1. The firm and the purpose of this agreement

This is an agreement between Crawford Law PLLC, a Texas professional limited liability company ("the Firm"), and the person who signs it ("you"). Andrew M. Crawford is the attorney responsible for the Firm. He is admitted in Texas, State Bar of Texas number 24148908.

You are asking the Firm to hear a matter and to decide whether it can represent you. This agreement covers that intake and a limited consultation only. It is not an agreement to file a lawsuit, send a demand, negotiate a deal, draft a document for use, or represent you in any proceeding. If the Firm takes that further work, you and the Firm will sign a separate engagement letter that states the scope and the fee.

2. What does not make you a client

Looking at the website, calling the Firm, or using the online intake assistant does not, by itself, create an attorney-client relationship. Do not send the confidential story until you have signed and you have a receipt. Information you submit before you sign is for routing and a conflict check: your name, how to reach you, the type of matter, where it sits, and the names of the other people and companies. Keep the facts of the dispute on the other side of this signature.

3. The limited consultation that starts when you sign

When the Firm's system records your signature and gives you a receipt, the Firm accepts a limited consultation. The scope is to review what you submit, check conflicts, and decide whether the Firm can represent you, and on what terms. For that limited purpose, you are consulting the Firm in order to obtain legal advice, and you intend the consultation to be confidential.

Signing does not mean the Firm has agreed to represent you in the underlying matter. The Firm may decline, including after you have told the story. If the Firm declines, it will tell you, and this limited consultation ends.

4. Confidentiality and privilege, stated plainly

After you sign, the Firm will treat what you submit as confidential under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, including Rule 1.05, to the extent that rule applies to this consultation, and subject to the exceptions in those rules and in law.

The Firm intends that confidential communications you make after signing, for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from the Firm, be protected by the attorney-client privilege and, where it applies, by the work-product doctrine. Privilege is decided by a court if it is ever challenged. The Firm cannot promise that every sentence will be treated as privileged. Privilege can be waived if you repeat the conversation, forward it, or post it. Communications before you sign, and communications with people outside the Firm, may not be privileged.

A signature does not create privilege by magic. Privilege depends on a confidential communication, made for the purpose of legal advice, within a relationship the law recognizes. This agreement is how the Firm forms that limited relationship before you tell the story. If you do not receive a receipt, do not assume the Firm has the story or that this agreement is in effect. Call the Firm.

5. The intake assistant and voice

The intake assistant is software the Firm uses for intake. It is not a lawyer, not a member of the Firm, and not certified in any area of law. It does not give legal advice, predict results, or decide whether the Firm will take a case. Andrew M. Crawford reviews signed intakes.

If you turn voice on, the intake assistant speaks with your device's speech tools and your browser transcribes what you say. The Firm does not keep a separate audio recording. Transcripts are often wrong. Before you submit, correct anything that matters. You may type instead of talking, and you may turn voice off at any time.

6. Electronic systems and outside processors

The intake is electronic. The Firm will email the signed intake, including the chat, to Andrew M. Crawford. If a language-model vendor is connected, the information you submit after signing may be processed by that vendor only to operate the intake. Do not send Social Security numbers, passwords, full account numbers, or medical records through the chat.

The Firm's file of this consultation includes your answers, the chat, the version of this agreement, your typed name, and the time the Firm recorded the signature.

7. Conflicts

The Firm may be unable to consult with you, or to represent you, because of a conflict. You agree the Firm may use the names you provide to check. If a conflict exists, the consultation stops. Stopping does not, by itself, allow the Firm to use your confidential information for someone else's benefit. The Firm may disclose information to the extent the disciplinary rules or the law require, including to defend the Firm.

8. What you agree to do

You will tell the truth. You will not use the intake assistant for an emergency. If you are in danger, call 911. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988. You will not send information about another person's matter unless you have authority to do so. You understand the intake assistant may misunderstand you, and you will correct material errors before you submit.

9. Fees, and deadlines the Firm has not calculated

This limited consultation is not a bill unless a separate writing says otherwise. The Firm has not agreed to an hourly fee, a flat fee, or a contingent fee for the underlying matter. Any fee will be in a later engagement letter. Signing does not create a debt.

Deadlines can be short, including in defamation matters. The Firm has not calculated your deadline unless a later writing says it has. Do not wait on this chat if a hearing, a filing, or a limitations date is close. Call the Firm, and do not assume the chat has stopped a clock.

10. Electronic signature and copies

You consent to make this agreement electronically under the federal E-SIGN Act and the Texas Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. Your typed legal name, your confirmation that you agree, and the Firm's record of the time it received the signature are your signature. You may ask for a copy. You may also read this agreement at https://crawfordlawtx.com/agreement before you sign.

The version you are signing is 2026.10.20.2. If the words on the screen differ from the Firm's copy of this version, the Firm's copy of this version controls.

11. Ending the consultation

You may stop at any time before you submit. The Firm may decline or end the consultation at any time, subject to duties that have already attached. Ending the consultation does not make earlier confidential communications public.

12. Texas law

Texas law governs this agreement, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The Firm practices in Texas. A matter that has to be handled somewhere else may be a matter the Firm cannot take.

13. The whole limited agreement

This is the entire agreement about the intake consultation. It does not limit any duty the disciplinary rules impose on the Firm. If a sentence here conflicts with those rules, the rules control.

Crawford Law PLLC accepts this agreement when its system records your signature and shows you a receipt. Andrew M. Crawford, Crawford Law PLLC, State Bar of Texas 24148908.