Last Updated March 21, 2024

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As used anywhere in, on, or in connection with this website, the term “Upwire Counsel” refers to Upwire Counsel, P.C., a California professional corporation, unless reasonable usage and the surrounding text would indicate otherwise.

Any and all use of this website, including, but not limited to, review, downloading, and or otherwise interacting with any and all information and/or materials presented on, in, or in connection with this website is subject to all of the terms and conditions presented herein.  By using this website, you acknowledge reading all of those terms and conditions, and you expressly agree to them, including among other things that no attorney-client relationship is intended, expressed, implied, and/or created by use of this website.  Your use of this website constitutes your agreement to such terms and conditions.  Please read these terms carefully and keep a copy of them for your reference.

All materials and information on this website have been prepared for general information purposes only to permit you to learn more about Upwire Counsel, the experience of its attorney, and the services provided.  None of the information or materials presented in, on, or in connection with this website is alone, or are collectively, legal advice.  None of those information or materials should be acted on as if they were legal advice.  Moreover, any and all information or materials presented in, on, or in connection with this website may not be current and are subject to change without notice.

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Moreover, the mere transmission of an e-mail message to an attorney through this website is subject to all of the foregoing disclaimers:  Sending an email through this website does not create an attorney-client relationship.  No transmission or exchange of materials or information via this website will create an attorney-client relationship.  Without an attorney-client relationship in the matter, it cannot be assured that your communications will be privileged or that your communications will be treated as privileged, unless it is separately agreed in a specific, written agreement which is executed by Upwire Counsel.  Please do not send any confidential or sensitive materials or information until you speak with an attorney directly and obtain prior written authorization to send such materials or information.

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You may download and view material on this website for your personal, temporary, non-commercial viewing only.  No part of these materials may otherwise be reproduced, copied, republished, distributed, stored, uploaded, posted, and/or transmitted in any form or by any means whatsoever (including but not limited to electronic or mechanical means) whether now known or invented in the future, without the written consent of Upwire Counsel in a document separate from this website.

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Certain content on this website may be wholly or partially generated by AI.  Any such AI generated content has been thoroughly reviewed by Upwire Counsel prior to posting or other usage.  No copyright in such materials is claimed or implied, except as may be permitted by applicable law.

Attorney License Limitations

Unless otherwise expressly specified, the attorney listed in this website is not certified by, or certified as a specialist or expert by, any particular professional or governmental agency or authority.  Descriptions of Upwire Counsel’s practice areas, or of expertise, practice concentrations or specializations is not intended to: (a) state, indicate, express, represent or suggest otherwise; (b) imply or suggest any particular professional or governmental standard by which such experience is measured; and/ (c) to denigrate any other person, entity, firm, or attorney in any way.

This website is not intended as advertising or solicitation in any country, state, or jurisdiction anywhere in the world where it might be so characterized and thereby fail to comply with any and all applicable laws, regulations, and/or ethical rules of such country, state, jurisdiction.  Upwire Counsel does not request, intend, purport, and/or otherwise seek to be engaged by, represent, and/or work on behalf of anyone based solely upon a visit to this website or upon advertising, including, but not limited to, if doing so would not comport with any applicable law, regulation, and/or ethical rule.

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For the convenience of visitors, this website and/or Upwire Counsel may, from time to time, directly or indirectly, provide links to or from websites of other parties, and in doing so visitors to and/or users of this website may encounter materials not sponsored and/or created by Upwire Counsel.  Any links that may be so provided do not imply legal authority to use any protected rights of others reflected in those links.  Upwire Counsel does not control or maintain the material presented by other persons in their websites.  The inclusion of any link on this website does not express, imply, and/or create any association or relationship between Upwire Counsel and the person sponsoring the linked site and does not constitute or imply any affiliation, authorization, ratification, endorsement, approval or sponsorship of any other site by Upwire Counsel, or the affiliation, authorization, ratification, endorsement, approval or sponsorship of Upwire Counsel by the sponsor of any such site.  Upwire Counsel does not promote, guarantee, and/or assume any responsibility for the content, accuracy, or completeness of any material that may be presented directly or indirectly in any such site.  Interaction with (including but not limited to clicking on) any link of any such site means you have left this website and are no longer interacting with Upwire Counsel in any way whatsoever.

By using this website, you agree that you will not link material to or from this website to any other website, and/or associate, clip, paste, attach, frame, or otherwise interrelate any material or information in this site with any other website and/or the materials or information of any other entity, without the express prior written consent of Upwire Counsel via a separate document signed by its authorized signatory.  If any such linking, association, clipping, pasting, attachment, framing, and/or other interrelation does occur as a result of your use of this website, you agree to terminate the link, association, clipping, pasting, attachment, framing, and/or other interrelation immediately upon our request.

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This website is controlled, operated and administered by Upwire Counsel from offices within the USA. If you access this website from a location outside of the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws.  You agree that you will not use any content on this website in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.

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BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE THAT UPWIRE COUNSEL IS NOT LIABLE TO YOU AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY, IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER, FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR UNDER ANY THEORY, ARISING FROM THIS WEBSITE, ANY AND ALL MATERIALS AND INFORMATION IT MAY CONTAIN, AND/OR YOUR REVIEW OR DOWNLOADING OF, ACCESS TO, USE OF, AND/OR RELIANCE UPON ANY SUCH MATERIALS AND INFORMATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LIABILITY OR DAMAGES UNDER CONTRACT OR TORT THEORIES OR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY VIRUSES CONTAINED WITHIN ELECTRONIC FILES OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY LINKED SITE, REGARDLESS OF PRIOR NOTICE TO UPWIRE COUNSEL REGARDING SAME.

Further Disclaimers and Disclosures

In some instances, the practice descriptions and/or attorney experience statements on this website may include descriptions of successful client representations, strategies, and/or outcomes.  Any results portrayed are dependent on the facts of the particular matters described, among other variables.  Results may differ due to any number of variables.  Upwire Counsel neither offers nor intends any assurance, and makes no guarantee or prediction, that it will be successful in any transaction or representation, even if such transaction or representation involves similar facts and/or circumstances.  Upwire Counsel further offers no assurance, guarantee and/or prediction that it will be successful in any transaction or other representation.  Past performance does not necessarily correlate to future success, and results in any proceeding or transaction are not necessarily indicative of or similar to results in any other proceeding or transaction.

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We designate, to the extent that any jurisdiction requires designation, our San Francisco office as our host server location and Julia Gonzalez Sanders as the attorney responsible for this website.