• Content that is threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, obscene, invasive of another’s privacy, otherwise tortious or unlawful, hateful, or is racially or ethnically objectionable.
• Material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, or which negatively affects other users’ ability to upload, download, communicate in real time, or utilize features as they have been designed to function.
• Material that violates a copyright, license, right of privacy, right of publicity, trademark, privilege, right of confidentiality, fiduciary obligation, trade secret, employment obligation, agreement or other restriction on use. 
• Material whose use is authorized only when accompanied by a copyright notice, source credit or other required marking or language, unless accompanied by the required marking or language.
• Content that constitutes, encourages or provides instructions in committing a criminal offense, violation of another’s rights, conduct that is likely to give rise to liability or violation of Court Rules or Rules of Professional Conduct, or violation of these Terms of Use.
• Advertisements, solicitations, promotions or announcements of goods or services for commercial purposes, except for the purpose of sharing information with users about third party services that are likely to be of interest to such users. In the event you do have a financial interest, you must disclose it. 
• Material that contains known falsehoods (unless for the purpose of disclosing and pointing out such falsehoods), including use of inaccurate identification of content, author, source, your identity or affiliation.
• Content outside the stated purpose and scope of the area to which it is uploaded.

By uploading to the Web site or transmitting material via the Web site you do so at your own risk and expense with full knowledge of these Terms of Use. WSAJ will notify users of their breach of these Terms of Use when WSAJ learns and has reasonable evidence or confirmation of a breach. WSAJ does not undertake in any other manner to protect material posted or transmitted by users. If another user violates the copyright or other restriction on use applicable to material you have posted or transmitted, WSAJ will cooperate with your enforcement efforts by providing you nonprivileged information easily available to WSAJ from its records. WSAJ does not commit to undertake any enforcement efforts itself with respect to such violations, but may bar violators and the entity with which the violator is associated from the Web site and from WSAJ membership.

• Advertisements or solicitations; to post other advertisements and solicitations that may be of interest to Eagle Members, submit them to WSAJ for posting by WSAJ.
• Jokes, stories, anecdotes.
• Racist, sexist or other derogatory materials that might be offensive to others.
• Endorsements or solicitations for political candidates or causes.

Compliance With RPC: In connection with the use of this site and use of materials from this site, users must comply with the Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys admitted to the Bar of the State of Washington.

Downloading: It is of utmost importance that you insure downloaded information and materials not be accessible to attorneys whose practice is primarily tort defense litigation. Except for material available for use publicly, you may not share any posted information, or documents obtained from or through this portion of the Web site with any law firm, attorneys or staff working for lawyers whose practice is primarily tort defense litigation. If you work in a law firm with attorneys whose practice is primarily tort defense litigation, you are required as a condition of access to this portion of the Web site to take all measures necessary to prevent those attorneys and their support staff from being able to access any download or transmission received from Eagle Member areas.

Use of Downloaded Material: No material from this site may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way that conflicts these Terms of Use.

• Except as necessary for your use, do not share the material with persons who are not Eagle Members;
• Do not share the “legislative” material with persons who are not Eagle Members, not even with your clients;
• You may take excerpts from materials intended for public use, unless the materials are otherwise restricted, but you may not make modifications to the materials without the author’s consent;
• Do not post downloaded material onto any other Web site or generally accessible networked computer;
• Keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
• Do not file in any proceeding a copy of an Eagle area download or received transmission, unless identified as for public use, without either permission of the author or pursuant to court order entered after notice to the author and WSAJ. (A “proceeding” is any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative and whether formal or informal.)

Confidentiality and Nondisclosure: These Additional Provisions contain rules addressing the confidentiality of transmissions via this Web site and obligations of nondisclosure by users. By using the Eagle Member areas in any manner you agree to abide by the confidentiality and nondisclosure terms. This obligation continues in effect until and unless you receive permission from the source of the information to disclose it and you abide by the permitted terms and scope of disclosure. Whenever you disclose confidential information received through this Web site, it must be disclosed only as permitted by these terms and you must receive an enforceable commitment from the recipients to abide by the nondisclosure terms. Your use of Eagle areas also constitutes your acknowledgement that remedies at law may be inadequate to protect against breach of the nondisclosure provisions and that WSAJ and the users of this Web site may obtain an injunction to enforce these provisions without proof of damages. You further agree to notify WSAJ and to request that WSAJ and the authors of material at issue have an opportunity to respond if you are requested or ordered by any governmental entity to disclose confidential information obtained through Web site, and you will seek an appropriate protective order for the confidential information. Information that becomes generally known to the public or the legal community without disclosure by you is no longer deemed confidential information.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

WSAJ respects the intellectual property rights of others and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, notification must be submitted to the following agent:

Copyright Administrator
Liz Berry
Washington State Association for Justice
1809 7th Ave., #1500
Seattle, WA 98101-1324

Please include the following in your notification:

• Description of the material that you claim is infringing
• Description of the location on the Web site of the infringing material;
• Description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
• A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• A statement by you that the information in the notification is accurate and under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf;
• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
• Your address, telephone number, and email address.

For Additional Contact Information:
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