Terms of Service

Who we are

This site is published by McCollum Crowley P.A. (“McCollum Crowley,” “the firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), a litigation defense firm with offices serving Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. “You” means the person or organization using the site.

“The site” means every page, feature, and file served from this domain, including the American Claims Guide, Legal Updates, and the Firm Portal.

Acceptance and changes

By accessing or using the site you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you use the site on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

We may revise these Terms at any time. The effective date at the top of this page shows when the current version took effect. Changes apply going forward, and continuing to use the site after they are posted means you accept the revised Terms.

The site is information, not legal advice

Everything on this site is general information about the firm and about areas of law we practice in. It is not legal advice, is not a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney who knows your facts, and should not be relied on as either. Law differs by jurisdiction and changes over time, and material here may be out of date by the time you read it.

Descriptions of prior matters, results, recognitions, and rankings are illustrative. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any other matter.

No attorney-client relationship

Using this site, emailing or calling the firm through it, or submitting a question to the American Claims Guide does not create an attorney-client relationship. A relationship is formed only when the firm and the client sign a written engagement agreement, after the firm has completed its conflicts review and confirmed the engagement in writing.

Until an engagement is established in writing, information you send is not protected by the attorney-client privilege, may not be treated as confidential, and may not prevent the firm from representing another party whose interests are adverse to yours.

Do not send confidential information

Do not send confidential, privileged, proprietary, trade-secret, or regulated information through this site — in a Claims Guide question or attachment, through the email and phone links, or otherwise — until an attorney-client relationship has been established in writing and you have been told which channel to use.

No transmission over the internet is completely secure. Send only what is necessary to describe your inquiry at a general level.

Attorney advertising and licensure

This site may be considered attorney advertising under the rules of some jurisdictions. It is intended for general audiences in the jurisdictions where the firm's attorneys are admitted to practice.

The firm maintains offices serving Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and its attorneys are licensed in those states as well as Iowa, North Dakota, and Utah. Individual attorney admissions are listed on each professional's profile. We do not seek to represent anyone in any jurisdiction where this site would not comply with local rules, and nothing here is an offer to practice law in a jurisdiction where the responsible attorney is not admitted.

Permitted use

You may use the site to learn about the firm, to evaluate the firm for legal services, and for your own internal reference. Clients and prospective clients may also use it for ordinary internal business purposes. Any other use requires our prior written permission.

We may change, suspend, or withdraw any part of the site, including any feature or content, at any time and without notice.

Prohibited conduct

You agree not to:

• Attempt to access the Firm Portal, any account, server, or other non-public area of the site without authorization.
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the site, or breach or circumvent its security or authentication measures, except through the firm's published coordinated disclosure process.
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, mirror, or bulk-download the site or its data beyond ordinary search-engine indexing and any machine-readable discovery files the firm publishes.
• Use site content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate a machine-learning model, or to assemble a competing dataset or product, without our prior written permission.
• Upload or transmit malware, or files containing malicious, corrupted, or deliberately malformed content.
• Submit content designed to manipulate the Claims Guide assistant into disregarding its instructions, revealing its configuration, or producing output drawn from anything other than the indexed guide.
• Interfere with the operation of the site, including by overloading it, circumventing rate or usage limits, or interfering with anyone else's use of it.
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with the firm or any of its personnel.
• Use the site to violate any law, infringe anyone's rights, or transmit unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or misleading material.
• Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice on the site.

The American Claims Guide

The American Claims Guide is a research aid that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions from the published American Claims Guide.

Its answers may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Verify anything you intend to rely on against current primary law. Claims Guide output is not legal advice, and using the assistant does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Do not submit confidential, privileged, regulated, or unnecessary personal information. You are responsible for what you submit, and you represent that you have the right to submit it.

Usage limits apply, and working around them is prohibited conduct. We may change, limit, or withdraw the assistant at any time.

Legal Updates

Legal Updates are automatically generated summaries of recent appellate decisions from courts in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. They are produced with automated tools, are not individual legal analysis, and may contain errors or omit context that matters.

Read the linked opinion and confirm the decision's current status — rehearing, further review, or subsequent history — before relying on anything summarized here. Images accompanying updates are credited on each item and remain the property of their owners.

Firm Portal

The Firm Portal is a restricted area for firm personnel and other users the firm authorizes. Access requires a credential issued by the firm.

You must not attempt to access the portal without authorization, share or reuse portal credentials, or use anything obtained from the portal outside the firm's purposes. Unauthorized access to a protected computer system may violate federal and state law, and the firm may pursue every available remedy.

Intellectual property

The site and its contents — text, design, layout, graphics, illustrations, photographs, page structure, and the McCollum Crowley name, wordmark, and “Defend Differently” branding — are owned by the firm or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view the site and to print or download a reasonable number of copies for personal, non-commercial reference, provided you keep all proprietary notices intact. No other license or right is granted, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

You may not reproduce, distribute, publicly display, modify, create derivative works from, or commercially exploit any part of the site without our prior written permission. Third-party names, marks, and logos appearing on the site belong to their owners, and their appearance does not imply endorsement or affiliation.

Third-party links and resources

The site links to court websites, published opinions, and other third-party resources for convenience. We do not control those destinations and are not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy, or privacy practices. Following a link is at your own risk and subject to that site's own terms.

Feedback

If you send us suggestions, comments, or other feedback about the site, you grant the firm a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use it for any purpose without restriction or compensation. Do not send feedback you consider confidential or proprietary. Questions about this can go to legal@mccollumlaw.com.

Availability of the site

The site is provided on an “as available” basis and may be unavailable for maintenance, updates, or reasons outside our control. We are not obligated to preserve anything you submit through it, so keep your own copy of anything you need.

Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or the servers that make it available are free of harmful components. We do not warrant that any content — including Claims Guide responses and Legal Updates — is accurate, complete, or current.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER THE FIRM NOR ITS PARTNERS, ATTORNEYS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the site will not exceed one hundred United States dollars (US $100).

Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law or under the rules of professional conduct governing the firm's attorneys, and nothing here alters the terms of any signed engagement agreement.

Indemnification

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the firm and its partners, attorneys, employees, and agents from any claim, damage, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the site, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any law or the rights of any third party, or any content you submit through the site.

Governing law and venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the site are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

You agree that the state and federal courts located in Hennepin County, Minnesota have exclusive jurisdiction and venue over any such dispute, you consent to personal jurisdiction there, and you waive any objection based on venue or forum non conveniens. To the extent permitted by law, any claim relating to the site must be brought within one year after it arises.

The site is controlled and operated from the United States. If you access it from elsewhere, you are responsible for complying with the laws of your own jurisdiction.

General terms

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization or transfer of the firm's practice.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and the firm regarding the site and supersede any prior understanding about it. Headings are for convenience only. The sections on intellectual property, prohibited conduct, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law survive any end of your use of the site.

Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to legal@mccollumlaw.com. To reach the firm about a legal matter, use the Contact option in the site menu — and please do not include confidential information in a first message.