Welcome to Juris Référence!

These Terms and Conditions of Use for Registered Lawyers (the "Terms" ) constitute an agreement pertaining to the use of the website found at www.jurisreference.ca or at any other address to which it could be added or by which it could be substituted (the "Site" ). In particular, these Terms govern the relationship between the owner and operator of the Site, Juris, Inc. ( "Juris Référence" , "we" , or "us" ) and you, as a lawyer duly registered on the Site (the "Lawyer(s)" or "you" ) for the use of the Site, including that of various functionalities and related services at your disposal on the Site, such as a profile page where you can display your information, etc. (the "Service" ).

By using this Site, you consent to all the terms of use provided herein and in the Privacy Policy displayed on the Site ( www.jurisreference.ca). You also acknowledge that you have read and understand the Terms and the Privacy Policy.

Juris Référence has discretion to amend said Terms and Conditions as well as any policies or Guidelines displayed on this Site at any time. By using this Site after the display of any amendment, you agree to the latter. You are responsible for duly verifying any amendments made to any Terms and Conditions, policies or guidelines.

First and foremost, a few things must be specified...

What Juris Référence is :

A tool that provides a referral service, as offered by our partner regional bars, to be available online. Juris Référence is entirely free of use for any user looking to obtain legal counsel. There are no hidden fees and no banking information is required at any time.

What Juris Référence isn’t :

A lawyer recommendation service.

Juris Référence never intervenes in the selection of any particular Counsel made by any User, or in the process leading up to said selection, except where the availability of computer-based tools that apply automatically and consistently to all Users is concerned. Likewise, Juris Référence never intervenes in decisions whether to accept or not to accept a mandate, in the drafting of Service offers made by Counsel or in the process leading up to said selection, except where the availability of computer-based tools that apply automatically and consistently to all registered Counsel is concerned.

Juris Référence shall never intervene in any contractual relationship entered into between Counsel and his or her client following use of the Service. Mandates issued by Users to Counsel shall not fall within the Services provided by Juris Référence and Juris Référence shall not in any way be liable therefor.

Juris Référence is not a law firm and does not offer any legal services or legal opinion of any kind whatsoever.

1. Registration process and the creation of a customer account

1.1 Qualifications for membership in the Service: To be eligible for membership in the Service, you must be a practicing lawyer and be duly registered on the Tableau de l’Ordre du Barreau du Québec (Québec Roll of the Order of Advocates) you must not be subject to any judgment or be subject to any disciplinary measure or action (current or past) liable to impair or prejudice your license to practice, the integrity of your legal services and/or public safety.

1.2 : Any lawyer who is a member of the Barreau du Québec can register to the Service by completing the registration form and consenting to the terms of use and privacy policy.

1.3 : Any lawyer who registers to the Service must indicate, on the registration form, the fields of law for which they represent that they are competent and ready to provide counsel. Participation to the Service is a privilege, not a way to develop skills and knowledge.

1.4 : Any Lawyer who registers to the Service commits to take in, in the shortest delay possible, any client whose issue is related to the fields of expertise they indicated on the form. They also agree to receive a maximum fee of $30 for a half-hour consultation.

1.5 : Juris Référence will deny registration to, or bar from the Service, any Lawyer who becomes incompetent in their profession

1.6 : Any Lawyer may withdraw or modify their registration to the Service by providing Juris Référence with a written notice.

1.7 Mandatory information: Subscription to the Service is available only following registration with Juris Référence and after such registration was accepted. To register and create a client account on the Site, you must, using the functionalities available on the Site, provide us with the following mandatory information:

• i. Your email address
• ii. A confidential password of your choosing
• iii. Your name(s) and given name(s) (and occupational qualification(s) optional)
• iv. The name of your firm
• v. Your full business address
• vi. Your phone and fax numbers

1.8 Verification of your registration to the Roll of Order: After you have finished your registration on the Site, Juris Référence will check the status of your registration to the Roll of Order with the Barreau du Québec. If you are not a member of the Barreau du Québec, or if you have a disciplinary record, Juris Référence will have the right to cancel your registration and transaction. In any other case, you will have to fill in the mandatory and optional (but very useful and relevant) information fields in your profile.

1.9 : Juris Référence reserves the right to decline a lawyer's registration request or, if that lawyer is already registered to the Service, to deny them clients or even to withdraw their access to the Service for any reason deemed sufficiently serious, including the following:

• i. the lawyer is involved in a penal or criminal action
• ii. the lawyer is the subject of a complaint from the Syndic
• iii. the lawyer's behaviour could jeopardize public safety or the image of the profession

1.10 Approval of the registration request:Your registration will be considered approved by Juris Référence if your mandatory information record is completed, your registration to the Roll of Order confirmed, and your disciplinary record checked.

1.11 Limit of one subscription per Lawyer: Please note that s subscription to the Service is only valid for the Lawyers who are registered on the Site, and that no substitution or agglomeration of lawyers and no transfers are allowed, except in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.5 of these Terms.

1.12 Optional additional information: To complete your profile, you will have the option to upload a picture of yourself and to provide any other relevant information such as your fields of practice, your education, your diplomas, the year of your call to the Barreau, your languages (written and spoken), the number of lawyers at your firm, the addresses of your website, Facebook page, Twitter page, etc., your biographical notes, your publications, your accomplishments, etc.

Since the minimum criteria for the attribution of the service requests to the Lawyers are the fields of practice/competence indicated on their profiles, if you have not chosen (ticked) any field of practice while creating your profile, you will not be attributed any request.

1.13 Public nature of the information: All the information entered in your client account is accessible to the Users of the Site, and to Juris Référence, for administrative purposes only. You consent and acknowledge that this information may be made available to the Users on the Site.

2. Processing of the User Service Requests and Lawyer Service Offers

2.1 User service requests ¹ : As soon as a User completes their registration, their legal service request, which includes all the relevant information they have provided (the "Request"), is attributed automatically and electronically to the Lawyers whose profile information fits the criteria of the Request (including region/city, field of law, company or individual, number of employees, revenues/turnover, etc.). Please note that Juris Référence does not get involved in the preparation of the User Requests or their content and that it is the responsibility of the Lawyers receiving such Requests to assess their validity and accuracy.

It is important to note that Juris Référence is not involved in preparing or in determining the contents of Requests made by Users and that Counsel to whom such Requests are made are responsible for assessing the validity and accuracy thereof.

At this stage in the process, none of User’s personal or identifying information shall be disclosed to Counsel to whom User’s Request is sent.

2.2 Lawyer service offers²: Upon reception of a User Request, any available and interested Lawyer can, using the relevant functionality in their client account, accept that Request and obtain the User's contact information.

The User can consult the profile(s) of the interested Lawyer(s) using the relevant functionalities in their User account.

2.3 The fundamental obligation to inform Juris Référence of the acceptance of a User mandate. It is fundamental that any Lawyer who provides legal services to a User or obtains a mandate to provide such services to a User following the use of the Service informs Juris Référence immediately or, at the latest, within the following fifteen (15) days, through the means at their disposal in their client account or by any other means indicated by Juris Référence.

3. Lawyer Commitments

3.1 Member in good standing of the Tableau de l’Ordre du Barreau du Québec (Québec Roll of the Order of Advocates): Counsel undertake always to maintain their license to practice in the Province of Quebec. Should they be suspended or disbarred or if he is the subject of any disciplinary measures, Counsel shall forthwith cease using the Service and close their Customer Account and hereby undertake to notify in such case any and all User(s) to whom they have sent any Offer still firm or standing.

3.2 Juris Référence conducts regular checks with the Barreau du Québec to validate the continued registration of the registered Lawyers. The client account of any disbarred, suspended, or otherwise disciplined Lawyer will be closed, with or without notice, at our own discretion, and any pending Request sent to that Lawyer will be cancelled. Juris Référence will not be held liable for the maintenance of a Lawyer's registration based on any false information obtained of good faith on that matter.

3.3 Ethical practice: Counsel registered on the Site undertake to abide by business practices consistent with all statutes, regulations, by-laws and general ethical rules in respect of the profession of counsel and their field of practice.

3.4 Confidentiality: Counsel undertakes to maintain the confidentiality of any information received and/or exchanged with User in connection with the Service, regardless of the existence of any counsel-client relationship or of any mandate, and to use said information only in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. Counsel agrees to make every reasonable effort to cooperate with Juris Référence should any third party attempt to unjustifiably force disclosure of said information.

3.5 No substitution: The Lawyer consents not to transfer the business of Users and leads contacted through the Service to any other Lawyer of their own firm or of any other firm, unless 1) the Lawyer remains responsible for the client and ensures all communications with them; or 2) the Lawyer does not receive any referral fees for such transfer, the transfer is made in the client's best interest and the transfer is not made in order to bypass registration to the Service by the lawyer and/or law firm benefiting from the transfer.

4. Accuracy of information

4.1 Accuracy and credibility of information and data: Any information sent, registered, published or displayed on the Site or by means of the Site, shall be accurate as far as you know. Any personal and/or identifying data relating to you or relating to your firm provided when you registered and when your Customer Account was established shall be valid complete and up to date.

4.2 Subsequent amendment of information in Customer Account: You shall always be entitled to amend your password in accordance with the procedure established for such purpose, and with the information registered in your Customer Account. You shall be in charge of updating any information and any particular displayed on the Site. You more particularly undertake to keep up your e-mail address active for the entire duration of your operation of the Site. Should you change your address, you shall promptly effect your change of address in your Customer Account.

4.3 Erratic information or data: Should there be any reasonable grounds to believe that any Required Information registered in your profile or that any information you have sent, provided, registered, downloaded or displayed on the Site or by means of the Site is not accurate, valid, complete or up to date, as the case may be, Juris Référence shall always be entitled to deny you access to the Site or to some of its features, interrupt or to abort your right to use the Service or to close your Customer Account. However, Juris Référence is under no obligation to ascertain that any information and data you send is accurate, valid or useful.

5. Unlawful, prohibited or unauthorized conduct

5.1 Unlawful, prohibited or unauthorized conduct: Whenever you use the Site or any Service offered on the Site, you thereby undertake to refrain from performing and from authorizing the following conduct :

5.1.1 Disclosing your password to any third party, except to persons under your immediate supervision in the performance of your duties;

5.1.2 Displaying, linking or otherwise sending out or transmitting any false or misleading, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harmful, injurious, libelous, defamatory, slanderous, pornographic or indecent information, in contravention of any third-party right or conveying illegal content in any other form;

5.1.3 Sending any frivolous Offer intended solely to cause a waste of time or to disrupt;

5.1.4 Engaging in activities involving unfair competition and/or intended to secure any undue advantage over Users of the Service and/or over other counsel;

5.1.5 Using the Service so as to create a semblance of breach or irregularity likely to affect Users and/or other counsel and/or Juris Référence’s legitimate business interests;

5.1.6 Displaying, linking or otherwise sending out or transmitting any information or claim in respect of drugs, drug products, surgeries or treatments for sexual, recreational or non essentially therapeutic purposes;

5.1.7 Hiding the source of any information sent;

5.1.8 Falsely personating any other individual or of any other entity or making misrepresentations in respect of any affiliation with any individual or entity;

5.1.9 Displaying or sending any information containing viruses, files or codes designed to interrupt, destroy, damage, corrupt or collapse features for this Site or for any site, computer or computer equipment directly or indirectly linked thereto;

5.1.10 Promoting the sale of products and/or services that are pirated or deemed substandard according to Canadian legislation.

6. Intellectual property

6.1 Juris Référence’s intellectual property: The contents of the Site and any Service offered on the Site, the design, the page layout, page setup and pagination of the Site as well as any trademarks displayed on the Site are owned by Juris Référence and/or its partners and are protected by copyright, trademark, unfair competition legislation and by any other applicable legislation, as the case may be, and all or any part thereof shall not be copied or forwarded unless expressly authorized by Juris Référence.

6.2 Limited Site user license: You are hereby authorized to use this Site within the limits expressly contemplated by these Terms and Conditions. You shall not be entitled to use this Site for any other purpose without first obtaining Juris Référence’s express written consent. On a non-restrictive basis, in the absence of said written consent, you shall not be entitled to change, duplicate, distribute, forward, display, publish, license, assign, transfer or sell any contents, data, software, products or services obtained on this Site, or create any works derived therefrom.

6.3 Transmission of content: Whenever you send, download or display any content in connection with any use made of the Service, whether it be text, photographs, sound or image files, or other forms of content (hereinafter referred to as « Content »), you are totally liable with respect to said Content. You represent that you are the originator of said Content and rightful holder of all rights therein, or else you represent that you have secured any and all required authorizations in due form allowing you to use said Content in accordance herewith.

Please note that in some instances, several authorizations may be required. For instance, should photographs be concerned, you shall secure permission from the holder of the photography copyright as well as from the person appearing on the photograph. If you are not familiar with the rules respecting content protection we advise you to ask counsel specializing in such matters for information.

6.4 Licence d’utilisation de votre Contenu : Vous concédez à Juris Référence une licence non exclusive d’utilisation, dans le cadre du Service, de tout Contenu téléchargé, affiché ou transmis par vous sur le Site ou par l’intermédiaire du Site, en conformité avec les Modalités prévues aux présentes, sans restriction territoriale, et ce, pour la durée de votre inscription.

7. Warranties and warranty limitations

7.1 Undertakings given by Juris Référence respecting the Site and the quality of Service: Juris Référence undertakes to do its best to ensure proper Site operating performance and continuous accessibility to its Service. Juris Référence undertakes to do its best and to use its best efforts in order to offer its clients a wide-ranging Service that satisfies their needs.

7.2 Warranty limitations respecting Service performance: Under no circumstances does Juris Référence warrant that the Site and/or the Services will come up to all of Service users’ expectations and more particularly that Counsel will find any mandates and/or clients, or that Users will find the Counsel they are looking for. Under no circumstances will Juris Référence be held liable with respect to the outcome of cases Counsel or Users have obtained by using the Service.

7.3 Warranty limitations respecting the Site: Considering the potential for instability on the Internet network and as permitted by law and by any applicable regulation, Juris Référence shall not be liable in any way for the performance of the Site from a technical and/or business point of view. Juris Référence does not pledge that services provided on the Site will be uninterrupted, safe or free from any error and that it will be possible to correct any defect found in any feature offered or in any software used. You alone will be responsible for any damage caused to your computer and for any data loss resulting from the downloading of any materials by means of the Site.

7.4 Limitation of liability in the event of damage: As permitted by law and by any applicable regulation, Juris Référence shall on no account be liable for any damage, whether directly or indirectly resulting from any use made or from any inability to use the Site and/or the Service, including any damage connected to any loss of profit, loss of means or potential, to any Service interruption or to loss of data, whether or not Juris Référence is notified of any likelihood thereof.

7.5 Warranty limitations respecting Contents of others: Juris Référence shall on no account be liable in any way for any Content displayed, sent or otherwise conveyed, on the Site or by means of the Site, by Counsel, Users, associates or third parties.

7.6 Warranty limitation respecting the provision of mandates, services and legal opinion: Juris Référence shall not in any way take part in the selection of Counsel by User, in User’s decision to entrust Counsel with any mandate or in Counsel’s decision to accept or not to accept any mandate from User. Juris Référence shall under no circumstances be held liable in any way whatsoever with respect to such selections and decisions or with respect to any consequences of any such selections and decisions made by Users and by Counsel.

Likewise, Juris Référence shall not be held liable with respect to the quality of any offers made by Counsel or with respect to any legal services rendered by any Counsel to any User as a result of any use of the Service, Counsel being fully accountable therefor.

Juris Référence is not a law firm and does not offer any legal service or legal advice of any kind through the Site. Any legal advice that is published on or through the Site, if any, is the sole responsibility of its author and Juris Référence will not be held liable in any manner for such legal advice. If, however, Juris Référence is notified or has reasonable reasons to believe that a legal advice or other legal document that is false, misleading, unlawful or threatening to the rights of others is displayed on or transmitted through the Site, Juris Référence reserves the right, without prior notice and at its own discretion, to remove such advice or document and/or to close the account of the Lawyer responsible for that Content.

8. Sanctions and indemnities in the event of contravention

8.1 Penalties for failure to comply: Juris Référence reserves the right, at its own discretion, to temporarily or permanently suspend your access to the Site and/or the Service or to certain functionalities, and to take any other measure deemed appropriate under the circumstances should Juris Référence have good reasons to believe that you have failed to conform to any of your obligations herein. Those measures can include, without being limited to, the termination of your registration and client account and the transmission of any illegal content to the competent authorities. Without any obligation, Juris Référence reserves the right to notify you of your failure by email or other means of communication and to give you the opportunity to resolve the issue.

8.2 Deletion of information: Juris Référence performs regular backups of its systems and the files they contain. You accept that Juris Référence may delete the information or files saved on the servers linked to your client account should you fail to comply with these Terms.

8.3 Indemnification: You accept to indemnify and hold harmless Juris Référence and to take up the defence of Juris Référence, its employees, agents, right-holders, representatives and/or business partners for any damage, loss or expense (including their lawyers' reasonable fees) that they could have experienced from your failure to meet your obligations herein in the case of any claim, legal action or request for settlement on the basis of the violation of copyrights, the application of the law or applicable agreements, or any harm to the rights of others, including any monetary damage or other damage resulting from an illegal, prohibited or forbidden act described herein.

8.4 Notification of third party faults : You also undertake to notify and to cooperate with Juris Référence in the event that you should find out about any unlawful or unauthorized act provided for hereunder.

9. Juris Référence’S liability in regard to external sites

9.1 Links to external sites: Juris Référence is not responsible for the content of other websites accessible through links included on the Site, including websites owned by Lawyers registered on the Site (the "Linked sites"), since those Sites were not created by Juris Référence and are not under its control.

9.2 Hyperlinks to Site : You cannot create any hyperlink to said Site or use said Site in association with any third party trademark in such a way as to let people believe that said Site is endorsed or associated with the present Site or with Juris Référence without first obtaining Juris Référence’s express written authorization. Juris Référence reserves the right to deny you the use of any hyperlink to the present Site where the context in which said hyperlink is used has any adverse effect on Juris Référence’s honour, reputation or business interests.

10. Les lois et la juridiction applicables

These Terms shall be governed, applied, and construed in accordance with the laws of the province of Québec. The parties agree that the courts of the district of Québec, Quebec, Canada, shall have jurisdiction over any dispute, claim or legal action pertaining to these Terms.

11. Information on complaints or abuses

All complaints or abuses noticed on Juris Référence’s Site or servers shall be sent by email or to the following address :

Juris Concept

2700, rue Jean-Perrin, bur. 400

Québec (Québec), CA

G2C 1X8

Welcome to Juris Référence!

You are about to enter into a binding agreement. Accordingly, we ask you to read these terms and conditions carefully before you use the site and/or you subscribe to the Juris Référence service.

Les présents « Termes et conditions d’utilisation par les usagers » (ci-après : les « Modalités ») constituent une entente applicable à l’utilisation du site situé à l’adresse URL www.jurisreference.ca ou à toute autre adresse pouvant lui être ajoutée ou substituée (ci-après : le « Site »). Plus particulièrement, ces Modalités s’appliquent à la relation entre le propriétaire et exploitant du Site, Juris Concept (ci-après : « Juris Référence » ou « nous ») et vous, en tant que visiteur ou en tant qu’usager dûment inscrit sur le Site, selon le cas (ci-après : l’ (les) « Usager(s) », ou « vous »), à l’égard de l’utilisation du Site et du service d’assistance à la sélection d’un avocat dûment inscrit sur le Site (ci-après : l’ (les) « Avocat(s) »), y compris les diverses fonctionnalités et services connexes qui sont mis à votre disposition sur le Site (ci-après : le « Service »).

The moment you use the Site, you immediately agree to abide by all of the Terms and Conditions provided for herein and also in the Privacy Policy displayed on the Site, and acknowledge that you have read and that you understand same.

It is important to understand that Juris Référence has discretion to amend said Terms and Conditions as well as any policies or Guidelines displayed on this Site at any time. By using this Site after the display of any amendment, you agree to the latter. You are responsible for duly verifying any amendments made to any Terms and Conditions, policies or guidelines. Nevertheless, to help you perform this task, we will clearly display the dates on which said amendments are to be made in a space earmarked for such purpose on the Site.

First and foremost, a few things must be specified...

What Juris Référence is :

With Juris Référence you have a modern, simple, user-friendly tool that wil make it easier for you to search for qualified counsel to meet your requirements in legal matters, the whole at no cost to you.

En bref, Juris Référence vous procure un accès privilégié aux informations affichées dans les profils des Avocats sur le Site et met à votre disposition un processus innovateur qui vous assiste vers l’identification et la prise de contact avec un Avocat, dans un environnement sécuritaire.

To help match you with Counsel most likely to resolve your particular case, Juris Référence uses computer-based standardized techniques developed according to objective tests consistently applied to all Counsel and Users. However, it is important for people to understand that Users are solely and fully responsible for selecting the Counsel they wish to commission. Likewise, Counsel are solely and fully responsible for deciding whether or not to accept commissions from registered Users.

What Juris Référence isn’t :

A lawyer recommendation service.

Juris Référence never intervenes in the selection of any particular Counsel, or in the process leading up to said selection, except where the availability of computer-based tools that apply automatically and consistently to all Users is concerned. Likewise, Juris Référence never intervenes in decisions whether to accept or not to accept a mandate, in the drafting of Service offers made by Counsel or in the process leading up to said selection, except where the availability of computer-based tools that apply automatically and consistently to all Counsel is concerned.

Juris Référence shall never intervene in any contractual relationship entered into between Counsel and his or her client following use of the Service. Any mandate issued by User to Counsel does not fall within the Service provided by Juris Référence and Juris Référence shall not in any way be liable therefor.

Juris Référence is not a law firm and does not offer any legal services or legal opinion of any kind whatsoever.

1. Le processus d’inscription en cinq(5) étapes :

1.1 L’inscription de votre demande : Afin de vous inscrire et d’accéder au Service offert par Juris Référence, à l’aide des fonctionnalités informatisées affichées sur le Site, vous devez procéder aux cinq (5) étapes suivantes :

Step 1 – Mention the geographical location (region/city) in which you wish to receive legal services;

Step 2 – Specify any area(s) of law (e.g. administrative, civil, commercial, criminal, immigration) to which the services you seek to obtain apply;

Step 3 – Specify any sub-field(s) of law (e.g. permit request, latent defect, trademarks, criminal harassment, sponsorship) to which said services apply;

Étape 4 - Répondre au QUESTIONNAIRE Juris Référence sur les services juridiques recherchés et le type de mandat à confier à un Avocat;

This questionnaire offers questions used to describe the situation you wish to address and the type of legal services you are looking for. Careful! If you wish to preserve your anonymity and to keep any information relating to your particular situation confidential at this stage, it is essential that you avoid entering in your case description anything that might directly or indirectly give away your identity.

Étape 5 - Terminer l’inscription de votre demande par la création de votre compte usager sur le Site, tel que détaillé à l’article 2 des présentes Modalités. Une fois inscrit, vous aurez accès à toutes les fonctionnalités et services offerts sur le Site.

The process for posting your request , the creation of your User Account and any use you make of the Site and of the Service are totally free of charge.

2. Creating a user account

2.1 Identifying and non-identifying information : In order to establish your User Account, you must provide the following identifying information :

• i. Your E-Mail address;
• ii. A confidential password of your choosing;
• iii. Your full name(s);
• iv. Your occupation;
• v. Whether you are acting for or on behalf of any firm :
  • a. The firm’s name
  • b. Your title;
• vi. Your full address or, as the case may be, that of the firm;
• vii. Your telephone and fax numbers;

2.2 Confidentialité des renseignements : Tous les renseignements personnels et/ou identitaires inscrits dans votre compte usager ne seront accessibles que par vous-même, par Juris Référence ainsi que par l'avocat sélectionné par le service de référence.

3. Traitement des demandes de service – usagers et des offres de service des avocats

3.1 Demande de service des Usagers : Dès que votre inscription est complétée, votre demande de service juridique, qui contient les informations fournies au cours des étapes 1 à 4 du processus d’inscription (ci-après : votre « Demande »), est distribuée de façon automatique et informatisée aux Avocats qui répondent aux critères de sélection applicables en fonction du contenu de votre Demande (notamment, région/ville, domaine du droit).

Users using this Site or any Service provided thereon agree and acknowledge that Counsel (and the Site's administrators and representatives) receiving their request and any other Counsel belonging to said Counsel’s firm shall not be held to be disqualified to act on behalf of clients with interests competing with or contrary to said Users having sent said request even where Counsel receives any information possibly prejudicial to said Users in any proceeding.Users acknowledge that use of the Site or of the Service thereon shall be subject to the waiver described in this paragraph, said waiver being reasonable and necessary so as to enable Counsel to receive any Request. Users concerned with respect to said waiver shall be entitled to limit any information contained in their Request and/or to decline to use the Service in connection with a particular file.

3.2 Offres de service des Avocats : À la réception de votre Demande, tout Avocat disponible et intéressé par votre cas peut, dans un délai maximum de trois (3) jours ou dans un délai inférieur, en utilisant la fonctionnalité prévue à cette fin dans son compte client, vous transmettre une confirmation de son intérêt pour votre Demande (ci-après : son « Offre »), en vue de son affichage dans l’espace prévu à cette fin dans votre compte usager.

3.4 Annulation d’une Demande : L’Usager peut mettre fin à sa Demande de service en tout temps avant le terme et/ou l'acceptation par un avocat en utilisant la fonctionnalité prévue à cette fin dans son compte usager. Le cas échéant, tout Avocat concerné par cette Demande sera immédiatement avisé de son annulation.

Should the period provided for in the Request mature without said Request being proceeded with by any Counsel affected thereby or by User acting personally, said Request shall be automatically canceled upon the expiry of the term.

3.5 Soumission d’une nouvelle Demande : Pour soumettre une nouvelle Demande, vous devez simplement accéder à votre compte usager et procéder aux étapes 1 à 5 du processus d’inscription et tous en seront avisés.

4. Accuracy of information and data

4.1 Accuracy and credibility of information and intelligence data: Any information that you send, provide, register, download or display on the Site or that you send by means of the Site, shall be accurate, to the best of your knowledge, and the Required Information provided when your Customer Account was created shall be valid, complete and up to date.

4.2 Subsequent amendment of Information in User Account : You shall always be entitled to amend your password in accordance with the procedure established for such purpose, as well as the information registered in your User Account. You more particularly undertake to keep up your e-mail address active for the entire duration of your use of the Site in your capacity as User. Should you change your address, you shall promptly effect your change of address in your Customer Account.

4.3 Erratic Information or intelligence data : Should there be any reasonable grounds to believe that you have registered, published or broadcast any inaccurate information on the Site or by means of the Site and/or that any information registered in your User Account is inaccurate, invalid, incomplete or is not up to date, Juris Référence shall always be entitled to deny you access to the Site or to some of its features, to suspend your right to use the Service or to close your Customer Account. However, Juris Référence shall be under no obligation to ascertain that any information and/or Personal Information you send is accurate, valid or useful.

5. Unlawful, prohibited or unauthorized conduct

5.1 Unlawful, prohibited or unauthorized conduct: Whenever you use the Site or any Service offered on the Site, you thereby undertake to refrain from performing and from authorizing the following conduct :

5.1.1 Displaying, linking or otherwise sending out or transmitting any false or misleading, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harmful, injurious, libellous, defamatory, slanderous, pornographic or indecent Information, in contravention of any third-party right or conveying illegal content in any other form;

5.1.2 Sending any Request that is frivolous, vexatious or that is intended solely to cause a waste of time or to disrupt;

5.1.3 Displaying, linking or otherwise sending out or transmitting any information or claim in respect of drugs, drug products, surgeries or treatments for sexual, recreational or non essentially therapeutic purposes;

5.1.4 Hiding the source of any information sent;

5.1.5 Falsely personating any other individual or of any other entity or making misrepresentations in respect of any affiliation with any individual or entity;

5.1.6 Displaying or sending any information containing computer viruses, files or codes designed to interrupt, destroy, damage, corrupt or collapse features for this Site or for any site, computer or computer equipment directly or indirectly linked thereto;

5.1.7 Promoting the sale of products and/or services.

6. Intellectual property

6.1 Juris Référence’s intellectual property: The contents of the Site and any Service offered on the Site, the design, the page layout, page setup and pagination of the Site as well as any trademarks displayed on the Site are owned by Juris Référence and/or its partners and are protected by copyright, trademark, unfair competition legislation and by any other applicable legislation, as the case may be, and all or any part thereof shall not be copied or forwarded unless expressly authorized by Juris Référence.

6.2 Limited Site user license : You are hereby authorized to use this Site within the limits expressly contemplated by these Terms and Conditions. You shall not be entitled to use this Site for any other purpose without first obtaining Juris Référence’s express written consent. On a non-restrictive basis, in the absence of said written consent, you shall not be entitled to change, duplicate, distribute, forward, display, publish, license, assign, transfer or sell any contents, data, software, products or services obtained on this Site, or create any works derived therefrom.

6.3 Transmission of content : Whenever you send any content in connection with any use made of the Service, whether it be text, photographs, sound or image files, or other forms of content (hereinafter referred to as « Content »), you are totally liable with respect to said Content. You represent that you are the originator of said Content and rightful holder of all rights therein, or else you represent that you have secured any and all required authorizations in due form allowing you to use said Content in accordance herewith.

Please note that in some instances, several authorizations may be required. For instance, should photographs be concerned, you shall secure permission from the holder of the photography copyright as well as from the person appearing on the photograph. If you are not familiar with the rules respecting content protection we advise you to inquire with counsel specializing in such matters.

6.4 Licence to use your Content : You hereby grant Juris Référence a non-exclusive licence to use, in connection with the Service, any Content downloaded, displayed or sent by you on the Site or by means of the Site, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions provided for hereunder, without any territorial restraint, for the duration of the time during which your User Account is maintained on the Site.

7. Undertakings given by Juris Référence and warranty limitations

7.1 Undertakings given by Juris Référence respecting the Site and the quality of Service: Juris Référence undertakes to do its best to ensure proper Site operating performance and continuous accessibility to its Service. Juris Référence undertakes to do its best and to use its best efforts in order to offer its clients a wide-ranging Service that satisfies their needs.

7.2 Warranty limitations respecting Service performance : Under no circumstances does Juris Référence warrant that the Site and/or the Service will come up to all of Service users’ expectations and more particularly that Counsel will find any commissions and/or clients, or that Users will find the Counsel they are looking for. Under no circumstances will Juris Référence be held liable with respect to any business results Counsel or Users have obtained by using the Service.

7.3 Warranty limitations respecting the Site : Considering the potential for instability on the Internet network and as permitted by law and by any applicable regulation, Juris Référence shall no be liable in any way for the performance of the Site from a technical and/or business standpoint. Juris Référence does not warrant that services provided on the Site will be uninterrupted, safe or free from any error and that it will be possible to correct any defect found in any feature offered or in any software used. You alone will be responsible for any damage caused to your computer and for any data loss resulting from the downloading of any materials by means of the Site.

7.4 Limitation of liability in the event of damage : As permitted by law and by any applicable regulation, Juris Référence shall on no account be liable for any damage, whether directly or indirectly resulting from any use made of, or from any inability to use, the Site and/or the Service, including any damage connected to any loss of profit, loss of means or potential, from the interruption of the Service or from data loss, whether or not Juris Référence is notified of any likelihood thereof.

7.5 Warranty limitations respecting Contents of others: Juris Référence shall on no account be liable in any way for any Content displayed, sent or otherwise conveyed, on the Site or by means of the Site, by Counsel, Users, associates or third parties.

7.6 Engagements de Juris Référence concernant les Avocats inscrits : Avant d’accepter l’inscription de tout avocat sur le Site, Juris Référence procède à une vérification auprès du Barreau du Québec, afin de confirmer que cet avocat est membre en règle du Barreau du Québec et a le droit d’exercer sa profession. Par la suite, Juris Référence procède à une vérification fréquente de cette information. Le compte client de tout Avocat radié ou suspendu sera fermé et, le cas échéant, toute Demande en suspens transmise à cet Avocat lui sera retirée. Juris Référence ne peut être tenue responsable du maintien de l’inscription d’un Avocat basé sur toute information erronée obtenue de bonne foi à ce sujet.

7.7 Limitation de garantie à l’égard des mandats, services et opinions juridiques fournis : Juris Référence ne participe d’aucune façon au choix d’un Avocat par un Usager, dans la décision d’un Usager de confier ou non un mandat à un Avocat ni dans la décision d’un Avocat d’accepter ou non un mandat d’un Usager. En aucun cas Juris Référence ne pourra être tenue responsable, de quelque façon que ce soit, à l’égard de tels choix et décisions ou des conséquences de tels choix et décisions par les Usagers et les Avocats.

Likewise, Juris Référence shall not be held liable with respect to the quality of any Offers made by Counsel or with respect to any legal services rendered by any Counsel to any User as a result of use made of the Service, Counsel being fully accountable therefor.

Juris Référence is not a law firm and does not provide legal opinions of any nature whatsoever by means of the Site. The originator of any legal opinion published on the Site or by means of the Site from time to time shall be fully accountable therefor and Juris Référence shall in no way be accountable therefor. Nevertheless, where Juris Référence is notified or has reasonable grounds to believe that any opinion or any other legal document in error, malfeasant, unlawful or in violation of the rights of third parties, is displayed on its Site or is being sent by means of its Site, it reserves the right to withdraw same with or without prior notification and/or to close the Customer Account belonging to the Counsel responsible therefor, at its sole option.

8. Sanctions and indemnities in the event of contravention

8.1 Sanctions in the event of default : Juris Référence reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to temporarily or definitely interrupt or abort your access to the Site or to some of its features and to take any measure deemed appropriate under the circumstances whenever Juris Référence has reasonable grounds to believe that you have breached any of your obligations as provided for hereunder. Such measures may unrestrictedly include the cancellation of your subscription and User Account and the transmission of any illegal content to the appropriate authorities. Juris Référence, without being bound, compelled or under any duty to do so, reserves the right to notify you, by E-Mail or by any other means, of your breach, and to give you an opportunity to remedy said default.

8.2 Deletion of Information : Juris Référence makes scheduled backups of its systems and of the files contained therein. You agree to entitle Juris Référence to delete data or files saved on servers connected to your Customer Account should you breach these Terms and Conditions.

8.3 Indemnification : You undertake to indemnify Juris Référence and to take up its defense and, as the case may be, that of its employees, agents, assigns, representatives and/or business partners, for any damage, loss or expense of any kind, (including reasonable counsel fees) possibly incurred by the latter owing to your failure to meet your commitments hereunder, in connection with any claim, judicial proceedings or recovery whatsoever, based on the infringement of originators rights, the operation of any relevant right or agreement or on any injury to third party rights, including any pecuniary or other damage resulting from the performance of any act that is unlawful, prohibited or unauthorized act under or in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

8.4 Notification of third party faults : You also undertake to notify and to cooperate with Juris Référence in the event that you should find out about any unlawful or unauthorized act provided for hereunder.

9. Juris Référence’S liability in regard to external sites

9.1 Hyperliens vers les sites externes : Juris Référence n’est pas responsable du contenu des autres sites Web accessibles sous forme d’hyperliens depuis le présent Site, y compris les sites des Avocats (ci-après les « Sites liés »), ces sites n’ayant pas été créés par Juris Référence et n’étant pas sous son contrôle. À moins d’une mention expresse à cet effet, Juris Référence n’est pas affiliée et n’endosse pas les Sites liés, leurs propriétaires et gestionnaires ou les produits et/ou services accessibles sur ces sites. Ce Site n’est pas commandité par les Sites liés ou par leurs propriétaires ou gestionnaires à l'exception du partenaire Juris Concept Votre navigation dans ces Sites liés et leur inclusion dans vos favoris relèvent de votre propre responsabilité.

9.2 Hyperlinks to Site : You cannot create any hyperlink to said Site or use said Site in association with any third party trademark in such a way as to let people believe that said Site is endorsed or associated with the present Site or with Juris Référence without first obtaining Juris Référence’s express written authorization. Juris Référence reserves the right to deny you the use of any hyperlink to the present Site where the context in which said hyperlink is used has any adverse effect on Juris Référence’s honour, reputation or business interests.

10. Applicable statutes and jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed, applied, and construed in accordance with the laws of the province of Québec. The parties agree that the courts of the district of Québec, Quebec, Canada, shall have jurisdiction over any dispute, claim or legal action pertaining to these Terms.

11. Information on complaints or abuses

All complaints or abuses noticed on Juris Référence’s Site or servers shall be sent by email or to the following address :

Juris Concept

2700, rue Jean-Perrin, bur. 400

Québec (Québec), CA

G2C 1X8