These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern the use of the Lawyer Office platform: the website https://lawyeroffice.me, the web application and the Lawyer Office apps for Android and iOS (together, the "Service"), provided by Lawyer Office ("we", "us"). By creating an office, signing in or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you accept them on behalf of a law office, you confirm that you are authorised to bind it.
1. The Service
Lawyer Office is an online practice management tool for law offices. It lets an office ("Office") manage clients, lawsuits, hearings, appointments, tasks, documents, fees and payments, with its team, on the web and on mobile devices. We may improve, change or add features over time. We will not remove an essential feature during a paid subscription period without offering a reasonable alternative.
2. Offices and user accounts
- Each Office has an owner who manages its users, roles and permissions. The Office is responsible for all activity under its users' accounts.
- The information given when the Office is created (name, bar number, contact details) must be accurate and kept up to date.
- Users must keep their passwords, PINs and recovery codes confidential, and must inform the Office owner, and us, of any unauthorised use without delay.
- Accounts are personal: a user account must not be shared between several people.
3. Free trial
A new Office can use the Service free of charge for 30 days. At the end of the trial, a subscription is needed to keep creating and changing data. Data entered during the trial is kept if the Office subscribes.
4. Subscription, prices and payment
- The Service is billed per Office, as a yearly subscription. The current price is $150 per Office per year, unless another price was agreed in writing.
- Payment can be made in cash, by bank transfer, by cheque, through OMT or Whish Money, or online by card through Stripe. A subscription is extended once the payment is received and recorded.
- A renewal paid before the end date starts at the end of the current period, so no paid time is lost.
- We may change prices for future periods. A new price applies only from the next renewal, and we announce it at least 30 days in advance.
- Prices do not include taxes or bank and transfer fees, which are borne by the Office where applicable.
- Subscription fees are not refundable, in whole or in part, except where required by law or where we terminate the Service without cause (see section 12).
5. End of the subscription
If a subscription is not renewed, the Office has a grace period of 7 days with full access. After that the Office becomes read-only: its users can still sign in, consult, print and export their data, but cannot create or change records. Renewing restores full access immediately. Data is kept as described in our Privacy Policy.
6. Office Data
- The data an Office enters in the Service ("Office Data") remains the property of the Office. We claim no ownership over it.
- The Office gives us the right to host, copy, process and display Office Data only as needed to provide, secure and support the Service.
- The Office is responsible for the lawfulness of the Office Data, for having the right to record its clients' information, and for respecting professional secrecy and the rules of its bar association within its own team.
- We handle Office Data as a processor, as described in the Privacy Policy, and keep it confidential. Our staff access it only when necessary to provide support requested by the Office, to ensure security, or to comply with the law.
- The Office can export its clients to Excel and print its statements and lists at any time. On request, we provide a full export of the Office Data.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or to store content that you have no right to keep;
- try to access another Office's data, test the security of the Service without our written permission, or bypass its limits and protections;
- disrupt the Service, overload it, or use automated means to access it other than the official apps and the documented API;
- resell, rent or make the Service available to third parties outside your Office;
- copy, decompile or reverse engineer the Service, except where the law expressly allows it.
8. Third-party services
Some features rely on third-party services chosen by the Office, such as Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Sign-In and Stripe. Their use is also subject to the terms of those providers. We are not responsible for their availability or for changes they make, but we will make reasonable efforts to adapt the Service when they change.
9. Availability, backups and support
- We make reasonable efforts to keep the Service available at all times, apart from planned maintenance, which we try to carry out outside office hours. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.
- We make daily backups of the Office databases. The Office remains free to keep its own exports.
- Support is provided by phone, WhatsApp and e-mail at the contact details below.
10. Professional responsibility
The Service is a management tool. It does not provide legal advice. Reminders, notifications and calendars are an aid and do not replace the lawyer's own diligence: the Office remains responsible for checking hearing dates, deadlines and time limits, and for the content of its files and documents. Notifications depend on devices, networks and third-party services, and may be delayed or not delivered.
11. Intellectual property
The Service, its software, design, logos and content, apart from Office Data, belong to Lawyer Office or its licensors. We grant the Office and its users a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service during the subscription, for the needs of the Office.
12. Suspension and termination
- The Office can stop using the Service at any time by not renewing it, or ask us to close its account (see the Privacy Policy for the deletion of data).
- We may suspend an Office or a user immediately in case of a serious breach of these Terms, a security threat, or a request from a competent authority. Where possible, we warn the Office first and give it time to remedy the breach.
- We may end the Service for all Offices with at least 90 days' notice. In that case, we refund the unused part of prepaid subscriptions and give each Office time to export its data.
13. Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect losses such as loss of profit, loss of clients, or loss of a chance, nor for damage caused by the Office's own use of the Service, by its users, or by third-party services. In any case, our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amounts paid by the Office for the Service during the twelve months before the event that caused the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud or gross negligence.
14. Indemnity
The Office agrees to indemnify us against claims by third parties arising from Office Data it recorded unlawfully or from its breach of these Terms.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. We inform Office owners of important changes at least 30 days before they take effect. If the Office does not accept them, it can stop using the Service before that date. Continuing to use the Service after that date means accepting the new Terms.
16. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Lebanon. We will first try to settle any dispute amicably. If no solution is found within 30 days, the dispute will be submitted to the competent courts of Beirut.
17. Contact
Lawyer Office: [email protected], phone and WhatsApp +961 71 250 928.