In the course of providing legal services for our clients, we collect personal information that is often of a private and confidential nature. Depending on the services that we are providing, this might include your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, social security number, information about your finances, information about your family and household, and your thoughts and feelings about certain matters. With your permission, we may also collect information about you from third parties who have a relationship with you, such as your accountant, banker, insurance agent, financial planner, and the like. (These third parties should not be providing any information to us without your permission.)
When hiring our firm to represent you in a legal matter, you expect that we will keep all of your information completely confidential. The law requires us to keep your personal information private, and we are extremely careful to make sure that we do that.
We view our obligation to guard your personal information and keep it completely confidential at all times as one of the highest obligations that we have as attorneys. Information that you provide to us will only be used by our office in providing you with the legal service that you have hired us to undertake; we will use that information only as necessary to properly carry out that representation.
Our efforts to guard and keep confidential your personal information include the following. Without your permission, we will never reveal any information that we have obtained about you—regardless of the source or nature of the information—even if it’s a matter of public knowledge—unless it’s in connection with our work on your behalf or we are legally bound to do so. In fact, without our client’s specific permission, we do not even acknowledge to others the simple fact that we are representing a particular client unless it is in connection with the work we are doing for that client. In addition, we never sell any client information—even of a general nature not containing identifying information−or allow others to use any of our client information for marketing purposes.
Our legal obligation to protect your personal information extends to our staff. When we are in the process of hiring new staff members, we carefully screen them with respect to their ability to keep all information in this office completely confidential, and we train them very carefully with regard to this obligation.
When hiring Durrenberger Law Office to assist you, you can be assured that protecting your privacy is of the highest priority for us.