Last Updated: September 15, 2026
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website, online intake forms, web-based messaging tools, text messaging features, chat features, and other online services (collectively, the “Services”) provided by The Powell Law Firm, LLC (“Powell Law Firm,” “the Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
Please read these Terms carefully. By accessing or using our Services, submitting information through our website, or communicating with us through an online intake or messaging feature, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Services.
1. Purpose of the Services
Powell Law Firm provides its website and related Services to make information about the Firm and its legal services available to the public and to allow prospective and existing clients to communicate with the Firm.
Our Services may include:
- General information concerning the Firm and areas of law in which we practice;
- Online forms through which prospective clients may submit information concerning a potential legal matter;
- Web-based chat or messaging;
- Text message communications;
- Appointment scheduling;
- Communications concerning the status or next steps associated with an inquiry;
- Electronic delivery or execution of documents where appropriate; and
- Other tools designed to facilitate communication between the Firm and prospective or existing clients.
There is no charge to website visitors or prospective clients for accessing the website or submitting an inquiry through the Firm's online intake Services.
2. No Attorney-Client Relationship Created by Website Use
Accessing this website, submitting an intake form, sending a text message, participating in an online chat, emailing the Firm, or otherwise communicating with Powell Law Firm does not, by itself, create an attorney-client relationship between you and the Firm or any of its attorneys.
An attorney-client relationship is established only when Powell Law Firm has agreed to represent you and the Firm and client have completed any engagement process required by the Firm, including execution of an applicable written representation agreement.
You should not rely on the submission of an inquiry as confirmation that Powell Law Firm represents you.
Until an attorney-client relationship has been established, you remain responsible for protecting your own legal rights, including complying with any statutes of limitation, notice requirements, filing deadlines, court deadlines, or other time-sensitive obligations.
3. No Legal Advice Through General Website Content
Information appearing on the Firm's website is provided for general informational purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as legal advice concerning any particular situation.
Every legal matter depends upon its specific facts and circumstances. Laws also change over time.
You should consult an attorney regarding your particular circumstances rather than relying solely upon information appearing on this website.
Past results, testimonials, case descriptions, settlements, verdicts, or other descriptions of prior matters do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future matter.
4. Submitting Information About a Potential Case
You may use our online intake Services to provide information concerning a potential legal matter.
You agree to provide information that is accurate to the best of your knowledge and not knowingly false, misleading, fraudulent, or unlawful.
Submission of information does not require Powell Law Firm to accept your matter.
The Firm may evaluate information you provide, request additional information, conduct a conflict check, speak with you, investigate preliminary information, or decline the matter for any lawful reason.
Do not assume that Powell Law Firm has agreed to represent you unless the Firm expressly confirms that representation has been accepted.
5. Confidential and Sensitive Information
We recognize that prospective clients may provide sensitive information when seeking legal assistance.
However, because an attorney-client relationship is not necessarily created merely by submitting information through the website, you should avoid submitting highly sensitive information unless reasonably necessary for the Firm to evaluate your inquiry.
If you become a client, communications and information associated with the representation will be handled in accordance with the Firm's professional obligations and applicable law.
The Firm's collection, use, storage, and disclosure of personal information through its website and intake systems are also governed by its Privacy Policy.
6. Text Message and Electronic Communications
Consent to Communicate
When you voluntarily provide your mobile telephone number to Powell Law Firm and affirmatively request or consent to communication by text message, you authorize the Firm and service providers acting on the Firm's behalf to communicate with you at that number regarding your inquiry, potential case, intake process, appointments, requested information, and, if you become a client, communications relating to your legal matter.
Communications may be transmitted using automated technology or a web-based messaging platform.
Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of hiring Powell Law Firm or receiving legal services from the Firm.
Types of Messages
Depending upon your interaction with the Firm, messages may include:
- Responses to your request for information;
- Intake questions;
- Requests for documents or additional information;
- Appointment confirmations and reminders;
- Follow-up regarding an incomplete inquiry;
- Notifications concerning documents requiring review or signature;
- Communications concerning your potential or active legal matter; and
- Other communications reasonably related to your relationship or requested interaction with the Firm.
Message Frequency and Charges
Message frequency will vary depending upon your interaction with the Firm.
Message and data rates may apply depending upon your wireless carrier and mobile service plan. Powell Law Firm does not charge you for receiving text messages from the Firm, but your wireless carrier may impose charges.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Opting Out
You may withdraw your consent to receive text messages at any time.
You may reply STOP to a Firm text message to request that text communications cease. We may also recognize other language that reasonably communicates your request to stop receiving text messages.
After receiving an opt-out request, we may send a one-time message confirming your request.
Opting out of text messaging does not terminate an attorney-client relationship, if one exists, and does not prevent the Firm from communicating with you through other appropriate methods when necessary or permitted by law.
You may contact the Firm if you wish to update your communication preferences.
Help
You may reply HELP to a Firm text message for assistance or contact Powell Law Firm using the contact information provided on our website.
Your Responsibilities
By providing a mobile number, you represent that you are authorized to receive communications at that number.
If your telephone number changes or is reassigned, you should promptly notify the Firm.
You should not use text messaging for emergencies or matters requiring immediate attention. If you believe you are experiencing an emergency, contact the appropriate emergency service.
7. Attorney Advertising and Solicitation
Communications from Powell Law Firm are intended to comply with applicable laws and rules governing attorney advertising, solicitation, and professional conduct.
Nothing contained in these Terms authorizes the Firm, its attorneys, employees, agents, vendors, or technology providers to communicate with prospective clients in a manner prohibited by applicable law or the Missouri Rules of Professional Conduct.
The Firm's use of automated technology, text messaging, online intake systems, or other communication tools does not alter its professional obligations as a law firm.
8. Third-Party Technology Providers
Powell Law Firm may use third-party technology providers to operate portions of its website, intake process, messaging services, document systems, scheduling systems, analytics tools, or other Services.
When appropriate, information you provide may be processed by these providers on the Firm's behalf for purposes related to providing the Services.
Use of third-party technology does not authorize those providers to provide legal advice or establish an attorney-client relationship with you.
Third-party services may also be subject to their own privacy policies and terms.
9. Electronic Communications Are Not Guaranteed to Be Secure
Electronic communications involve risks beyond the Firm's complete control.
Although Powell Law Firm uses reasonable safeguards appropriate to the information and systems involved, no website, email system, text messaging service, mobile network, or Internet-based communication platform can be guaranteed to be completely secure, continuously available, or error-free.
You acknowledge that electronic communications may be delayed, misdirected, intercepted, unavailable, or affected by circumstances outside the Firm's control.
If information is particularly sensitive, you may contact the Firm to discuss an alternative method of communication.
10. Medical and Health Information
Personal injury inquiries may require prospective clients to provide information concerning injuries, medical treatment, medical providers, insurance, or related health information.
Information you voluntarily provide through the Firm's intake systems may be used to evaluate your potential legal matter and, if representation is established, to provide legal services.
Powell Law Firm's receipt of medical or health-related information does not make the Firm a healthcare provider and does not mean that every health-related communication or record transmitted to the Firm is governed by HIPAA.
Where applicable, the Firm and its service providers will handle protected or confidential information in accordance with applicable legal and professional obligations.
11. Conflicts of Interest
Submission of information through the Services does not mean that Powell Law Firm is able to represent you.
Before accepting a matter, the Firm may need to determine whether representation would create a conflict of interest or otherwise be inappropriate.
You should not interpret an automated response, text message, intake conversation, scheduling confirmation, or preliminary discussion as confirmation that the Firm has completed its conflict review or accepted your case.
12. No Guarantee of Response or Case Acceptance
The Firm attempts to respond promptly to inquiries but does not guarantee that every inquiry will receive an immediate response.
Automated acknowledgments or messages indicating that information has been received do not constitute acceptance of your case.
If you have a time-sensitive legal matter, you should not rely exclusively on electronic submission or messaging to protect your rights.
13. Prohibited Uses
You agree not to use the Services to:
- Violate applicable law;
- Submit information you know to be materially false or fraudulent;
- Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity;
- Harass, threaten, abuse, or unlawfully interfere with another person;
- Transmit malware, viruses, malicious code, or other harmful technology;
- Attempt to obtain unauthorized access to the Firm's systems or accounts;
- Interfere with the security or operation of the Services;
- Scrape, harvest, or systematically extract information from the website through unauthorized automated means;
- Infringe the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights of another person; or
- Use the Services for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose.
14. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise indicated, the website and its original content, design, text, graphics, logos, photographs, videos, trademarks, service marks, and other materials are owned by or licensed to Powell Law Firm and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
You may access website content for your personal, noncommercial use.
You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, republish, sell, exploit, or create derivative works from protected Firm content without permission except as permitted by law.
15. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services.
Powell Law Firm does not control those websites and is not responsible for their content, availability, privacy practices, security, or terms.
The inclusion of a link does not necessarily constitute endorsement of the third party or its services.
16. Availability of Services
The Firm may modify, suspend, discontinue, or restrict portions of the website or Services at any time.
We do not guarantee that the Services will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
17. Disclaimer
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE WEBSITE AND ONLINE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS.
POWELL LAW FIRM DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES REGARDING THE OPERATION OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE AND ONLINE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT SUCH WARRANTIES CANNOT LAWFULLY BE DISCLAIMED.
Nothing in this section limits professional duties that Powell Law Firm owes to a client once an attorney-client relationship has been established.
18. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Powell Law Firm will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising solely from your inability to access or use the public website or online intake technology.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to waive, disclaim, or limit any duty or liability that cannot lawfully be waived or limited, including professional obligations arising from an attorney-client relationship.
19. Privacy
Our collection and use of personal information through the Services are described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.
Please review the Privacy Policy before submitting personal information through the Services.
20. Changes to These Terms
Powell Law Firm may revise these Terms periodically to reflect changes to its Services, technology, business practices, or applicable legal requirements.
The current version will be posted on our website with an updated “Last Updated” date.
Your continued use of the public website after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of those Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.
21. Governing Law
These Terms and your use of the Services are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where federal law applies.
Any dispute concerning these Terms that may properly be subject to a contractual venue provision shall be brought in an appropriate state or federal court located in Missouri, subject to applicable law.
Nothing in this provision changes the law governing an attorney-client relationship or any legal matter for which Powell Law Firm has agreed to provide representation.
22. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.
23. No Waiver
Failure by Powell Law Firm to enforce any provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that provision or any other provision.
24. Entire Agreement Regarding Website Use
These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the agreement between you and Powell Law Firm concerning your use of the public website and online intake Services.
These Terms do not replace or modify any engagement agreement, fee agreement, settlement authorization, representation agreement, or other agreement entered into between Powell Law Firm and an actual client.
If there is a conflict between these Terms and an executed client representation agreement concerning the Firm's legal representation of a client, the applicable representation agreement controls with respect to the representation.
25. Contact Us
Questions concerning these Terms, the Firm's electronic communications, or your communication preferences may be directed to:
The Powell Law Firm, LLC
St. Louis, Missouri
9841 Clayton Road., St. Louis, MO 63124
(314) 293-3777