Intellectual Property Claims, Copyright Notices, Legal Issues,
Warnings  and Disclaimers.

What You Agree To When You Use this Site. (The legal stuff, but IT IS IMPORTANT, and you really should read it!)

DO NOT send us any information that you regard as confidential unless and until we authorize you to do so.  When you send us an email from this web site, or complete a form on this site to submit to Bucklin, you acknowledge that the communication is not confidential and that an attorney-client relationship has not been created by the email you are sending.

The information at this Web site is not legal advice. The material on this website is for general informational purposes only. It is provided to inform attorneys, company executives, others hiring expert witnesses or consultants.   No attorney - client relationship is sought to be created by this website. 

We are particular about the companies we represent, and we do not want an excess amount of work.  We do not take all employment or retainers offered us. We reserve the right to decline any representation. We may be required to decline representation if it would create a conflict of interest with our other clients.

We make no warranty, express or implied, about the accuracy or reliability of the information at this Web site or at any other Web site to which this site is linked. We are not responsible for any information contained on or omitted from any site linked to this website. This Web site is an public information resource. It might contain links to other resources on the Internet. Those links are to help you identify and locate other resources on the Internet. The links are not intended to state or imply that we sponsor or are affiliated or associated in any way with the information at those other Web sites.  See below for "Disclaimer of Warranties" which basically says we do not warrant anything about what we say or what we sell as goods or services unless we specifically tell you we are making a warranty or guarantee.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Notices

This notice applies to all proprietary material throughout this Internet site (this "site"). The entire material, except for intellectual property of others, on this site is claimed as intellectual property of Leonard H. Bucklin.

The format and content of all files at this site are subject to current and future applicable copyright laws. None of the content may be used for any purpose whatsoever without express permission of the copyright owner, except as defined below.

All content, including but not limited to text, designs, logos, titles, and visual materials and format within this site are the copyrighted materials, trademarks, service marks, trade names or other property of Leonard H. Bucklin (herein "Intellectual Property.) Nothing contained on this site should be construed as granting (including without limitation, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise) any license or right to use any of Leonard H. Bucklin's Intellectual Property displayed on the site.

Limited License to use this Site and Limited Permissions Granted. You may copy and download material displayed on the site only on both the conditions (1) the use is only for your personal use and study and that your use is non-profit, or educational, and not-commercial use, and (2) you show "Copyrighted by Leonard Bucklin" on all copied materials. We grant permission to reviewers to quote brief passages in reviews. All other rights are reserved. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use any of the content (Intellectual Property) of this site for public or commercial purposes, without Leonard H. Bucklin's written permission.

Disclaimer of Warranties

YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF this site IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. This site IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS.

WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.  THERE IS NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY GOODS OR SERVICE PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE, OR ANY TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH THE Website. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM THE Website WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY.

Claims and Jurisdiction; Legal Issues

This is a Arizona, United States, website and is subject to Arizona and United States law.  Your use of this site or the purchase of goods or services through this website will be governed by the laws of the State of Arizona.  On any claim, you will submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within Arizona.

Any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to this site must be filed within 60 days after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred, regardless of any statute or law to the contrary.

Our Privacy Statement: The bottom line is that meeting your needs and expectations form the foundation of everything we do - including protecting your privacy. 

We will not disclose personally identifiable information without your permission, except when required by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to protect against harmful activities. We have a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all of our customers (and visitors of our website), including respecting your concerns about privacy. When we need to collect company or personally identifiable information from you to provide you with a particular service we specifically will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need.

In crisis management ethics consultations or internal investigative consultations we ordinarily specifically request of the company's counsel the guidelines for confidentiality or legal privilege that will be a part of our engagement, and we strictly comply.

Good ethics seminar training or corporate business ethics advice often requires open communications.  We respect the privacy and confidentiality of seminar participants and their companies, and will not disclose non-public company identifiable information we learn at our seminars without the permission of the company which has requested the seminar. 

Notification is requested if any material in this site is considered to be used contrary to the rights of yourself or others. If permission cannot be obtained for the continued use of such material, it will be removed from this site.  Notification is likewise requested if any material in these files is considered to be contrary to the privacy desires of any person or source named. Upon request of the person or source named, the material or reference will be modified or removed.

This website does not collect personally identifiable information from your computer when you browse this website and request pages from our servers. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with personally identifiable information, we will not know your name, your e-mail address, or any other personally identifiable information. When you request a page from our web site, our servers log the information provided in the internet HTTP request header including the IP number, the time of the request, the URL of your request and other information that is provided in the HTTP header to allow the internet to deliver to you the pages on the website. We also use this information to better understand how visitors use our website and how we can better tune our website, its contents and functionality to meet your needs.