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No Legal Advice

This website is not intended to be, and you should not rely on any materials on this website as, a source of legal advice.  Postings to this website have been prepared for informational and entertainment purposes only.

Transmission or receipt of information contained in this website does not create an attorney-client relationship.  I make no assurance that any correspondence, via e-mail or otherwise, between you and me resulting from your receipt of information from this website will be secure or treated as confidential or privileged.  The transmission or delivery of any correspondence will not create an attorney-client relationship between you and me.  Please do not send me any confidential information.  Legal advice must be tailored to the specific circumstances of each situation, so nothing on this website should be used as a substitute for the advice of qualified legal counsel familiar with your particular situation.

I assume no responsibility for the accuracy or timeliness of any information contained on this website.

This website is not intended to serve as an advertisement or solicitation of legal or any other business.  In particular, I do not intend or desire to wish to solicit through this website the business of anyone in any state or other jurisdiction where this website, or the use thereof, may not be in compliance with any law or ethical rule.

I also am not a legal referral service.  I cannot and will not refer you to legal counsel.

Content Policy

This website is neither affiliated with nor supported by my employer or any of its or my clients.  All views expressed on this website are mine alone (but they should be yours, too).  Moreover, all mistakes on this website are mine alone.

I have written extensively, on this website and others, about politics, public policy, and professional hockey.  This website has always been, and will remain, an online place for me to have public conversations about things that (a) interest me and (b) I think will be interesting to others.  I will undoubtedly fail when it comes to (b):

And sometimes I will be wrong.  But that does not mean I do not appreciate your readership or comments.  I’m just a naturally curious person, and a wide range of subjects can hold my attention (or provoke a response).  I also do not have a very effective mental “off” switch.  A good friend and mentor once described me as an “inveterate rambler,” and you will probably frequently find evidence of that claim here.  I make no apologies for it, in advance or otherwise.

Because all lawyers have certain ethical obligations and legal duties to their clients, there will inevitably be times when I remain silent on even an important case or political development or public policy issue.  You should not take my silence as my statement or opinion on that case or development or issue (otherwise known as “The Balloon Juice fallacy“).

Comments Policy

This website is not a public forum.  I personally pay for the site hosting and put personal effort into the site’s design and content, such as they are.  In providing this website and the information on it, I reserve the following rights:

1. The right of control over content and comments.

2. The right to edit comments.

3. The right to censor comments.

4. The right to delete comments.

5. The right to block comments by specific persons.

Given these reserved rights, I have adopted the following Comments Policy:

1. Not all posts will be open to comments.  I may close certain posts to comments at the time of publishing the post, or even after publishing the post.

2. You must use the Disqus comment form to post comments.  Comments using keywords, spam, splog URLs, or other suspicious information in the comment form will be edited or deleted.

3. In keeping with standards of professionalism and common courtesy, comments that include offensive or inappropriate language, or are considered by me to be rude or offensive, will be edited or deleted.

4. Similarly, in the interest of fair play among commenters with divergent views, no personal attacks will be tolerated in this website’s comments.  You may (and should!) question or argue about substantive content, but you may not attack me or any other commenters.  Failure to respect fellow conversation participants may result in a permanent ban from commenting here.

5. Any comment assumed to be possible comment spam will be marked as such and deleted.

6. Anyone who violates this Comments Policy may be banned from commenting on this website.

7. All comments on this website are the responsibility of the commenter, not the website owner or author.  By submitting a comment on this website, you agree that the comment content is your own, and to hold this website and its owner and author and their representatives, heirs, and assigns, harmless from any and all repercussions, damages, or liability, in perpetuity.

8. All trackbacks will be treated inline with this Comments Policy.

Privacy Policy

The following Privacy Policy is in effect at all times:

1. If you wish to contact me through this website, you must provide your email address.  I will not publish to or share your email address with any other person, but I may retain it to contact you.

2. All email, snail mail, phone numbers, and any other private and personal information posted in any comment will be deleted as soon as possible to protect the privacy of the person with whom the information is associated.  To prevent such a situation altogether, you should never share such information in a comment on this website.

3. I use certain third-party services on this website via developer plugins to enhance both the user and publisher experiences.  If you have questions about these services or their respective privacy policies and practices, please contact me.

Last updated on September 17, 2019.