Site Disclaimers

1.  In light of  the fact that you’ve made it to our site means that you’ve already got some know-how about how the internet works (we’re not Amazon so we are a little harder to find).  Just as cruising around WebMD doesn’t create a doctor-patient relationship or surfing on Belief.net doesn’t absolve you from your sins, knocking about on our site doesn’t make you our client.  We do have a contact page, but no matter what you dare to write in that little message box, emailing us through that page doesn’t transform you into our client either.  To gain the privilege of wearing a scarlet “C,” you need a signed Retainer Agreement and, no, you can’t download any Google form for that.

2.  We’ve got verve and we’ve got moxie, but we don’t have a clue about tax law.  Frankly, the only taxes that we are concerned about are our own.  If, in some delusional state, we said that we’d look into a tax issue for you, you can know right now that our one-size-fits-all advice would be that you need to pay 140% of all your gross income to Uncle Sam (including all of your spouse’s too).  If you absolutely insist on paying a hefty retainer (well over that 140%) to get that little piece of advice in writing, maybe we can talk.

3.  On our blog, we write about all kinds of things: the law, appeals, writing, the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees.  We might go beyond the call of duty and hyperlink to another site so you can spend more of your time avoiding your work, your spouse, or your other responsibilities.  Just because we hyperlinked to some other site doesn’t mean that we like the source, like the site, or even like the sponsor.  We hyperlink because we can – it’s one of those fancy internet things to do.

4.  While our practice and research skills are more than up to snuff, you can’t seriously rely on anything that we have put on this site.  The law, unfortunately (or fortunately depending on the way you look at it) is like the moods of a teenaged-girl – changing on a dime and never knowing where the ride is taking you.  Our stuff might be current the day we write it, but it may have already been discarded as “so yesterday” by the time you pick it up and read it.  Check out the information and the sources yourself, it’ll do you good.

5.  We put the information on our site for general purposes only.  If you’ve a problem with that then you ought to hire a lawyer (not us, but somebody else).

Short Version

Peter Smythe, P.C. makes this site available for educational purposes as well as to give general information and understanding of the law, not specific legal advice. By using this site, you understand and agree that there is no attorney-client relationship formed between you and Peter Smythe, P.C. Our firm requires a signed retainer agreement before we can perform any services on behalf of a client. This site should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice from a licensed lawyer in your own state.

Disclosures

16 CFR 255 requires bloggers to disclose whether they have a “material connection” to a product or service that they endorse. Our firm practices law and does not engage in product placement or endorsements. Thus we have no “material connection” with any of the products or services that we write about on this site.

Ownership

Peter Smythe is the firm’s sole owner and attorney, and is responsible for all the content on this site. He is admitted to practice in Texas state courts and various federal courts. He is not board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.