How entries in this directory are compiled, who may be listed, the basis on which entries are published, and what any practitioner named in the directory may require of LegalyTech in respect of an entry concerning them.
The directory is published by LegalyTech LLC of 30 N Gould Street, Suite N, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States of America, which is the controller in respect of the personal data appearing in it. Enquiries concerning this notice, and requests of the kind described below, are addressed to the contact given at the foot of this page.
Listing is open to those working in the law in one of the jurisdictions shown in the directory search, namely attorneys-at-law, barristers, solicitors, general counsel, paralegals, legal clerks, legal secretaries, compliance officers, notaries public, legal executives and law firms. No other category of person or business is listed. Where the role is one requiring admission or a practising certificate, no entry is published as claimed unless that status is verified against the public register of the jurisdiction concerned; where the role does not require admission, the entry is published as claimed only once the firm or employer has confirmed the position.
A listing contains professional information only: the name under which the person practises or works, the role, the firm, chambers or employer concerned, the jurisdiction, practice areas or fields of work, languages, a practice description, published contact details and, where a listing has been claimed, client reviews. No information of a private character is published, and no information is published concerning any person other than a legal practitioner in their professional capacity.
An entry marked as unclaimed has been compiled from sources available to the public: the rolls of attorneys and registers maintained by the law associations, bar associations and courts of the jurisdiction concerned, and the person's own published professional listing. Each unclaimed entry states which of those sources it was compiled from. No entry is compiled from information given to LegalyTech in confidence, from any client record, or from any source that is not open to the public, and no entry is enriched by the purchase or inference of further personal data.
A directory of practitioners is of use to a member of the public seeking representation only if it is reasonably complete, and an accurate record of a professional practice is in the interest of the practitioner as much as of the client who is looking for them. Publication therefore rests on the legitimate interests of LegalyTech and of the public in an accurate and reasonably complete record of practising legal professionals, the information published being limited to that which the practitioner already holds out to the public in the course of practice. Publication does not rest on consent, and nothing in an unclaimed entry is to be taken as suggesting that its subject has supplied it, agreed to it or has any relationship with LegalyTech.
Contact details are not published, and client reviews are not accepted, until the entry has been claimed and the claimant's standing verified. The reason is that a practitioner must be in a position to answer anything published about their practice before it appears, and must control the channel through which prospective clients are directed to them.
A claim by an admitted practitioner is verified by reference to the roll, bar or admission number supplied and the public register of the jurisdiction concerned, together with confirmation sent to a firm email address. A claim by a person in a role that does not require admission is verified through the firm or employer, by confirmation from a partner, principal or supervisor and by an email address on the firm's own domain. Verification material is held for that purpose and is not published.
Any practitioner or firm named in the directory may, at any time and without charge, require LegalyTech to correct an entry concerning them, to restrict what it contains, or to withdraw it from publication altogether, and need give no reason for doing so. A request is made through the claim and removal form or by writing to the contact below, and is actioned within five business days of receipt. Withdrawal is permanent: a withdrawn entry is not reinstated from a later compilation. Where the law of a practitioner's jurisdiction confers further rights in respect of personal data, including rights of access, objection and complaint to a supervisory authority, those rights are honoured in accordance with that law.
LegalyTech publishes listings. It does not recommend, endorse, vouch for, rank or assess the competence, standing or fitness of any practitioner named in the directory, it gives no legal advice through the directory, and it accepts no instruction on behalf of any practitioner listed. The decision to instruct rests with the client, who is responsible for satisfying themselves as to the practitioner's entitlement to practise and suitability for the matter in hand.
Information compiled from a public source is accurate only as at the date of compilation, and a practitioner may have changed firm, practice or standing since. Where LegalyTech is told that an entry is inaccurate, it corrects or withdraws the entry rather than leaving it standing in a corrected form that the practitioner has not seen.
An unclaimed entry is retained while it remains accurate and the practitioner remains in practice in the jurisdiction concerned. A claimed listing is retained while the listing is current. Verification material is retained for the period for which the listing is held and for twelve months afterwards.
LegalyTech LLC is established in the United States and the directory is hosted there. Where personal data is transferred out of a jurisdiction that restricts such transfers, the transfer is made under the Standard Contractual Clauses. LegalyTech LLC does not claim participation in the EU–US, UK or Swiss Data Privacy Framework.
Requests under this notice are made through the claim and removal form or in writing to LegalyTech LLC at the address given above.
This notice supplements the Privacy Policy, the Lawyer Directory Terms and the Reviews Policy, and prevails over them in respect of directory listings.