- Effective Date: January 01, 2026
- Contracting Entity: Legal Husk, a United States business entity doing business as LegalHusk
- Contact: [email protected]
Marketplace model. LegalHusk operates an online technology marketplace where Clients and independent Professionals meet, communicate, form direct engagements, and work toward the successful completion of Professional Services. LegalHusk facilitates marketplace access, administrative workflows, communications, records, support, and payment administration through third party providers. LegalHusk does not provide Professional Services, is not a law firm, does not employ or supervise Professionals, is not a party to Client and Professional engagements, and does not guarantee any legal, financial, commercial, or other result.
Important. This Agreement governs access to the LegalHusk marketplace by independent Professionals. LegalHusk is a technology marketplace, not a law firm, legal service provider, supervising lawyer, fiduciary, trustee, or escrow agent.
1. Agreement and Incorporation
This Professional Marketplace Agreement is between Legal Husk, a United States business entity doing business as LegalHusk, and the person or entity that applies for, accepts, or uses a Professional account. By accepting this Agreement, the Professional confirms that the Professional has reviewed and agrees to the LegalHusk Marketplace Terms and Conditions, Privacy Notice, Payment, Cancellation, and Refund Policy, Complaints and Administrative Dispute Policy, Professional Verification and Listing Policy, Review and Rating Policy, Acceptable Use and Prohibited Services Policy, Cookie Policy, any applicable international or regional addendum, and each accepted Order.
Capitalized words not defined here have the meaning stated in the Marketplace Terms and Conditions. If a conflict exists, mandatory law and professional duties apply first, followed by an applicable regional addendum, this Agreement for the Professional's relationship with LegalHusk, the Engagement Agreement for Professional Services, the specific Order for commercial details that do not conflict, and then the general Platform policies.
LegalHusk may require renewed acceptance after a material change. A change does not retroactively alter an existing Order unless mandatory law requires it or the affected parties lawfully agree.
2. Professional Status and Authority
The Professional represents and warrants throughout Platform use that the Professional:
- is at least eighteen years old and has authority to enter this Agreement individually and for any listed organization;
- is accurately classified as a lawyer, law firm, paralegal, legal technician, document assistant, consultant, or other provider;
- is currently authorized to offer every listed service in every jurisdiction where the service is offered or the matter is connected;
- maintains every license, registration, permit, supervision, education, insurance, trust account, tax registration, and business authorization required for the Professional's activities;
- is not suspended, disbarred, prohibited, sanctioned, or otherwise ineligible, except to the extent fully disclosed and expressly approved in writing by LegalHusk after lawful review; and
- will not use the Platform to evade restrictions imposed by a court, regulator, employer, law firm, insurer, or professional body.
The Professional must notify LegalHusk immediately of any change that may affect eligibility, including discipline, restriction, investigation where disclosure is required, charge, conviction, loss of insurance, loss of supervision, trust account issue, insolvency, sanctions concern, identity change, firm change, or unauthorized account access.
3. Independent Professional
The Professional is an independent provider. Nothing in this Agreement creates employment, partnership, franchise, agency, joint venture, fiduciary status, or authority to bind LegalHusk. The Professional controls professional judgment, acceptance and withdrawal, legal analysis, staffing, work method, advice, and work product, subject to the Engagement Agreement, applicable law, and professional duties.
The Professional is responsible for compensation, benefits, insurance, taxes, licenses, equipment, training, supervision, operating expenses, and conduct of all personnel used to perform Professional Services. LegalHusk does not guarantee a minimum number of inquiries, Orders, revenue, ranking, territory, or exclusivity.
The Professional may not state or imply that the Professional is employed, supervised, endorsed, certified, recommended, or guaranteed by LegalHusk. The Professional may accurately state that the Professional is independently listed on the LegalHusk marketplace and may describe a verification badge only within its displayed scope and date.
4. LegalHusk's Limited Role
LegalHusk provides technology, account administration, search, profile, communication, document transmission, recordkeeping, review, support, and payment administration functions. LegalHusk does not provide Professional Services and does not:
- select legal strategy, draft matter specific legal documents, give legal advice, appear before a court, or act as attorney of record;
- conduct conflicts checks for the Professional or decide whether the Professional is competent or authorized;
- supervise the Professional or any nonlawyer;
- decide whether a legal fee is reasonable, earned, refundable, or properly held in trust;
- guarantee the accuracy of Client information, the collectability of fees, or a legal result; or
- determine malpractice, ethical violations, privilege, liability, or legal entitlement between a Client and Professional.
Platform forms, prompts, automated classifications, ranking, support messages, and administrative decisions do not replace the Professional's independent obligations.
5. Credentials, Verification, and Continuing Eligibility
The Professional must provide complete and current identity, business, physical contact, credential, jurisdiction, discipline, insurance, supervision, tax, payout, and sanctions information requested by LegalHusk or the Payment Provider. The Professional authorizes LegalHusk and its providers to verify this information with issuing authorities, regulators, insurers, public records, identity sources, and other lawful sources.
LegalHusk may determine the evidence, timing, scope, and frequency of verification; require renewed evidence; contact an issuing authority; place a listing under review; limit service categories; or reject, suspend, or remove a profile. A successful check is limited to the source and date displayed. It is not a guarantee of competence, good standing after that date, insurance coverage, or outcome.
The Professional must preserve underlying evidence for any profile claim, including education, experience, language, certification, specialist status, awards, publications, outcomes, staff composition, insurance, service location, and price. The Professional must remove or correct a claim that becomes incomplete, misleading, or unlawful.
6. Jurisdiction and Unauthorized Practice Controls
Before responding substantively to an inquiry or accepting an Order, the Professional must identify every country, state, province, territory, court, agency, and body of law materially connected with the matter. The Professional must decide whether the Professional may lawfully provide the requested service and whether local counsel, admission, registration, supervision, disclosure, or another safeguard is required.
A Professional may not use a broad Platform audience as authority to practice in a jurisdiction where the Professional is not authorized. A profile must state service jurisdictions accurately and must not imply global authorization merely because the Platform is available worldwide.
The Professional must not assist unauthorized practice by a Client, another Professional, staff member, contractor, or nonlawyer. The Professional must decline or limit any matter that cannot be performed lawfully through the available structure.
7. Nonlawyer Professionals and Supervision
A paralegal or other nonlawyer may offer only services permitted by the law governing the matter. Unless independently authorized, a nonlawyer must not give legal advice, select strategy, establish an attorney client relationship, appear as counsel, negotiate as a lawyer, or prepare documents for another person where that activity constitutes unauthorized practice.
Where supervision is required, the profile, Engagement Agreement, and Order must identify the responsible lawyer or law firm. The supervising lawyer must be authorized for the matter, accept responsibility, direct and review work to the extent required, protect confidentiality, manage conflicts, and ensure that fees and communications comply with professional rules.
The Professional must promptly report a loss or change of supervision. LegalHusk may pause the listing and active Orders until a lawful transition is documented.
8. Conflicts and Prospective Client Information
The Professional must maintain an effective conflicts system and conduct a timely conflict review before receiving unnecessary sensitive information or giving substantive advice. The Professional must treat duties to prospective clients as required by applicable law even if no Engagement Agreement is signed.
Before conflicts clearance, the Professional should request only information reasonably needed to identify parties, affiliates, the general nature of the matter, relevant jurisdictions, and urgent dates. The Professional must not invite a full narrative, privileged strategy, or sensitive evidence before the Professional can lawfully receive it.
The Professional must decline, obtain informed consent, implement screening, or take another action whenever required. LegalHusk does not clear conflicts and is not responsible for adverse consequences caused by a Professional's conflict.
9. Engagement Formation
No Professional Services relationship should begin until the Professional has completed required conflicts and eligibility checks, affirmatively accepted the matter, and provided a compliant Engagement Agreement. The Engagement Agreement is solely between the Client and Professional. LegalHusk is not a party and assumes no professional, fiduciary, guaranty, or trust duty under it.
The Engagement Agreement must identify at least:
- the Client and responsible Professional;
- the Professional's credential and service jurisdiction;
- scope, exclusions, deliverables, assumptions, milestones, revision limits, and timing;
- responsibility for deadlines, filing, service, appearance, signatures, notarization, translations, experts, local counsel, and expenses;
- the fee basis, advance fee treatment, taxes, expenses, billing, refunds, and any client trust account arrangements;
- communication methods, response expectations, confidentiality, privacy, technology, and file handling;
- termination, withdrawal, file delivery, complaint, fee dispute, insurance, and governing law information; and
- every writing, notice, consent, or disclosure required by local law or professional rules.
If an Order record conflicts with the Engagement Agreement, the Professional must correct the conflict before work continues.
10. Scope, Deadlines, and Client Instructions
The Professional must record scope and exclusions with enough precision for a reasonable Client to understand what is and is not included. The Professional may not accept a deadline that cannot reasonably be met and must not represent that payment or an inquiry alone transfers responsibility for a deadline.
Responsibility for a deadline begins only when the Professional expressly accepts it in writing. The Professional must identify dependencies, Client response dates, filing or service requirements, and circumstances that may change the schedule. Material delay must be communicated promptly.
Changes to scope, price, milestones, deliverables, or timing must be recorded through the Platform or another durable written record and accepted by the Client before the changed work begins, except where immediate action is reasonably necessary to protect the Client and law permits it.
The Professional must reject instructions that are fraudulent, unlawful, frivolous, abusive, misleading, obstructive, discriminatory, or inconsistent with professional duties.
11. Competence, Diligence, and Quality
The Professional must accept only matters the Professional is competent and authorized to handle, including competence concerning technology, privacy, cross border issues, and supervision where applicable. The Professional must perform with the diligence, communication, documentation, and quality required by law, the Engagement Agreement, and applicable professional standards.
The Professional is solely responsible for verifying facts, law, citations, authorities, calculations, forms, filing requirements, and deliverables. Platform templates, automated tools, or Client supplied material must not be relied upon without appropriate professional review.
The Professional must maintain a reasonable quality control process and correct material errors promptly. A revision process does not limit duties that cannot lawfully be limited.
12. Fees, Quotes, and Ethical Independence
The Professional independently sets the Professional Fee and must ensure that every fee arrangement is lawful, reasonable, adequately explained, and documented. A quote must identify the fee basis, included work, excluded work, expenses, taxes, deposits, advance fees, milestone allocation, cancellation treatment, and refund treatment.
The Professional remains responsible for fee agreements, contingent fee rules, billing records, client trust accounting, earned fee determinations, and return of unearned amounts. No Platform status, Client acceptance, automatic release, or support decision overrides these duties.
LegalHusk may separately charge fixed technology, listing, subscription, verification, or payment administration fees where lawful. Unless LegalHusk has completed a documented jurisdiction and profession review approving another model, LegalHusk will not calculate its compensation as a percentage or share of a lawyer's legal fee, condition compensation on a legal outcome, purchase a recommendation, or interfere with independent judgment.
The Professional must not relabel prohibited fee sharing, referral compensation, or payment for a recommendation as a Platform Fee. The Professional must alert LegalHusk before accepting any Order for which the displayed fee structure may violate applicable rules. LegalHusk may change or prohibit the structure.
13. Payment Provider and No Escrow
Payments are administered through the Payment Provider under separate terms. The Professional authorizes LegalHusk to transmit Order and payment instructions and authorizes the Payment Provider to process identity checks, payment authorizations, reserves, release, refunds, reversals, chargebacks, sanctions screening, tax reporting, and payouts.
LegalHusk is not a bank, money transmitter, trustee, client trust account, fiduciary, or escrow agent. Payment labels such as pending, protected, held, reserved, or scheduled for release describe administrative status only. They do not create an escrow or determine whether a Professional Fee is earned.
If professional rules require advance fees or client property to be deposited in a trust or client account, the Professional must use a compliant structure. The Professional must not direct an ordinary marketplace balance to receive funds that must be held in trust. LegalHusk may block or cancel an Order when the configured flow cannot comply.
14. Milestones, Delivery, and Payout
The Professional must mark a milestone complete only after delivering the agreed work in the agreed format. Delivery must be recorded through the Platform where available. The Professional must not mischaracterize partial, placeholder, inaccessible, or materially defective work as complete.
The Client may accept delivery or identify a specific scope or delivery issue during the displayed review period. Subject to mandatory law, professional duties, Payment Provider rules, fraud review, chargebacks, and disputes, payout may be scheduled after acceptance or expiration of the review period.
Automatic scheduling is not a legal determination that a fee is earned. The Professional must refund or return any amount required by law, professional rules, the Engagement Agreement, or a final decision of a competent authority.
15. Cancellations, Refunds, Reversals, and Chargebacks
The Professional must apply the Engagement Agreement, Payment Policy, mandatory consumer law, Payment Provider rules, and professional duties. Before acceptance, an Order may be cancelled subject to lawful charges. After acceptance, compensation should reflect services properly performed and amounts lawfully earned.
The Professional must respond promptly to evidence requests concerning a refund, reversal, chargeback, fraud review, or payment dispute. Evidence must be accurate, proportionate, and submitted without disclosing more privileged or confidential information than necessary. The Professional should use redaction, a privilege log, or Client consent where appropriate.
A card network or Payment Provider decision does not decide malpractice, fee reasonableness, professional discipline, or the parties' ultimate legal rights. The Professional remains responsible for outstanding amounts lawfully owed to the Client, LegalHusk, the Payment Provider, a tax authority, or another person.
16. Taxes and Records
The Professional is responsible for determining and paying taxes, registrations, duties, levies, insurance, and reporting obligations arising from Professional Services and marketplace income. LegalHusk or the Payment Provider may collect tax information, withhold amounts, issue forms, or report transactions where required.
The Professional must maintain complete and accurate records of inquiries, conflicts decisions, engagement terms, scope changes, time and charges where relevant, delivery, Client instructions, consents, funds, trust accounting, invoices, taxes, complaints, file disposition, and required professional records. Retention must satisfy the longest applicable legal, professional, tax, insurance, and contractual period.
17. Confidentiality, Privilege, and Security
The Professional is responsible for professional confidentiality, privilege, work product, secure communication, access control, file handling, breach response, and notification duties for matter information. The Professional must assess whether the Platform is suitable for the sensitivity of each matter and use additional safeguards when required.
The Professional must:
- access matter information only through authorized accounts and devices;
- use strong authentication and protect credentials;
- limit staff and contractor access to a lawful need;
- maintain confidentiality agreements and appropriate supervision;
- use reasonable encryption, malware protection, patching, backup, disposal, and incident controls;
- avoid public or insecure tools for confidential information unless the use is lawful and appropriately protected; and
- notify LegalHusk at [email protected] without undue delay of suspected unauthorized access affecting the Platform or another User.
The Professional must not disclose privileged or confidential information to support unless reasonably necessary and lawful. Administrative disputes should use redacted evidence where practicable.
18. Privacy and Data Roles
For account, verification, marketplace, safety, support, analytics, and payment administration data, LegalHusk generally acts as an independent controller or business. For matter information received to evaluate or perform Professional Services, the Professional generally acts as a separate controller, regulated custodian, or other role assigned by law.
Each party is responsible for its own notices, lawful bases, rights handling, security, retention, disclosures, international transfers, and regulator cooperation. A separate Data Processing Addendum applies only when LegalHusk processes Personal Data solely on the Professional's documented instructions and the parties expressly identify that processing.
The Professional must not instruct LegalHusk to process information unlawfully. The Professional must assist with a privacy request, security incident, or regulator inquiry to the extent relevant to the Professional's processing and lawful to do so.
19. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools
The Professional remains fully responsible for any artificial intelligence, automation, research, drafting, translation, analytics, or decision support tool used in Professional Services. The Professional must assess confidentiality, privilege, security, vendor training, retention, accuracy, bias, explainability, supervision, and cross border transfer risks before use.
The Professional must provide notice, obtain consent, or refrain from use when required by law, professional rules, the Engagement Agreement, or the nature of the matter. The Professional must verify output and must not submit fabricated citations, facts, evidence, or work product.
The Professional may not upload private matter information to a general purpose model for training or unrelated use. LegalHusk's Platform tools do not reduce the Professional's duties.
20. Profile Content, Advertising, and Communications
All profile, proposal, message, quote, portfolio, availability, price, outcome, review response, and advertising content must be truthful, current, substantiated, and lawful. The Professional must not create unjustified expectations, guarantee a result, compare without support, misuse a specialist designation, conceal material limitations, or imply government or LegalHusk approval.
The Professional must comply with solicitation, referral, advertising, record retention, disclaimer, language, and targeted communication rules. Sponsored placement must be used only where lawful and must remain clearly labeled.
The Professional may communicate directly with a Client for the engagement. The Professional must keep material scope, fee, acceptance, delivery, and change records on the Platform when required for transaction administration.
21. Reviews and Marketplace Integrity
The Professional must not create, purchase, trade, pressure, suppress, manipulate, or retaliate concerning a review. An incentive, if lawful and permitted, must not depend on positive or negative sentiment and must be clearly disclosed.
The Professional may respond professionally without revealing confidential, privileged, personal, or misleading information. A disagreement with criticism is not by itself a basis for removal. The Review Policy governs moderation and appeals.
The Professional must not manipulate ranking, referrals, availability, completed Orders, disputes, payments, or verification. The Professional must not create sham Orders or move an existing Order off Platform through deception to avoid a properly disclosed Platform Fee. Nothing restricts a Client's lawful right to change counsel or end an engagement.
22. Insurance
The Professional must maintain professional liability, cyber, general business, workers compensation, and other insurance required by law or reasonably appropriate to the services. Any displayed insurance status is based on submitted evidence and does not guarantee coverage for a particular claim.
The Professional must notify LegalHusk of cancellation, nonrenewal, material reduction, denial of coverage affecting eligibility, or exhaustion of limits. Upon request, the Professional must provide current evidence, insurer contact information, and relevant coverage details to the extent lawful.
23. Complaints and Regulatory Cooperation
The Professional must maintain the complaint channels and notices required by professional and consumer law. The Professional must respond to a LegalHusk administrative complaint request within the stated time and provide accurate, proportionate evidence.
LegalHusk support may review objective Platform issues, facilitate communication, pause a payout where permitted, refund LegalHusk's own Platform Fee, or impose account measures. LegalHusk does not decide malpractice, ethics, legal advice correctness, fee reasonableness, or liability.
The Professional must cooperate with lawful requests from regulators, courts, insurers, fee arbitration programs, the Payment Provider, and LegalHusk. Nothing requires waiver of privilege or breach of a professional duty. The Professional should identify the restriction and provide a lawful alternative where possible.
24. Suspension, Termination, and Active Matters
LegalHusk may review, restrict, suspend, or terminate a Professional account for breach, false credentials, discipline, unauthorized practice, loss of eligibility, safety risk, fraud, sanctions concern, payment risk, data risk, repeated service failure, regulatory concern, or legal obligation. Immediate action may be taken where delay could cause harm.
When reasonable and lawful, LegalHusk will provide notice and an opportunity to respond. The Professional may close the account subject to active Orders, payment obligations, record retention, legal holds, and professional duties.
Suspension or termination does not end duties to Clients. The Professional must protect deadlines, communicate status, provide the file, refund unearned amounts, withdraw lawfully, arrange substitute counsel where required, and avoid foreseeable prejudice. LegalHusk may preserve limited access or records to support an orderly transition subject to security and law.
25. Intellectual Property and Work Product
LegalHusk retains rights in the Platform, software, branding, workflows, and LegalHusk created content. The Professional receives a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the Platform for authorized marketplace activity.
The Professional retains rights in profile and portfolio content submitted by the Professional and grants LegalHusk the limited license stated in the Terms to host, display, transmit, secure, and promote public listing content. The Professional warrants that the Professional has all necessary rights and permissions.
Ownership and permitted use of matter work product must be addressed in the Engagement Agreement. The Professional must not reuse confidential Client material, proprietary third party content, or another person's work without authority.
26. Representations and Continuing Warranties
The Professional represents and warrants that information supplied to LegalHusk, Clients, the Payment Provider, and regulators is accurate and not misleading; that Professional Services and content will comply with law and professional duties; that the Professional has authority to use submitted content and data; and that no acceptance of this Agreement conflicts with another obligation.
These representations continue for every day the Professional uses the Platform and every active Order. The Professional must correct a breach immediately and notify LegalHusk if the breach may affect another person or the Platform.
27. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, the Professional will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless LegalHusk and its affiliates, officers, directors, and employees from third party claims, regulatory proceedings, losses, sanctions, assessments, refunds, chargebacks, and reasonable legal costs arising from the Professional's Professional Services, professional negligence, unauthorized practice, false credentials, unlawful advertising, breach of confidentiality, misuse of funds, tax failure, infringement, unlawful instruction, or material breach of this Agreement.
The Professional has no duty to indemnify LegalHusk for loss caused by LegalHusk's fraud, willful misconduct, or negligence to the extent applicable law prohibits shifting that responsibility. LegalHusk will provide reasonable notice and control of the defense, subject to conflicts and regulatory duties. The Professional may not settle a claim that admits wrongdoing by or imposes obligations on LegalHusk without written consent.
28. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
The disclaimers and limitation of liability in the Marketplace Terms and Conditions apply to the Professional's use of Platform Services. LegalHusk does not guarantee inquiries, Orders, payment, ranking, uninterrupted access, Client accuracy, suitability of a matter, regulatory acceptance, or any result.
Nothing in this Agreement limits a liability or remedy that applicable law does not permit the parties to limit. Professional liability to a Client is governed by the Engagement Agreement, professional law, and other applicable law, not by LegalHusk's Platform liability cap.
29. Disputes With LegalHusk
The informal resolution and Delaware governing law and exclusive court provisions in the Marketplace Terms and Conditions apply to every dispute between the Professional and LegalHusk concerning the Platform, Platform Services, marketplace participation, or this Agreement. They do not govern a dispute solely between a Client and Professional.
These Terms and any dispute, controversy, or difference arising out of, relating to, or in connection with the Platform, Platform Services, or this Agreement are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America, without giving effect to its conflict of laws principles.
Subject only to mandatory law that cannot lawfully be waived, any dispute, controversy, or difference which may arise between the parties out of, in relation to, or in connection with this Agreement is hereby irrevocably submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Delaware, United States of America, to the exclusion of any other courts, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or the Professional's actual state or country of residence.
For this purpose, the courts of Delaware include the state courts of the State of Delaware and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, as subject matter jurisdiction permits. Each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts and waives any objection based on inconvenient forum, except to the extent applicable law makes that waiver unenforceable.
Nothing in this choice of law or forum clause deprives a consumer, data subject, or other protected person of a right, remedy, forum, or protection that applicable law makes mandatory and nonwaivable. Nothing prevents a report or complaint to a court, bar association, licensing authority, consumer protection body, data protection authority, law enforcement agency, or other competent regulator.
Before filing a claim against LegalHusk, the Professional must send notice to [email protected] identifying the Professional, account, relevant Order, facts, legal basis, requested relief, and contact information, subject to the urgent relief and regulatory exceptions in the Terms.
30. General Terms
The Professional may not assign this Agreement, transfer an account, or delegate responsibility for an Order without LegalHusk's written approval and compliance with professional duties. LegalHusk may assign this Agreement as permitted by the Terms.
If a provision is invalid, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remainder will continue. A failure to enforce is not a waiver. This Agreement, the incorporated documents, and accepted Orders constitute the entire agreement between LegalHusk and the Professional concerning Professional marketplace participation.
Provisions concerning fees, records, confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, active matter transition, liability, indemnity, disputes, and terms that by nature should survive will continue after account closure.
31. Acceptance
By selecting the acceptance control or using a Professional account, the Professional confirms that the Professional has read, understood, and agrees to this Agreement; has authority to bind the listed person or entity; understands that LegalHusk is not a law firm or escrow agent; and accepts sole responsibility for compliance with applicable professional duties.
Questions and legal notices may be sent to [email protected]. LegalHusk is located in the United States.