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Carlton Fields Jorden Burt is a multijurisdictional legal services provider comprising of legal practices that are separate and distinct legal entities.  Legal services from our offices in Florida, Georgia, Connecticut, New York, and Washington, D.C., are provided by Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, P.A., which is a Florida professional association having an office located at 4221 W. Boy Scout Boulevard, Suite 1000, Tampa, Florida 33607.  Legal services from our office in California are provided by Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, LLP, a California limited liability partnership having an office located at 2029 Century Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles, California 90067.  Certain California attorneys who render services through Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, LLP, are shareholders of Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, P.A.

Our attorneys are admitted to practice law only in the jurisdiction(s) noted in the individual biographies.

This website contains much information in the form of articles of general applicability or intended as educational and introductory to various areas of the law or legal issues. NONE IS LEGAL ADVICE APPLICABLE TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION. NO LAWYER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP IS CREATED BY VISITING THIS WEBSITE AND REVIEWING ANY MATERIAL ON IT. YOU ARE NOT JUSTIFIED IN RELYING ON ANY ARTICLE IN MAKING A DECISION ABOUT A SPECIFIC SITUATION; RATHER, YOU SHOULD CONSULT COMPETENT COUNSEL FOR LEGAL ADVICE OR REPRESENTATION.

A PERSON MAY BECOME A CLIENT OF CARLTON FIELDS JORDEN BURT ONLY THROUGH A WRITTEN ENGAGEMENT LETTER BETWEEN THAT PERSON AND THE FIRM, AFTER THE FIRM HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW ITS DATABASE TO ASSURE NO CONFLICT EXISTS AND AFTER DECIDING WHETHER THE REPRESENTATION IS APPROPRIATE.

Under some interpretations of the legal ethics rules, some material in this website should be considered advertising. This website constitutes a ‘communication’ as defined in Rule 1-400(A) of the California Rules of Professional Conduct in that it is a message made by and on behalf of lawyers at Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, LLP, who are members of the State Bar of California concerning the availability for professional employment of those members and their law firm. The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely upon the information included on this website. Before you decide to hire a lawyer, please ask us to send you written information about our qualifications and experience.

Links to Other Websites.

This website contains links to other websites. Carlton Fields Jorden Burt is not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by Carlton Fields Jorden Burt. The firm does not necessarily endorse, and is not responsible for, any third-party content that may be accessed through this website. Carlton Fields Jorden Burt provides these links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply recommendation, approval or endorsement by our firm.

Copyrights and Copyright Agents.

Carlton Fields Jorden Burt respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask visitors to our site to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our copyright agent the following information:

1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
3. Identification of the material that you claim to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed, and the location of that material on the website;
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit Carlton Fields Jorden Burt to contact the complaining party (e.g., the address, telephone number or email address);
5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf. Our Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement on the site can be reached by directing an e-mail to the Copyright Agent at: Peter J. Winders
   Shareholder, General Counsel
   Carlton Fields Jorden Burt
   4221 W. Boy Scout Blvd., Suite 1000
   Tampa, FL 33607-5780
   Email: pwinders@CFJBLaw.com
   Fax: 813.229.4133

Privacy Policy

For more than 100 years, we at Carlton Fields Jorden Burt (“Carlton Fields Jorden Burt” or “Firm”) have been committed to providing top-quality legal service, advice, and support to our clients. A long standing and necessary component of our practice has been our unwavering commitment to hold the information you give us in confidence. With all of our clients, only so much information as is necessary to accomplish the client’s goals is communicated with others.

As a result of recent federal laws, we are required to give individual clients (not trusts, partnerships, corporations, and the like) who have engaged us for personal, family, or household purposes (not business or commercial purposes) written notice of our information gathering, retention, and disclosure policies. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to discuss our Privacy Policy so you understand why we collect Information* and what we do with it. Our professional ethics require attorney-client confidentiality. However, there are instances where certain information necessary to perform our services will be disclosed or used subject to these professional ethics and canons.

The policies and disclosures contained in this Privacy Policy may change over time, but we will communicate with you, as required by law, when changes are made. This Privacy Policy replaces all previous notices or statements with respect to this subject, and cannot be modified orally by any of our agents, employees or officers.

While we maintain the confidentiality of all clients, consistent with the client’s goals and our ethical obligations, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected from partnerships, trusts or corporations, and only applies to individuals who engage Carlton Fields Jorden Burt’s services for personal, familial, or household purposes.

Information We Collect

We collect personally identifiable Information at different times during our engagement. Information is collected in order to assist us in analyzing your legal rights and options and to best serve your interests.

Information we collect comes to us in the following ways:

• Information you provide to us in correspondence, documents, and discussions;
• Information you provide on forms that we ask you to fill out, either for our records or for us to file with an appropriate agency or government office;
• Information we collect during our relationship with you, so we can provide legal services such as real estate settlement and closing services or tax advice;
• Information that is publicly available, such as deeds or mortgages which have been publicly filed;
• Information that you provide to us for us to use in a case, settlement negotiation, or other proceeding; and
• Information that we obtain during our billing process.

The type of Information we collect depends on the services that you have asked us to provide. For example, in a real estate closing, we collect address and contact numbers, financial information such as the price of the home you are selling or purchasing, and information relating to your mortgage and insurance, if you have obtained them. If you visit our website, our servers may log information such as your IP address, the pages you click on and how much time you spend there, and the web page you came from and go to next. We also save the information you transmit to us on our website when you ask us to send you brochures or applications. If you send us a letter, email or fax, we save that information in our files, so we can respond to your questions or comments in order to best represent your interests.

Categories of Non-Affiliated Service Providers with Whom We Work

It should be obvious that we never provide Information to anyone unrelated to the matter we are handling for you. We do not, for example, provide information for purposes of mailing lists, and the like. But we do from time to time need to retain other services in connection with a matter we are handling. Sometimes we retain non-affiliated Service Providers such as court reporters, title insurance companies, messenger services, copy services and the like. These Service Providers often assist us in a number of ways in managing information relating to your matter.

We also often work with other parties such as accountants, expert witnesses, credit bureaus, bankers, and other businesses as necessary to perform our legal services for you. In such instances, we cannot always ensure that all information given to such businesses will be held in the same strict confidence as we do.

Information We Disclose

We ask our Service Providers to hold any Information we provide to them in confidence, and use the Information only to provide the services we have hired them to perform for you and for us. We may disclose your Information to credit bureaus and similar organizations, where required or permitted by law. For example, we may disclose your Information in connection with a subpoena or other legal process, in an audit, or when we record your mortgage or deed in the public records. Also, to represent your interest, or upon your consent, we may share your Information with third parties.

We only disclose your Information within the Firm, to Service Providers and third parties as allowed or required by law, to provide our services, or to obtain payment from you for the services we have provided. In real estate matters, we file certain real estate settlement documents with the appropriate recording office and provide closing documents to the seller of the property you are purchasing.

Disclosures About Confidentiality and Security

The security and confidentiality of your Information is very important to us. We take steps to safeguard it every day. We have physical and electronic safeguards, and company-wide policies and procedures, designed specifically to guard your Information against accidental disclosure. Our employees, agents, and service providers cannot use your Information for purposes other than those which we at Carlton Fields Jorden Burt authorize. Access to your Information is restricted, and employees who fail to follow our policies and procedures are subject to disciplinary action.

So You Know…

We provide you with access to your Information in various ways, including on our invoices and in letters to you. If you note that the Information we have is incomplete, incorrect or not current, please call the attorney who serves as your primary contact with the firm. We will update or correct the error promptly.

If our representation of you is terminated, this Privacy Policy will apply to information we collected while this Privacy Policy was in effect, unless we send you a revised Privacy Policy during such time as you were our client.

The examples listed in this Privacy Policy are illustrations and are not all-inclusive.

* Information is defined as information which identifies you and which is not publicly available.