Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you ("you", "your", "User") and Attorney Toolkit ("we", "us", "our") that governs your access to and use of our website, web application, browser extension, APIs, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). Please read them carefully. By creating an account, clicking "I agree," installing our browser extension, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By accessing or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are using the Service on behalf of a law firm or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and "you" refers to both you personally and that entity. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility and account requirements

To use the Service, you must:

• Be a current, in-good-standing member of an association whose archive we support — currently the California Applicants' Attorneys Association ("CAAA"), the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles ("CAALA"), or any other association we add over time;
• Be at least 18 years of age and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract;
• Be a licensed attorney and in good standing with the State Bar of California or your State where you are licensed;
• Provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and keep it updated.

We may, at our discretion and at any time, verify your membership status with the relevant association and suspend or terminate accounts that do not meet these eligibility requirements. We may also limit features (for example, our 3-doctor compare feature) to specific subscription tiers.

3. Description of the Service

Attorney Toolkit provides:

• Search of professional listserv archives and similar discussion-group sources that you are authorized to access;
• AI-assisted relevance filtering and synthesis of the messages returned by your search;
• Specialized evaluations for common research targets — for example doctors, judges, claims adjusters, defense attorneys, and insurance carriers;
• Side-by-side comparison of multiple subjects (e.g., three doctors at once) on eligible subscription tiers;
• A persistent search history, account management, and related conveniences.

We may add, change, or remove features at any time. We will provide reasonable notice of material changes that materially reduce the core functionality of your paid subscription.

4. The Service is information, not legal advice

The Service helps you find and summarize information that already exists in archives you are authorized to read. It does not, and cannot:

• Provide legal advice for any specific situation;
• Predict the outcome of any case, proceeding, or settlement;
• Recommend any particular doctor, judge, expert, attorney, insurer, or course of action for your client;
• Replace your own independent professional judgment, research, or due diligence.

Any score, label ("good"/"bad"), recommendation, comparison, or synthesis text returned by the Service is a heuristic generated from third-party message content using AI. It is information for you to evaluate, not a conclusion you can rely on. You agree that your use of any output of the Service is at your own professional risk.

Nothing in the Service creates an attorney-client, fiduciary, or other professional relationship between you and Attorney Toolkit.

5. Accuracy of information and AI output

The underlying messages in the listservs are written by third parties. Attorney Toolkit does not author them, does not verify them, and does not warrant their accuracy. The AI features of the Service can — and sometimes will — produce output that is incomplete, misleading, oversimplified, out of date, or factually wrong (commonly described as "hallucination"). Always:

• Click through to the original source messages we link in your results and confirm them yourself;
• Verify names, dates, dollar amounts, and statements before using them in your practice;
• Apply your own judgment about whether the information is relevant to your matter.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any decision you make based on AI-generated output or summarized message content.

6. Your account

• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.
• Do not share your login with anyone. Access credentials are issued to a specific person and may not be shared, transferred, rotated, or used by anyone else. Each person who accesses the Service needs their own account.
• Notify us immediately at support@attorneytoolkit.com if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or any other security incident.
• You may not sell, lease, transfer, or sublicense your account or your access to the Service.

7. Listserv access and your credentials

The Service may search archives behind login walls (for example, the CAAA or CAALA listserv archives). To do that, our optional browser extension captures the session cookies your browser sets when you log in to those archives. You authorize us to use those session cookies and related session data to fetch messages, run searches you initiate, maintain and troubleshoot the Service, investigate misuse, enforce these Terms, comply with law, and protect our rights and users.

By authorizing the extension and using the Service, you represent and warrant that:

• You have a valid, current right to access each archive you ask us to search;
• You comply with the terms of use of the underlying listserv or platform;
• You are not using the Service to bypass any prohibition on automated access that the relevant listserv has imposed on you specifically;
• You have authority to grant us the access described above.

You may revoke access at any time by signing out of the relevant listserv (which invalidates the captured session) or by deleting the stored cookies in your account settings.

8. Confidential and privileged information — do not paste it

9. Acceptable use

You agree that you will not:

• Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law, regulation, or rule of professional conduct;
• Use the Service to harass, defame, threaten, or harm any person;
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other users' accounts, or any underlying system or data;
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach any security or authentication measure (other than authorized security research with prior written permission);
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service;
• Use the Service to build a competing product, train a machine-learning model, or otherwise extract bulk data;
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service, including by sending excessive automated requests, deliberately bypassing rate limits, or running denial-of-service attacks;
• Share, resell, sublicense, or rent your account or the Service to any third party;
• Use the Service in a manner that exceeds the search limits or feature scope of your subscription tier.

10. Subscriptions, billing, and refunds

Plans and pricing

The Service is offered on monthly subscription plans (currently Base, Medium, High, and custom Enterprise plans). Each plan has a monthly search allowance and feature set described on the pricing page. We may change plans, prices, and features from time to time; if we materially change the plan you are on, we will give you notice in advance.

Free trial

We may offer new accounts a free trial period (currently up to 10 days). If you do not cancel before the trial ends, your card will be charged for the first paid period. Trial eligibility may be restricted to one trial per person or organization.

Auto-renewal

Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle for the same plan at the then-current price, until canceled. You authorize us (through our payment processor) to charge your saved payment method for each renewal.

Search allowances and overages

Monthly search allowances reset on the first day of each billing cycle. Unused searches do not roll over. If you exceed your allowance, you may upgrade to a higher tier or wait until the next cycle. We may decline to process searches that would exceed your allowance.

Refunds

Except where required by law, subscription fees are non-refundable. We may, at our discretion, offer pro-rated refunds in cases of extended service outage or other exceptional circumstances. To request a refund, contact support@attorneytoolkit.com.

Taxes

Prices listed exclude taxes. Where applicable, we (or our payment processor) will collect sales tax, VAT, or other transactional taxes in addition to the listed price.

11. Cancellation

You may cancel your subscription at any time through the billing portal accessible from your account page or by emailing support@attorneytoolkit.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing cycle; you will keep access through that date. We may also suspend or cancel your subscription for the reasons described in section 19.

12. Payment processing (Stripe)

Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. By providing your payment information, you authorize Stripe and us to charge the payment method you provide for the fees due. Your payment information is collected and stored by Stripe, subject to Stripe's terms and privacy policy. We may receive and store limited billing metadata, transaction records, and subscription information from Stripe.

13. Intellectual property & license

All right, title, and interest in and to the Service — including software, design, look-and-feel, AI prompts, models we have built, and our trademarks — is and remains owned by Attorney Toolkit and our licensors. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your internal professional use only.

Listserv messages accessed or displayed through Attorney Toolkit remain the property of their respective authors and/or the operators of the applicable listserv. Attorney Toolkit does not claim ownership of any such content.

Users are solely responsible for ensuring that their use of listserv content complies with the terms, conditions, and membership rules of the applicable listserv. Users may not redistribute, publish, reproduce, or commercially exploit listserv content in violation of those terms.

Attorney Toolkit is not intended to republish, resell, or independently distribute listserv content. The platform is intended solely as a research tool to help users efficiently search and review materials they are already authorized to access through their own listserv membership.

14. User-submitted content

"User Content" means any content you submit to the Service — for example, search queries, names, free-form prompts, feedback messages, contact-form submissions, and bug reports. You retain ownership of your User Content. By submitting User Content, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use it for the purpose of operating, securing, improving, and supporting the Service.

"Output" means AI-generated responses, summaries, comparisons, citations, and other results returned by the Service in response to your User Content or searches. As between you and Attorney Toolkit, you may use Output for your internal professional purposes, subject to these Terms, the rights of the underlying listserv authors and operators, and your professional obligations. Because AI systems can generate similar or identical outputs for different users, you acknowledge that Output generated for other users is not your content.

You grant us and our service providers the rights and licenses needed to host, copy, transmit, process, display, analyze, transform, create derivative technical data from, and otherwise use User Content, retrieved source material, Output, feedback, usage data, logs, and related metadata to provide, maintain, secure, support, enforce, defend, analyze, develop, and improve the Service, and as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy or permitted by law. We may also use aggregated or de-identified information for analytics, security, product development, benchmarking, business, or other lawful purposes.

You represent that your User Content does not infringe any third party's rights and does not violate any applicable law or professional rule. You agree not to submit User Content that contains confidential, privileged, or restricted information as described in section 8.

15. Third-party services and content

The Service relies on third-party services (for example, hosting, payment processing, AI inference, email delivery). It also retrieves and displays content authored by third parties (the listserv messages). We are not responsible for third-party services or content, and your interaction with them is governed by their own terms. Links from the Service to third-party sites are provided for convenience only and do not imply endorsement.

We may offer preview, beta, experimental, or early-access features from time to time. These features are optional, may change or be discontinued, and may contain errors or produce less reliable results than generally available features. The same confidentiality, privacy, and security commitments in these Terms and our Privacy Policy apply to beta features unless we tell you otherwise before you use them.

16. Disclaimer of warranties

The service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Attorney Toolkit disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing, usage, or trade practice.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that defects will be corrected; or that any information, output, or content (including AI-generated content) will be accurate, current, complete, or suitable for your purposes.

17. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Attorney Toolkit and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including but not limited to lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, loss of goodwill, business interruption, or cost of substitute services, arising out of or related to the service or these terms, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other legal theory, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability arising out of or related to the service or these terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid to Attorney Toolkit for the service in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of liability for certain types of damages. To the extent applicable law in your jurisdiction prohibits the disclaimers and limitations above, they apply only to the maximum extent permitted by that law.

18. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Attorney Toolkit and our officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, and licensors from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your breach of these Terms or applicable law; (c) your violation of any third party's rights, including the terms of use of any listserv or platform; (d) any User Content you submit; or (e) any decision you make based on output of the Service.

19. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe that you have violated these Terms, that your account poses a security risk, that the relevant association has revoked your membership, or that your conduct may expose us or another user to legal liability. We may also terminate or modify the Service in whole or in part at any time with or without notice.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service immediately ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (for example, sections 4, 5, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, and 22) will survive.

20. Governing law & dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to the arbitration provisions below, the state and federal courts located in California will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute that is not subject to arbitration, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Informal resolution first

Before filing any claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting us at support@attorneytoolkit.com. We will try to resolve the dispute by talking with you within thirty (30) days.

Binding arbitration

If we cannot resolve the dispute informally, you and Attorney Toolkit agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved through binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its applicable rules, except that you may bring qualifying claims in small-claims court. The arbitration will be conducted in English in California, or by video conference if both parties agree. Judgment on the arbitrator's award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver

You and Attorney Toolkit agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this page. If the changes are material, we will provide additional notice — for example, by emailing you or displaying a notice in the application before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.

22. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement: these Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
• Severability: if any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force.
• No waiver: our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision.
• Assignment: you may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure: we are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, infrastructure outages, governmental actions, acts of third parties, CAAA, CAALA, or Trial Smith.
• Export and sanctions compliance: you may not use the Service in violation of U.S. export controls, sanctions laws, or other applicable trade restrictions, and you represent that you are not barred from using the Service under those laws.
• Notices: we may give notice to you by email to the address associated with your account or by posting in the Service.
• Headings: the headings in these Terms are for convenience only and do not affect their interpretation.

23. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us: