Privacy Notice
Attorneys, like other professionals
who advise clients on personal financial matters, are required pursuant
to the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, Public Law No. 106-102, and rules
issued by the Federal Communications Commission regarding the privacy of
consumer financial information. The foregoing laws and federal regulations
apply to non-public personal information of individual clients who obtain
financial services such as tax preparation and planning services, real
estate settlement services, debt collection services and financial advisory
and management services, which are used primarily for personal, family
or household purposes. In the course of providing such services to our
clients, we collect non-public personal information that is provided to
us by clients and, with our clients' authorization, from third parties
such as accountants, financial advisors, insurance agents, real estate
agents, banking institutions, and other advisors. We do not disclose any
non-public personal information about our clients to anyone outside our
firm except as agreed to by our clients or as permitted by law.
Attorneys have been and continue
to be bound by stringent professional standards of confidentiality embodied
in state law and our own professional ethics standards. Therefore, we have
always protected our clients' right to privacy. In circumstances where
our professional standards governing privacy are stricter than the
new federal laws, we will continue to adhere to the more stringent professional
standards of client confidentiality and attorney-client privilege. The
purpose of this notice is to explain our privacy policy with regards to
personal information about our clients that we obtain and how we keep that
information secure.
We retain records relating to
professional services that we provide so that we are better able to assist
with our clients' professional needs and to comply with professional guidelines
or requirements by law. In order to guard non-public personal information,
we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply
with our professional standards.
We may amend this privacy notice
at any time, and we will notify our clients of such changes as required
by law.
