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Terms of Use

Effective July 23, 2026. These terms govern your use of the California Attorney Registry at californiaattorneyregistry.com and calegallaw.com (the "Registry"). By using the Registry you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Registry.

The Registry is operated by Favorite Followers LLC, a California limited liability company. Where these terms refer to the Registry taking, permitting, or refusing an action, that entity is the one acting.

In these terms, "Registry Parties" means the Registry together with its operators, owners, members, officers, directors, employees, agents, contractors, licensors, and affiliates. Every disclaimer, release, limitation of liability, indemnity, and the arbitration agreement below runs to the benefit of each of the Registry Parties, individually and collectively.

PLEASE READ SECTION 16 CAREFULLY. It requires that most disputes between you and the Registry Parties be resolved by binding individual arbitration and includes a waiver of class actions and jury trials. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days as described in that section.

1. What the Registry is

The Registry is a directory and legal-information resource. It indexes California attorney records from public records published by the State Bar of California and publishes attorney-supplied professional information after review. It covers California only.

2. What the Registry is not

  • Not a lawyer referral service. The Registry is not a lawyer referral service under California Business and Professions Code section 6155 and is not certified by the State Bar of California as one. It does not select, recommend, match, or refer counsel.
  • Not legal advice. All legal content is general legal information about California law. It is not legal advice, is not tailored to your circumstances, and must not be relied on as a substitute for consulting an attorney.
  • Not an attorney-client relationship. Using the Registry, reading its content, or contacting an attorney through it does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and the Registry. The Registry is not a law firm and does not practice law.
  • Not a rating or ranking service. The Registry does not score, rate, rank, or predict the results any attorney will obtain.

3. Where attorney information comes from

License facts — name, bar number, admission date, license status, and public-record locality and contact fields — are sourced from public records published by the State Bar of California. Additional profile information may be supplied by the attorney and published after review. Each profile identifies the provenance of what it shows.

Public records change. The Registry synchronizes on a published cadence and can lag the official record. For any time-sensitive or consequential use — including confirming that an attorney is presently licensed and in good standing — verify directly with the State Bar of California. The Registry does not warrant that any record is current, complete, or accurate.

4. Verification markers

The Registry publishes markers indicating the source of information and whether an attorney has verified control of the contact information on the official record. These markers describe identity and provenance only. They are not ratings, endorsements, certifications of competence, or predictions of results. The State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization — not the Registry — designates certified legal specialists; where a certified specialty is shown, the certifying organization is named.

5. Sponsored placements

  • Sponsored placements are labeled "Sponsored" on the placement itself.
  • Sponsored results appear in a labeled band above the neutral directory roster, ordered by membership level. Free and unclaimed profiles follow in the neutral directory order beneath that band.
  • Membership fees are flat and published. They are never calculated per case, per lead, as a percentage of any recovery, or by reference to the value or outcome of any matter.
  • Membership never alters the neutral organic directory order, never removes a non-paying attorney from the roll, and never purchases identity verification or any quality claim.

6. Contacting attorneys through the Registry

Where the Registry offers a message relay, it transmits your message to the address on the attorney's official record. Messages sent through the Registry are not confidential and are not privileged. Do not send sensitive information, and do not rely on the relay for anything urgent.

The Registry does not guarantee that any attorney will read, respond to, or accept a matter. Legal claims are subject to deadlines, including statutes of limitation, that can permanently bar a claim if missed. Do not rely on the Registry or on any pending message to preserve your rights.

7. Text message (SMS) program

The Registry operates one SMS program carrying two kinds of message, each consented to separately: service messages — one-time verification codes during profile claiming and sign-in, and notices about activity on your own account — and, only for attorneys who additionally opt in, occasional promotional messages about the Registry. Agreeing to promotional messages is never a condition of using the Registry or of receiving verification codes.

  • Opt-in. You opt in by ticking an affirmative, unchecked-by-default box during verification, alongside a text-capable number already present on your official State Bar record. A second, separate and entirely optional box carries promotional consent. The Registry stores the exact wording you agreed to, with a timestamp. No one is enrolled without taking this action, and consent to receive texts is never a condition of using the Registry — email and an automated voice call are always offered instead. You can see the exact consent step, and use it, at the text message opt-in preview; the full program disclosure is at the text message program page.
  • What you receive. Verification codes expire in ten minutes. Account notices tell you about activity on your own profile — a referral sent to you, a claim approved, a document awaiting signature. Service messages are typically fewer than ten per month; promotional messages, if you opted into them, up to four per month. The Registry does not send texts to anyone who has not opted in.
  • Cost. The Registry charges nothing for these messages. Message and data rates may apply from your mobile carrier.
  • Opt-out. Reply STOP to any message to stop all further texts, of either kind; you will receive one confirmation. You can still verify by email or by automated voice call. Reply START to re-subscribe, HELP for help, or contact info@californiaattorneyregistry.com.
  • Carriers. Mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Supported carriers may change without notice.

How mobile numbers and opt-in data are handled — and the commitment that this information is never shared with third parties for their marketing — is described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Attorney accounts

California-licensed attorneys may claim and manage their own profile. Claiming a profile is additionally governed by the Attorney Profile Terms, which control in the event of a conflict with these terms as to claimed profiles.

9. Case files and attorney review

Any member of the public may write down a legal matter and file it with the Registry, free of charge. Doing so creates an account tied to a verified email address. There is never a fee to a member of the public for filing a matter, keeping a case file, or anything that follows from it.

  • Filing creates no attorney-client relationship, and what you write is not confidential and not privileged. The Registry is not a law firm, does not represent anyone, and cannot tell you whether you have a claim. Write enough for an attorney to understand the situation, and leave out anything you would not want read by someone who is not yet your lawyer.
  • Review happens only if you ask for it. A case file is visible to nobody unless you tick the separate box requesting attorney review. If you do not, your file stays private to you for as long as you keep it.
  • The Registry does not send your matter to anyone. If you request review, your matter joins a list that verified California attorneys may search on terms they choose. The Registry does not select attorneys for you, does not recommend anyone, and takes no part in whether any attorney reads your matter or responds. No more than five attorneys may hold a matter for review at one time.
  • Nothing is guaranteed. Attorneys decide for themselves which matters to read and whether to respond. Filing is not a promise that any attorney will review your case, offer terms, or take it on.
  • Proposals are offers to discuss representation, not legal advice and not an opinion that you have a case. Nothing is agreed until you and an attorney sign a fee agreement directly with each other. The Registry is not a party to that agreement, holds no client funds, and takes no share of any fee.
  • If you already have an attorney for a matter, do not file it here. California Rule of Professional Conduct 4.2 concerns communications with represented people; the Registry will not make a matter available for review where you have told us you are represented.
  • Your file is yours. You may read it back, change it, withdraw it from review, or delete it permanently at any time from your case file page. Deletion is real deletion.

Attorneys may take up matters from that list free of charge. Access to case review is not a paid feature and is not conditioned on membership at any level. Optional email alerts telling an attorney that the list has changed are a membership benefit (§ 10), but they carry nothing about any matter and are not needed to see or take up anything.

10. Notifications

The Registry sends notifications to people who hold an account — attorneys who have claimed a profile, and members of the public who have filed a case file. By creating an account you agree to receive them at the address or number on your account.

  • Account and service notices tell you about activity that concerns you: a sign-in link, a verification code, a claim approved, a referral sent to you, a question asked about your proposal, a proposal received on your case file, or a change to these terms. These are part of using the Registry, and they continue for as long as you hold an account.
  • Notices that work is available. An attorney may choose to be emailed when new matters have been submitted for review. This is off for everyone unless switched on from the dashboard, and is available to members at Gold and above. Those messages contain no details of any matter and are the same for every attorney who receives them; they are a notice that a list has changed, not an approach about any particular case. Being able to see and take up matters is free at every membership level and is never conditioned on paying — the membership level affects only whether we email you about them.
  • Promotional messages about the Registry itself are sent only to people who have separately opted in, and never as a condition of using anything here.
  • Turning them off. Every non-essential email carries an unsubscribe link and honours one-click unsubscribe. Notices about available work are off unless you switched them on, and can be switched off again at any time from the dashboard without affecting notices about your own account, which always reach you. Text messages are governed separately by § 7 and are always optional.

The Registry does not sell, rent, or share account contact details with third parties for their own marketing. See the Privacy Policy.

11. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • scrape, crawl outside published robots directives, or bulk-extract Registry content, or build a competing dataset from it;
  • misrepresent your identity, claim a profile that is not yours, or submit forged or altered verification evidence;
  • use Registry contact paths to send unsolicited commercial messages, or to harass any person;
  • interfere with the Registry's operation or security, or access non-public areas.

12. Intellectual property

The Registry's original content, compilation, design, and marks are owned by the Registry or its licensors. Underlying public records are not claimed as proprietary. You may make ordinary personal and professional reference use of published pages, including citing and linking to them.

13. Third-party links

The Registry links to third-party sites, including attorney and firm websites and the State Bar of California. It does not control and is not responsible for third-party content, and a link is not an endorsement.

14. Disclaimers

The Registry is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, and the Registry Parties expressly disclaim all warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. The Registry Parties do not warrant that the Registry will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any record, listing, or content is current, complete, or accurate. Any material obtained through the Registry is used at your own risk.

You are solely responsible for your dealings with any attorney or other user. The Registry Parties do not vet, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any attorney listed, any communication you exchange, any advice or service any attorney provides, or the outcome of any matter. Selecting and retaining counsel — and acting within any applicable deadline, including a statute of limitation — is entirely your own responsibility, which you knowingly assume.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will the Registry Parties be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, or lost opportunities, arising out of or relating to the Registry or these terms, under any theory of liability (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise), even if advised of the possibility of such damages — including any damages arising from any decision to retain or not retain an attorney, any attorney's conduct or advice, any reliance on a record or listing, any unavailability of the Registry, or any missed deadline.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total aggregate liability of the Registry Parties for all claims arising out of or relating to the Registry or these terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amounts you paid the Registry in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US $100. These limitations apply to each of the Registry Parties and survive termination. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law, including California Civil Code section 1668; where a limitation is not permitted, the Registry Parties' liability is limited to the least amount the law allows.

16. Release

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release the Registry Parties from, and waive, any and all claims, demands, damages, and liabilities of every kind — known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected — arising out of or relating to any interaction or dispute between you and any attorney or other user, any reliance on any record, listing, or content, or any act or omission of a third party. If you are a California resident, you expressly waive California Civil Code section 1542, which provides: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party." You knowingly waive any protection of section 1542 and any comparable law of any jurisdiction.

17. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Registry Parties from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your use of the Registry, your content or submissions, your violation of these terms or of any law, or your infringement of any right of any third party. The Registry may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to cooperate; you will not settle any such matter without the Registry's prior written consent.

18. Binding arbitration; class action and jury-trial waiver

Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights. This section is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. Except for the carve-outs below, you and the Registry Parties agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Registry or these terms — whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, or any other theory, and whether arising before or after these terms took effect — will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration, and not in court.

  • Class and representative waiver. You and the Registry Parties agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any class or representative proceeding.
  • Jury-trial waiver. You and the Registry Parties waive any right to a trial by jury.
  • Administration. Arbitration will be administered by JAMS under its Streamlined or Comprehensive Rules then in effect, or by another established provider the parties agree on. The seat of arbitration is San Diego County, California; a consumer may elect telephonic or video participation or arbitration in the county of their residence. The arbitrator decides all issues, except that a court decides the enforceability of the class and representative waiver.
  • Carve-outs. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or Registry security. Consistent with California law, a claim for public injunctive relief is not subject to arbitration and may proceed in court after all other claims are arbitrated or resolved.
  • 30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing info@californiaattorneyregistry.com with your name and a clear statement that you decline arbitration, within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Opting out does not affect any other part of these terms.
  • Severability / blow-up. If the class and representative waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — is severed to court; the remainder of this section still governs all other claims. If any other part of this section is found unenforceable, it is severed and the rest remains in effect.

19. Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act as to Section 16. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and the Registry Parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in San Diego County, California, and waive any objection to that forum. Any claim you may have must be filed within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, to the extent such a limit is permitted by law.

20. Changes

The Registry may update these terms. Material changes will be reflected in the effective date above. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance.

21. Contact

Questions about these terms: info@californiaattorneyregistry.com. Privacy questions are addressed in the Privacy Policy.

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