm.  By contacting us through our website, whether by chat, form submission, phone call, and or e-mail, you expressly consent to receiving phone calls, mail, e-mail, and text messages from the Firm, including, but not limited to, our staff, employees, attorneys, and partners. By contacting us through our website, you consent to waive any claim you may have pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).  Your consent to receive phone calls, mail, texts, and e-mail messages from the Firm will continue indefinitely, unless and until you provide written notice identifying your name, phone number, and e-mail instructing the Firm not to contact you by one or all of these methods. Further, by contacting us and providing your information, you agree that we may attempt to contact you anytime, day or night, in order to respond to your inquiry; however, we will not message you between 10PM and 8AM Central Time, unless we are responding to a direct inquiry from you to us. As to text messages only, if you would like to opt out of receiving any text message from the firm, simply respond to the text message you received with the word “STOP,” and you will be removed from receiving future text messages from the firm. Currently, the firm does not send text messages for any purpose other than to correspond with firm clients who have signed a client agreement with the firm that expressly consents to receiving text messages from the firm, or in response to an inquiry from a potential client.  If you are a potential client who has submitted an inquiry to our firm, thereby agreeing to our privacy and text message policy, we will only reach out to see if we can assist with your inquiry, and we will not send you marketing texts in the future unrelated to your inquiry. 

Material on this website may be considered advertising under the rules of the Supreme Court of Texas. The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely on advertising.

You may reproduce materials available on this website for your own personal use and for non-commercial distribution. All copies must include our copyright notice.

Cookies

In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, our websites and applications may use cookies and similar technologies to store and help track information about you. Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to help remind us who you are and to help you navigate our sites during your visits. Cookies also can tell us where visitors go on a website and allow us to save preferences for you so you won’t have to re-enter them each time you visit. The use of cookies is relatively standard. Most Internet browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can use your browser to either notify you when you receive a cookie or to disable cookies.

If you wish to disable cookies from this site, you can do so using your browser. You should understand that some features of many sites may not function properly if you don’t accept cookies. For more information about using browsers to manage cookies, please see All About Cookies. You can also refuse to accept Flash cookies from this website using Adobe’s Flash management tools. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings.

By visiting this website, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Disclaimer & Privacy Policy.

To the extent that the professional responsibility rules of any jurisdiction require us to designate a principal office or an attorney responsible for this website, Thompson Law LLP designates Ryan L. Thompson and its office located at 3300 Oak Lawn Ave., 3rd Floor Dallas, Texas 75219.

Protecting Your Information

We may disclose your information to: (1) comply with applicable laws; (2) respond to governmental inquiries; (3) comply with valid legal process; (4) protect our rights or property; or (5) facilitate your request for a free case evaluation. By registering and using this Site, you acknowledge that the processing of your information for the purposes described above may involve the transfer of such information from within the United State of America (USA) to countries outside the USA whose data protection regulation may not be as stringent as that within the USA. We use Google Analytics remarketing codes to log when users view specific pages or take specific actions on a website. This allows us to provide targeted advertising in the future. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertising from us in the future you can opt out using the DoubleClick opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page: networkadvertising.org

NOTICE UNDER The Texas Health and Safety Code § 181.154 – HB 300

Our law firm gathers, stores and electronically transmits medical records (Protected Health Information), and our clients’ protected health information is subject to electronic disclosure.

Texas and Federal Law prohibits any electronic disclosure of a client’s protected health information to any person without a separate authorization from the client for each disclosure.  This authorization for disclosure may be made in written or electronic form or in oral form if it is documented in writing by our law firm.

The authorization for electronic disclosure of protected health information described above is not required if the disclosure is made: to another covered entity, as that term is defined by Section 181.001, or to a covered entity, as that term is defined by Section 602.001, Insurance Code, for the purpose of: treatment; payment; health care operations; performing an insurance or health maintenance organization function described by Section 602.053, Insurance Code; or as otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law. In other words, no further release is necessary for electronic disclosure to other health care providers, insurance companies, governmental agencies, or defense lawyers representing adverse parties.

Bar Membership

Although this website may be viewed from any of the 50 United States of America and territories, as well as any country, the Firm has attorneys licensed to practice in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Illinois. The Firm does not intend to practice law in any jurisdiction where the Firm is not licensed. The Firm’s principal office is located at 3300 Oak Lawn Avenue, Third Floor, Dallas, Texas 75219. Unless otherwise stated, our attorneys claiming certification in an area of law are not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Links

This website occasionally contains links to other web pages; however, the inclusion of such links does not constitute referrals or endorsements of the linked entities. Links to organizations and governmental agencies are provided as a convenience to our readers. The Firm does not endorse and is not responsible for any third-party content that may be accessed from its website and does not recommend or endorse the use of any third-party’s services. The links are to be accessed at the user’s own risk, and the authors of this website make no representations or warranties about the content of these links. The Firm will remove any source and/or link from this website at the request of the source identified or of the entity linked. This website is not sponsored by and/or associated with the sources identified and/or the entities linked.

Liability

The Firm may periodically change, remove, or add the material in this website without notice. This material may contain technical or typographical errors. The Firm does not guarantee its accuracy, completeness or suitability. The Firm assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the contents of this website. The Firm assumes no responsibility for computer viruses resulting from use of our website. Your use of this website is at your own risk. Under no circumstances shall The Firm or any other party involved in the creation, production or delivery of this website be liable to you or any other person for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind arising from your access to, or use of, this website. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FIRM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RELATING TO THIS MATERIAL, FOR ANY USE OF THIS WEBSITE, OR FOR ANY OTHER LINKED WEBSITE.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Firm and its members, managers, officers, employees, agents and the assigns of same, from and against any and all loss, costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses), claims, damages and liabilities related to or associated with your use of the web site and any violation of this Policy by you.

Arbitration

By accessing this website, you agree that any disputes, claims, or matters arising out of or related to your viewing or use of this website (the “Website Use”) shall be resolved through a binding, mandatory arbitration administered by one arbitrator, provided that any Party may file an action in any court of competent jurisdiction in the State courts of Dallas County, Texas to enforce this ADR provision.  The Arbitrator will be selected from among the arbitrators then based in JAMS’ Dallas office, and the Arbitrator will be selected pursuant to JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules & Procedures (the “Rules”). The Arbitrator will conduct the Arbitration pursuant to the Rules.  No party or Arbitrator may (a) consolidate any dispute(s) together with similar or identical disputes related to a party’s Website Use, or (b) arbitrate a dispute on a class-wide or representative basis. Judgment on the Arbitrator’s award (the “Award”) may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction in Dallas County, Texas. The Arbitration and all related proceedings, including, without limitation, discovery (e.g., depositions), and mediations will occur exclusively in Dallas, Texas; and, the Rules will govern the Arbitration. The Award will be binding and not subject to appeal, absent breach of this arbitration provision; and then, only to the extent of the breach. This agreement involves interstate commerce, and this ADR provision will be governed, first, by its terms, second, by the Federal Arbitration Act (Title 9 of the US Code), and, third, by Texas law. The Parties will pay their respective costs in connection with the Arbitration, and each side will pay an equal share of the costs payable to the Arbitrator.

No Legal Warranty

The content of this website contains general information and may not reflect current legal developments. Such content is designed only to give general information on the developments actually covered. It is not intended to be a comprehensive summary of recent developments in the law, treat exhaustively the subjects covered, provide legal advice or render a legal opinion. Since the law is constantly changing and since the law will vary based on different facts and circumstances, statements on this website regarding the status of a given law or legal issue may not be current or applicable to your particular situation. You should not take any action based on the information in this website.

Changes

The information provided on this website is subject to change without notice. You should not rely on this information or its applicability to any specific circumstances without speaking with an attorney. The information is not guaranteed to be correct, complete, or current. We make no warranty, expressed or implied, about the accuracy or reliability of the information at this website or at any other website to which this website is linked. Information provided at this website is consistent only with basic principles of Texas law and no other jurisdiction. Thompson Law LLP cannot promise that the information on this website is applicable to your circumstances, is correct, is complete, is up-to-date, that your access will be uninterrupted, or that material accessible from this website is free of viruses.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright ©2023 Thompson Law LLP. All rights reserved. All materials presented on this site are copyrighted and owned by Thompson Law LLP, unless in the public domain or attributed to another source. Any republication, retransmission, reproduction, downloading, storing or distribution of all or part of any materials found on this site is expressly prohibited.

Last Update

This Policy was last updated on December 1, 2023.