Employee benefits legal resource site: copyright notice

All written materials on this site, other than U.S. government materials, are copyright © 1999-2009 Calhoun Law Group, P.C, except where another party is indicated (e.g., BenefitsLink). However, we intend for the materials for which Calhoun Law Group, P.C holds the copyright to be shared, so we allow others to use them, without seeking specific permission, with the limitations described on this page.

You are welcome to reproduce all articles, speech outlines, and other publications other than our Employee Benefits Library pages and our governmental plans and 403(b) plans message boards in whole (including the indication of the author and the links back to our site), but without any new material added to them, on your site, so long as you do not use them in a way that suggests we are affiliated in any way with you or your organization. Similarly, you are welcome to print out the printer-friendly versions of such materials, so long as you do so in full, do not add any additional text to them, do so in a way that does not suggest that we are affiliated with you or your organization. However, we suggest that you contact us before reproducing a particular article or speech outline, to determine whether the material in it has been superceded by later developments. You are required to contact us to get permission for any use of the text (as opposed to underlying images or code) of an article which is involves use of less than all the text of a document, or which does not include the links back to our site.

You are welcome to link to, but not to reproduce on your site, all pages from our Employee Benefits Library pages and our governmental plans and 403(b) plans message boards. However, you may not put them into frames from your site, or otherwise suggest an affiliation with us.

You are welcome to use any of our images, other than those which are trademarked or copyrighted by BenefitsLink. However, to prevent excessive demands on our server, we require that if you want to use images from this site on the Web, you must first save them to your own computer, and then put them on your own site. Otherwise, you will discover that the image does not work on your site. To save images, right click (or click and hold if you are using a Mac) over the image and choose "Save" or "Save As" or "Save Picture" (varies with browsers). Type in the name you want for the file, or use the default name, and save the image to the directory of your choice.

Third, these pages have a great deal of code intended to make them easier to navigate and more accessible to disabled persons, to set forth the styles for various elements, etc. We know how useful it is to other Web designers to be able to copy and paste such code for use in their own sites, and have no objection to your doing so, except as specified below. The only part of the code that we ask that you not use is the lines which read as follows:

index.html

(The part in bold is the name of the page, and varies from page to page.) This code lets the tracker for our site know things like how many people come to the site, what search engines they use, etc. Thus, we ask that you not use it except to the extent that you are reproducing a full article, speech outline, or the like.

Also, some of the scripts were developed by others, and we use them by permission. In each instance in which this is the case, a note as to the developer, and the conditions on their use, is contained in the coding for the page itself. If you use this code, you need to comply with whatever conditions the developer has put on the code. Very little of the code requires any type of payment to the developer, but in many instances the coding identifying the developer must be used.

Finally, as with all materials provided free on this site, we are not in a position to respond to individual questions, and we provide no warranties with respect to any of the materials.

Glad to have you here!

Disclaimer:  Due to ethical considerations, the authors of the materials on the Employee Benefits Legal Resource Site are not in a position to respond to legal questions from parties with whom they do not have an attorney-client relationship.

The materials included in the Employee Benefits Legal Resource Site are intended to be general information. They are not provided in the course of an attorney-client relationship and do not constitute legal advice. They are not intended to be a substitute for obtaining legal advice from your own legal counsel.  The speeches and articles reflect the state of the law at the time they are written (which in many instances will be earlier than the date shown as the last revision), and the law may have changed since that time.

To the extent that you contact Carol V. Calhoun for the purpose of becoming a client, please be aware that the attorney-client privilege will not apply until and unless you become a client.  Thus, initial inquiries or requests that she represent you should not include any information you consider confidential.

This page last modified on Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 11:16 PM EST.