E-mail Disclaimer
NOTICE: If you have received an e-mail from Baker & McKenzie, the e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain legally privileged and confidential information. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of the message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received a message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message and please delete it from your computer.
PLEASE NOTE that all incoming e-mails will be automatically scanned by us and by an external service provider to eliminate unsolicited promotional e-mails ("spam"). This could result in deletion of a legitimate e-mail before it is read by its intended recipient at our firm. Please tell us if you have concerns about this automatic filtering.
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Web Site Disclaimer
Baker & McKenzie International is a Swiss Verein with member law firms around the world. In accordance with the common terminology used in professional service organizations, reference to a "partner" means a person who is a partner, or equivalent, in such a law firm. Similarly, reference to an "office" means an office of any such law firm.
The Baker & McKenzie web sites are intended for informational purposes only. Nothing in the sites is to be considered as either creating an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Baker & McKenzie or as rendering of legal advice for any specific matter. Readers are responsible for obtaining such advice from their own legal counsel.
No client or other reader should act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information contained in the Baker & McKenzie web sites without seeking appropriate legal or other professional advice on the particular facts and circumstances at issue.
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Copyright and Reproduction Notice
Copyright © 2007, Baker & McKenzie. All rights reserved.
Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form of the Baker & McKenzie web sites is prohibited other than for individual use only and may not be recopied and shared with a third party. The permission to recopy by an individual does not allow for incorporation of material or any part of it in any work or publication, whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form.
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Privacy Statement
Personal Information
At Baker & McKenzie, we intend to give you as much control as possible over your personal information. In general, you can visit our web sites without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. There are times, however, when we may need information from you, such as your name and e-mail address, to correspond with you or provide you with a subscription, for example. If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet, it is our intent to let you know how we will use such information. If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect your wishes.
We do keep track of the domains from which people visit us. We analyze this data for trends and statistics, and then we discard it.
Marketing E-mails
If you receive a marketing e-mail from Baker & McKenzie, your e-mail address is either listed with us as someone who has expressly shared that address for the purpose of receiving information in the future (you have "opted in" or "subscribed" to the communication), or you have an existing relationship with us.
We will not share, sell or rent your personal information without your permission or unless ordered by a court of law.
The information you submit to us is available only to employees who manage this information for the purposes of sending you marketing e-mail communications and to contracted service providers for the purposes of providing services related to our communications with you.
We use security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information.
Each of our marketing e-mails includes an automated way for you to opt out (unsubscribe) from that particular communication or from all marketing e-mails sent by our Firm. Please follow the instructions on the e-mail you received. If you have received unwanted, unsolicited e-mail from our Firm, please forward a copy to of that e-mail to unsubscribe@bakernet.com.
Please note that if you reply to a Baker & McKenzie address in one of our marketing e-mails, the communication you send to us will not create a lawyer-client relationship with us. Do not send us any information that you or anyone else considers to be confidential or secret unless we have first agreed to be your lawyers in that matter. Any information you send us before we agree to be your lawyers cannot be protected from disclosure.
Business Relationships
Baker & McKenzie Web sites contain links to other web sites. Baker & McKenzie is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Cookies
There is a technology called "cookies" that can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Baker & McKenzie web sites use cookies so that we can better serve you when you return to our site. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.
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Specialization
Our lawyers tend to limit their practice to certain areas of the law. Except where specifically noted, none is certified by the jurisdiction in which he or she practices as a specialist in any area of practice. The lawyers resident in all offices, unless otherwise indicated, are not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
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Edward J. Zulkey, in the Firm's Global Services group in Chicago, is responsible for the content of this document.