Attorney Terms

1. License & Compliance

Attorneys must ensure that the bar credentials registered on the platform, including state, license number, and legal name, are accurate and current. LAW119 may associate those credentials with an applicable official public bar source. Attorneys may not provide services in jurisdictions or practice areas where they are not licensed or otherwise authorized. If your license status materially changes, you must promptly notify the platform or update your profile.

1A. Neutral Visibility and Lead-Generation Rules

LAW119 is a neutral, self-directed platform and does not recommend, rank, certify, or select an attorney for a client. Matter visibility and notifications use disclosed mechanical criteria such as practice area, New York jurisdiction or geography, language coverage, registration-check status, timing, and workflow status. Responses use a neutral chronological default. A client's optional personal sorting does not change placement for others. Subscription price, advertising purchases, potential legal fees, and whether a prior engagement resulted do not improve placement or response priority.

The responding attorney's professional identity, firm information when supplied, registration-check date, and available official-record link may be shown to the client before selection. The client's identity and direct contact details remain protected until mutual consultation confirmation.

A client must expressly consent before LAW119 shares a privacy-protected matter summary with multiple eligible attorneys and must separately choose an attorney before identity and direct contact details are released after both sides confirm a consultation. Attorneys may use shared information only to evaluate and respond to that matter through the permitted workflow. They may not treat access as an endorsement, purchase a specific client introduction, or use the information for unrelated marketing or solicitation.

Attorney profile information, descriptive labels, response timing, license-support checks, and any reference to past results are informational only. They are not a LAW119 endorsement, specialist certification, prediction, or guarantee. Attorneys must ensure that their own profile, proposal, and communications comply with all professional advertising and solicitation rules that apply to them.

2. Conflict of Interest

Attorneys are solely responsible for completing any conflict-of-interest check required by their own professional obligations before accepting representation. A written response or pre-engagement message does not by itself create a formal representation relationship. Any attorney-client relationship arises directly between the attorney and client under applicable law and the attorney's own intake and engagement process, which may include an engagement letter or other direct agreement.

Under LAW119's workflow, attorneys should respond first in writing through the platform. Attorneys may continue into LAW119 chat after the client affirmatively opens direct contact through the platform, but may not push the client into phone, video, text, email, or other live contact before the platform workflow allows it or the client expressly requests it.

After selection, the client may separately authorize an encrypted disclosure of the client's legal name, known adverse parties, and optional related people or organizations solely for your conflict check. Access is limited to the selected attorney and the information is not placed in chat. You may not certify completion or confirm the consultation until that disclosure is available and you have actually completed the conflict check required by your professional obligations. Do not copy the identifiers into chat or use them for unrelated purposes.

LAW119 consultation scheduling is a coordination tool only. A proposed time is confirmed only when the other participant selects it. Scheduling or attending does not create representation, satisfy a conflicts review, or constitute the attorney's agreement to undertake the matter. After both sides separately confirm consultation, the attorney controls and supplies any Zoom, Webex, Teams, phone, or office meeting details.

3. Language Access and Translation

If you respond to or communicate with a client whose preferred language you do not list on your LAW119 profile, you remain responsible for ensuring competent communication and for clearly informing the client when qualified interpretation or translation support may be required.

Only when a client expressly opts in may LAW119 provide a clearly labeled machine-translated preview of the privacy-protected matter summary. LAW119 does not automatically translate attorney proposals or private chat messages. Any preview is not an authoritative legal translation and does not replace your duty to communicate accurately.

4. Independent Practice

Attorneys provide services on the platform as independent practitioners. They are not employees, agents, or partners of LAW119. Attorneys independently bear full professional responsibility for all legal opinions, representation, and document work. The platform does not guarantee, endorse, or assume joint liability for attorney conduct.

5. Professional Profile Sources and Subscription Renewal

Attorneys should keep their required registration details accurate. LAW119 may select or associate an official public bar-record source for verification. Optional law firm, business-address, website, LinkedIn, language, and bio information may be added or updated later. These sources help confirm identity and registration status, but attorneys remain independently responsible for their own professional obligations and profile accuracy.

LAW119 does not publish attorney ratings, client reviews, or rankings and does not recommend one attorney over another.

LAW119 does not automatically charge an attorney when the trial ends. To continue paid access, the attorney must affirmatively choose a monthly or annual plan and provide a payment method through checkout. The selected plan automatically renews until canceled. The attorney may cancel through the billing portal before the next renewal; access ordinarily continues through the current paid period. Except where required by law or expressly stated otherwise, charges are not prorated or refunded. Checkout displays the current price, billing frequency, and applicable taxes before purchase. LAW119 may retry failed payments and restrict paid features after notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure. Material price changes apply only to a future renewal after advance notice.

6. Client Funds & Billing

Attorney-client legal fees, retainers, trust funds, settlement funds, and refunds are always handled directly between the attorney and client outside LAW119. LAW119 does not and will not provide client-attorney payments, escrow, trust-account custody, milestone billing, attorney payouts, or client refunds through the platform. Attorneys remain solely responsible for all billing, safekeeping, trust-account, and recordkeeping duties that apply to their practice.

Attorneys who register before LAW119 first activates live client posting receive founding-attorney prelaunch access at no charge for as long as client posting remains closed. That prelaunch period does not reduce the separate 90-day free trial. The 90-day trial for all such founding attorneys begins together when LAW119 first activates live client posting. Attorneys who register after that first activation receive a 90-day trial beginning at registration. No credit card is required during prelaunch access or at signup. An attorney who chooses to continue after the applicable trial may do so at the current LAW119 platform-access price of $39 per month or $379 per year. LAW119 does not charge commissions, success fees, or per-matter fees tied to client selection, engagement, case outcome, or attorney payment.

6A. Attorney-Supplied Engagement Agreements

The attorney must supply and control every engagement agreement and represents that the attorney has all rights and authority needed to upload, route, and use it. The attorney—not LAW119—is responsible for conflicts, client identity, scope, fee terms, disclosures, execution requirements, enforceability, delivery of copies, and professional recordkeeping.

LAW119 does not draft, review, approve, recommend, or electronically sign the agreement or its terms. The attorney and client must use their own signing method outside LAW119. The attorney may upload a signed copy and ask the client to acknowledge receipt.

The attorney is responsible for choosing and administering any outside signing method, retaining complete records, and delivering required copies. Any upload or receipt status in LAW119 is administrative only: it does not validate legal effect, make LAW119 a party, or move legal fees or client funds through LAW119.

7. Prohibited Conduct

8. Updates to These Terms

LAW119 may update these Attorney Terms. Material changes will be identified by a new version date and communicated at least 14 days in advance by email or a prominent platform notice. If a change materially affects attorney rights, payment obligations, neutrality rules, or the attorney-platform relationship, LAW119 will require renewed affirmative acceptance before the attorney continues into the affected workflow. An attorney who does not agree may cancel any subscription and deactivate the account; cancellation remains subject to the billing terms above.