The terms, stated plainly.
What this site is, what it is not, how the HDAi platform works, and the ground rules for using both — including our attorney-advertising notice and accessibility commitment.
Effective November 1, 2026 (these Terms add the HDAi platform terms in section 3 and text messages about your call in section 3B). These Terms of Use govern hartdavidcarson.com and the HDAi platform. By using the site you accept them; if you do not, please do not use the site.
1. Attorney advertising; no legal advice; no attorney-client relationship
This website may constitute attorney advertising under the rules of certain jurisdictions. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Everything on this site — pages, briefs, jurisdiction notes, generated documents, and the answers in any interactive tool — is general information, not legal advice, and is provided without knowledge of your particular situation. Using this site, submitting a form, sending an email, or generating a document does not create an attorney-client relationship. That relationship is formed only when the firm has completed its conflict-of-interest procedures and both you and the firm have signed an engagement agreement. Until then, information you send may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege, so do not send confidential or time-sensitive information through the website.
2. The firm and where we practice
Hart David Carson LLP is an Illinois limited liability partnership with its principal office in Chicago. Our lawyers are admitted in the jurisdictions listed in their individual profiles, and we practice in other places only as permitted by applicable rules, including by coordinating with locally admitted counsel. Content on this site concerning the law of any jurisdiction — including the firm’s international jurisdiction briefs — is educational, may not reflect current law, and is not a substitute for advice from counsel admitted where you are. References to a partner network describe coordination with independent, locally admitted firms; those firms are not part of Hart David Carson LLP.
3. HDAi platform terms
HDAi is software the firm makes available for producing first-draft legal documents and related self-help tools. The following terms apply in addition to everything else in these Terms:
- Drafts, not advice. Every document HDAi generates is a draft template completed with your answers. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer when it is generated, may be unsuitable for your situation, and may be affected by laws that changed after it was written. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you enter.
- Pricing. Generating and exporting a document is free; exporting asks for your email address (see Downloads below). Attorney review of a single HDAi document is not sold on this site. We may offer it during a consultation call, to someone who decides against one of our flat-fee packages: review and sign-off of one document by an Illinois attorney at the firm, for a flat $500, and only where an Illinois attorney can properly review that document. Like any engagement, it is subject to conflicts clearance and a signed engagement letter, and its fee is confirmed with you before any work begins.
- Your inputs. Interviews assemble in your browser and are transmitted to the firm only if you submit a draft for review or use an integrated signing service. Avoid entering Social Security numbers or similar identifiers unless the document requires them; sensitive fields can be completed after engagement.
- Downloads. Downloading, printing or copying a document asks for your email address and answers to a few short questions. We use them as our Privacy Policy describes, including to send occasional legal updates and offers by email, which you can stop at any time. Your document answers and the document text are not sent to us by this step. Using the Studio, including downloading from it, does not create an attorney-client relationship.
- Signing and notarization. Where a document supports electronic signing or remote online notarization, those services are provided through third-party platforms under their own terms, which you accept when you use them.
- No unauthorized practice. HDAi does not select documents for you, apply law to your facts, or advocate for you; where your situation is complex or contested, the right tool is a lawyer, and we will tell you so.
3A. Registered Agent and Virtual Office
Registered-agent service is sold per state for a one-year term at the price shown at checkout and renews only when you choose to renew; the firm manages the service and fulfils it through a national registered-office network whose locally licensed registered office is named on the state record. Virtual office service is billed one month at a time and may be cancelled effective the end of the current billing month; mail receiving is subject to USPS Form 1583 authorization. Fees, renewal dates and any cancellation or refund terms are confirmed at checkout before you are charged; while a service is in preview, nothing is filed or charged.
3B. Text messages about your call
If you tick the box for text reminders when you book a call, Hart David Carson LLP will text the mobile number you give us a confirmation and reminders about that call. Message frequency varies, usually a confirmation and one or two reminders for each booked call. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to any message to stop texts, or HELP for help; you can also reach us at counsel@hartdavidcarson.com or +1 (630) 395-9496. Agreeing to texts is optional and is not a condition of booking or of any engagement. We send marketing texts only to people who have separately agreed to them in writing. Mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. We do not share mobile numbers, or consent to receive texts, with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes; see our Privacy Policy. Texts begin once our text-messaging number is registered with the mobile carriers.
4. Unsolicited information and conflicts
The firm represents clients with interests that may be adverse to yours. Until we have agreed to represent you, information you send us — through any channel — is not protected by an engagement, and receiving it does not prevent the firm from representing another party, including adverse to you. Send us enough to let us run a conflicts check, and no more.
5. Intellectual property
The site, its text, design, marks, and code are the property of Hart David Carson LLP or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property law. You may view, download, and print pages for your personal or internal business reference, and documents you generate through HDAi with your own answers are yours to use for your own purposes. You may not resell, republish at scale, misrepresent the origin of, or build a competing document service from the site’s content. “Hart David Carson,” the Hart David Carson wordmark, and “HDAi” are marks of the firm; nothing here grants a license to use them.
6. Acceptable use
You agree not to misuse the site: no attempts to breach its security or that of its service providers, no probing or overloading its infrastructure, no submitting content that is unlawful or that you lack the right to share, no impersonating others in a form submission, and no using the site’s tools to further a fraud or other unlawful scheme. We may suspend access that threatens the site or its users.
7. Third-party services
The site links to and integrates a small number of third-party services — hosting, our client-relationship system, payment processors, our phone and text-message providers, and an electronic signing and notarization platform. Those services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices; our Privacy Policy describes exactly what reaches them. Links to external sites do not imply endorsement.
8. Disclaimers
The site and HDAi are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, the firm disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any document is suitable for your circumstances. Nothing in these Terms limits duties the firm owes a client under a signed engagement agreement or the rules of professional conduct.
9. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the firm’s total liability arising out of the use of this website or HDAi — excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, services performed under a signed engagement agreement — will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid the firm for the specific HDAi service giving rise to the claim or one hundred U.S. dollars ($100), and the firm will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those jurisdictions these limits apply to the fullest extent permitted.
10. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of the website or these Terms will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts sitting in Cook County, Illinois, and you consent to their jurisdiction. This section does not govern the terms of any engagement agreement, which controls for client matters.
11. Accessibility
We want this site usable by everyone. It is built against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA: semantic structure and landmarks, full keyboard operability, visible focus, and honored reduced-motion preferences — the cinematic layers stand down when your system asks them to. Accessibility work is ongoing and imperfect; if anything on this site is difficult for you to use, tell us at counsel@hartdavidcarson.com or +1 (630) 395-9496 and we will provide the content another way and fix the barrier.
12. Changes; severability; entire terms
We may update these Terms by posting a revised version with a new effective date; material changes will be noted prominently. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder stands. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and the firm about the website itself, and they do not modify any engagement agreement.
13. Contact
Hart David Carson LLP · 1 East Erie Street, Suite 525-5459, Chicago, Illinois 60611 · counsel@hartdavidcarson.com · +1 (630) 395-9496. Responsible attorney for attorney-advertising purposes: Jonathan D. Herpy, Sr.