Email Notice
Effective September 3, 2026
This notice applies to every email and text message sent by Boland Law Group, PLLC, and to every attachment, and is incorporated by reference into each of them. The short notice at the foot of our messages is a summary of this page. This page applies in full, and if the two differ, this page controls.
Confidentiality. Our messages, their attachments, and any embedded metadata are intended only for the persons or entities to which they are addressed. They may contain information protected by the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, or other rules of confidentiality. A message is not less protected because it lacks a confidentiality legend.
If you are not an intended recipient. You are not authorized to read, copy, forward, distribute, disclose, or act on the message. Notify us at once by replying to the sender or calling (480) 420-8268, then delete the message and all attachments from every device and system, including deleted-items folders and backups, and tell us that you have done so. Do not keep a copy for any purpose.
Lawyers who receive a message in error. You have independent obligations under Rule 4.4(b) of the applicable rules of professional conduct, including to notify the sender promptly and, in Arizona, to preserve the status quo for a reasonable time so the sender can take protective measures. Do not review the message further, and do not examine metadata in it or in its attachments.
No waiver; reservation of rights. Inadvertent transmission to an unintended recipient is not intended as, and does not constitute, a waiver of the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, or any other protection, including under Rule 502 of the Federal Rules of Evidence and its Arizona counterpart. The firm may demand the prompt return or destruction of the message and every copy, and written confirmation that this was done. The firm and its clients reserve all rights and remedies.
Clients: protecting your privilege. The privilege belongs to you, and you can lose it. Forwarding a privileged message to anyone outside the attorney-client relationship, including family members, business associates, or other advisors, may waive the privilege for that message and for the subject it discusses. Do not correspond with us through an employer’s or a shared email account; courts have held that such communications may not be privileged. If you believe an advisor needs to see something we sent you, ask us first.
No advice outside an engagement. Unless the firm has agreed in writing to represent you in the matter a message addresses, nothing in that message is legal or tax advice to you, nothing in it may be relied on by you, the firm does not represent you in that matter, and the firm is not reviewing, monitoring, or preserving any deadline, filing, or time limit on your behalf. For our clients, advice is limited to the scope of the engagement described in the engagement letter, reflects the facts we knew and the law in effect when it was given, and is not updated after a matter concludes unless you engage us to do so. No one other than our client may rely on our advice or work product.
Prospective clients and unsolicited information. Information you share with us in connection with a scheduled consultation is treated as confidential in accordance with our professional obligations, whether or not we are ultimately engaged. Please do not send documents, financial records, or other confidential information before we have completed a conflict check and asked for them. Unsolicited information sent before we have agreed to consider your matter does not make you a prospective client, may not be protected, and may prevent us from taking your matter at all. Nothing you send by email obligates the firm to accept a matter.
No agreement, and no electronic signature, by email. No email creates or modifies an engagement, a fee arrangement, or the scope of a representation, and no email otherwise binds the firm, unless the message expressly states that it binds the firm and is sent by an authorized partner. A name typed at the end of a message, an automated signature block, or a reply that quotes an earlier message is not an electronic signature of the firm under the Arizona Electronic Transactions Act, the federal E-SIGN Act, or any similar law, and is not evidence of an intent to be bound. The firm signs documents electronically only through its designated electronic-signature platform. An engagement begins only when the firm’s written engagement agreement has been signed by an authorized partner, in ink or through that platform, and any required fee has been paid and cleared. Any waiver of, or exception to, the firm’s Terms of Engagement must be stated in a writing signed by an authorized partner.
Terms of Engagement. All services and all interactions with the firm, with or without a written engagement letter, are governed by the firm’s Terms of Engagement, bolandlawgroup.com/terms, in the version in effect on the date of the message, as updated under those Terms, and by any written engagement agreement. On request we will send you a dated copy of the version in effect on any given date.
Service of process and formal notices. Nothing in any message is consent to service of process, or to service of pleadings, papers, or formal legal notices, by email, except through a court’s electronic-filing system or as the firm has expressly agreed in writing for a particular matter. Notices required by a contract, trust, or other instrument must be given in the manner, and to the address, that the instrument specifies.
Urgent and time-sensitive matters. Email and text messages are not monitored continuously, and, as our Terms of Engagement explain, our attorneys are not immediately available on demand. Do not rely on email alone for anything urgent or deadline-sensitive: call (480) 420-8268 during business hours, tell our staff the matter is urgent, and confirm that your message was received. Email is not a reliable way to reach our calendar; do not rely on a scheduling change unless you hear back from our office.
Payment and wire fraud. We never change our payment, wire, or account instructions by email, and we never ask you to send funds to a new or personal account. We may email a link to our published payment page or our LawPay page for an invoice or a consultation fee. Anything else, including any change in how, where, or to whom you pay, should be treated as fraudulent even if it appears to come from us or from a member of our staff. Before you send funds of any kind, confirm the instructions by telephone using a number you already have for the firm, not a number or link in the email or text. The firm is not responsible for funds sent without that verification.
Security and electronic communications. Email is not a secure medium; it can be intercepted, misdirected, delayed, or altered. Unless we have agreed otherwise in writing, we correspond by unencrypted email, and a secure portal is available on request for sensitive documents. Do not send account numbers, passwords, or Social Security numbers by email unless we have asked you to use a secure link. Consistent with our Terms of Engagement, communications with the firm may be recorded, transcribed, summarized, stored, or processed with cloud-based and automated tools, including artificial intelligence, for the firm’s internal records and quality control. By continuing to correspond with us by email or text you accept these risks and practices as described in the Terms; you may request alternative arrangements in writing at any time. We take reasonable precautions against malware but do not guarantee that any message or attachment is free of it, and you are responsible for your own systems.
Licensing. Our attorneys are licensed only in the jurisdictions stated in our Terms of Engagement, and nothing in any message is advice about the law of any other jurisdiction.
Versions. We update this notice from time to time. The version in effect on the date a message is sent governs that message. Each version is dated and archived, and we will provide any prior version on request.
Questions about this notice: call (480) 420-8268, or write to Boland Law Group, PLLC, 15100 N. 78th Way, Suite 203, Scottsdale, Arizona 85260.