Legal
These Terms of Use govern access to and use of the El Hachem Law Firm website and the content made available through it.
1.1This website is operated by El Hachem Law Firm (the "Firm", "we", "us" or "our"), a law firm established in Beirut, Lebanon in 1978.
1.2These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of this website, including all content, materials and functionality made available through it (the "Website"). By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not accept them, you should not use the Website.
1.3The Website presents information regarding the Firm's practices, including General Legal Services and IMPACT – Risk, Governance & Crisis Advisory ("IMPACT"), together with lawyer biographies, service descriptions, contact routes, insights and publications.
2.1The content of the Website is provided for general information purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice, advisory advice, risk advice, governance advice or any other form of professional advice, and must not be treated or relied upon as such.
2.2Legal, regulatory, governance and risk matters are fact-specific and jurisdiction-specific. Information published on the Website is general in nature, may not reflect the most current legal or regulatory developments, and may not apply to your circumstances. You should obtain specific professional advice before taking, or refraining from taking, any action based on Website content.
3.1Access to or use of the Website does not create a lawyer-client relationship, advisory-client relationship, fiduciary relationship, retainer, mandate or any other professional or contractual relationship between you and the Firm, IMPACT, or any partner, lawyer, adviser or staff member of the Firm.
3.2A professional relationship is established only when the Firm has accepted the engagement in writing following its internal acceptance procedures, including conflict checks, KYC, and any other required professional or compliance review. Any accepted engagement is governed by separate written engagement documents.
4.1Submitting an enquiry through the Website, completing a contact form, or sending an email to an address published on the Website does not create any engagement, retainer, professional relationship or obligation to act.
4.2The Firm may decline to respond to, or act on, any enquiry. The Firm may also be unable to respond substantively before completing conflict-of-interest checks and other internal acceptance procedures.
5.1Before accepting any engagement, the Firm conducts conflict-of-interest checks in accordance with its professional obligations and internal procedures.
5.2Information provided in connection with a prospective matter may be used for conflict-checking and engagement-assessment purposes. The use of such information for those purposes does not mean that the Firm has accepted an engagement or assumed any obligation to act.
6.1You should not send confidential, privileged, commercially sensitive, personal, or otherwise sensitive information to the Firm through the Website, by contact form, or by email before a formal engagement has been accepted in writing.
6.2Information sent before an engagement is accepted may not benefit from the professional confidentiality protections applicable to an accepted client engagement.
6.3Nothing in these Terms limits the professional obligations of the Firm once a formal engagement has been accepted and the applicable engagement documents are in force.
7.1The Firm takes reasonable care in preparing Website content, but makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability of any Website material.
7.2You should not rely on Website content as a basis for legal, regulatory, governance, commercial, financial or other decisions. Any reliance on Website content is at your own risk.
8.1Where the Firm accepts an engagement, the terms of that engagement are set out exclusively in separate written documents agreed with the client, including any letter of engagement, terms of business, scope, schedule, annex or other engagement document.
8.2Nothing on the Website forms part of, varies, supplements or overrides the terms of any professional engagement. In the event of inconsistency between Website content and engagement documents, the engagement documents prevail.
9.1Website descriptions of IMPACT, its capability areas, methodologies, frameworks, references, outputs or engagement pathways are provided for general information only.
9.2IMPACT advisory work does not constitute an audit, audit-equivalent review, assurance engagement, attestation, certification, accreditation or guarantee of outcome unless expressly stated in a written engagement document. References to recognised frameworks or standards are alignment references only and do not imply certification, endorsement or substitution for professional judgment.
10.1All Website content, including text, lawyer biographies, service descriptions, insights, publications, graphics, logos, design elements and the arrangement and presentation of content, is owned by or licensed to the Firm and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
10.2The name and marks of El Hachem Law Firm and IMPACT, and all associated logos and identifiers, are the property of the Firm and may not be used without the Firm's prior written consent.
10.3The methodologies, frameworks, models, assessment structures, templates, taxonomies, scoring logic, governance architecture logic and proprietary approaches developed or applied by the Firm and IMPACT remain the exclusive intellectual property of the Firm. No description of any service or capability on the Website grants any licence, right or interest in such materials.
11.1You may access and view the Website and may print or download individual pages for your own personal, non-commercial reference, provided that you do not remove proprietary notices.
11.2You may not, without the Firm's prior written consent:
11.3The use of automated tools, artificial intelligence systems, scraping tools, data-harvesting tools, or similar technologies to extract, analyse, reproduce, reverse engineer, train upon, or otherwise exploit Website content, methodologies, frameworks, publications, or proprietary materials is prohibited without the Firm's prior written consent.
12.1The Website may contain links to third-party websites or resources. Such links are provided for convenience only.
12.2The Firm does not control, endorse or accept responsibility for the content, availability or practices of any third-party website. Your use of any third-party website is at your own risk and subject to that website's own terms.
13.1The Firm may make available a controlled-access client environment for engaged clients. Any such environment will be subject to separate access controls, user terms, confidentiality requirements and engagement documentation.
13.2No client portal access is offered, promised or implied by these Terms or by general use of the Website.
14.1To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Firm, its partners, lawyers, advisers and staff shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with your access to, use of, inability to use, or reliance on the Website or any Website content.
14.2Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable Lebanese law.
15.1The Firm may amend these Terms at any time by publishing an updated version on the Website. Amendments take effect upon publication.
15.2Your continued use of the Website following publication of amended Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
16.1These Terms and any matter arising out of or in connection with them or with your use of the Website are governed by the laws of Lebanon.
16.2The courts of Beirut, Lebanon shall have jurisdiction in respect of any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Website.
17.1Enquiries regarding these Terms may be directed to the Firm at info@elhachemlaw.com or at El-Areed Street, Etoile Center, Ain el Remmaneh, Beirut, Lebanon.