TERMS OF USE
Effective Date: 7/12/2025
These terms of use ("TOU") govern your access to and use of the website www.willassoc.com,owned and operated by WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES, ("we", "us", “firm”, or "our"), an experienced commercial real estate law firm serving clients in the jurisdictions in which its attorneys are licensed, carrying on its business operations at - 633 West Fifth Street, 26th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071.
Please read the Terms of Service carefully before you start to use the Site. By accessing, browsing, registering to use the Site, or Services or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Service & our privacy policy when this option is made available to you, you acknowledge that you have read, understood accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy, incorporated herein by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use & Privacy Policy, do not use any portion of the Site, or the Services. Failure to use the Site in accordance with these Terms & Privacy Policy may subject you to civil and criminal penalties.
If you do not agree with all of the provisions of this agreement, you cannot use the Services. To remove any doubt, in the event of any conflict or discrepancy between these Terms and conditions and any other provisions and/or terms and/or otherwise between us and you, the provisions and the terms of these Terms of Use will prevail. Please feel free to contact us with any questions regarding the content of this agreement.
1. USAGE/ ELIGIBILITY
This Site is intended for individuals 18 years of age or older.. You will use this site in a manner consistent with any, and all, applicable laws, legislation, rules and regulations. If you violate any restrictions in these terms, you agree to indemnify WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATESfor any losses, costs or damages, including reasonable legal fees, incurred by WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATESin relation to, or arising out of, such a breach.
2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
These Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you” or “your” or “user”) and WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES(“WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES”, “we”, “us” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the website. You agree that by accessing the Site, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions and Privacy Policy incorporated. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TOU, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SITE AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.
In these Terms, “you” and “your” refer to the individual or entity that uses the Site, or Services. “We”, “us”, or “our” refer to WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES. In addition, in these Terms, unless the context requires otherwise, words in one gender include all genders and words in the singular include the plural and vice-versa.
3. ABOUT WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES SERVICES
At Williams and Associates, we are committed to delivering exceptional legal services with a focus on commercial real estate and business law. As a highly regarded firm staffed by accomplished attorneys, we bring unmatched depth, precision, and insight to every matter entrusted to us. Our dedication to excellence has earned us numerous recognitions and honors within the legal community.
Our principal attorney, Norma J. Williams, has devoted her entire career to the practice of commercial real estate law. She is widely respected and well-known on a national level for her extensive contributions to the field, her thought leadership, and her representation of a distinguished client base. Under her guidance, our firm provides clients with strategic, results-driven counsel rooted in decades of experience and a proven record of success.
Williams and Associates stands as a trusted partner for individuals and businesses seeking sophisticated legal solutions, attentive service, and unwavering professionalism.
4. EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR EXTERNAL LINKS
The Website may provide links to external Internet sites such as (Other legal organizations, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Amazon etc.)., WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES hereby declares explicitly that it has no influence on the layout or content of linked pages and dissociates itself expressly from all contents of all linked pages of third parties. WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES shall not be liable for the use or content of Internet sites that link to this site, or which are linked from it. Our privacy and cookie notice do not apply to any collection and processing of your personal data on or through such external sites.
5. ACCESSING OUR SITE
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy as described below.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
6. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards as described below;
to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use;
not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
any software used in the provision of our site; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
Where the Site permits users to submit information through forms or other limited interactive features, users must ensure all submissions comply with the content standards in these Terms.Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used.
We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.
Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.
You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the latter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Contributions must:
be accurate (where they state facts).
be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
comply with applicable law in the United States and in any country from which they are posted.
Contributions must not:
contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
promote sexually explicit material;
promote violence;
promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
be likely to deceive any person;
be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
promote any illegal activity;
be threatening, abuse or invade another´s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case;
advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site;
immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site;
issue of a warning to you;
legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
further legal action against you;
disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
7. COMMUNICATIONS POLICY
While we are happy to have you contact us by telephone, surface mail, electronic mail or facsimile transmission, merely communicating with Williams & Associates or any lawyer of the firm does not create a lawyer-client relationship unless and until an agreement has been reached between you and the firm to handle a particular matter. Please do not convey to us any information you regard as confidential until a formal lawyer-client relationship has been established. Any information we receive from you prior to the formal establishment of such a relationship will not be confidential.
Williams & Associates is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others. Williams & Associates collects information from our users at several different points on our website.
Our website offers several opportunities for visitors to register for informational update and alert mailings, events, and for assistance in using our online resources. These registration and sign-up forms are often linked to our mailing list and require users to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this contact information to send users information about our firm and their selected areas of interest when requested or necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time.
8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Unless otherwise indicated, the Site is our proprietary property and all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the Site (collectively, the “Content”) and the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by us or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of the United States, foreign jurisdictions, and international conventions. The Content and the Marks are provided on the Site “AS IS” for your information and personal use only. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.
Provided that you are eligible to use the Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Site, the Content, and the Marks.
9. YOUR REPRESENTATIONS
By using the Site, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms of Use (4) you are not under the age of 18; (5) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction of which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the Site; (6) you will not access the Site through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise; (7) you will not use the Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose and (8) your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation.
If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Site (or any portion thereof).
10. ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND TIMELINESS OF INFORMATION
We are not responsible if information made available on this site is not accurate, complete or current. The material on this site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or timelier sources of information. Any reliance on the material on this site is at your own risk.
This site may contain certain historical information. Historical information, necessarily, is not current and is provided for your reference only. We reserve the right to modify the contents of this site at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information on our site. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to our site, including these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.
11. RESPONSE TO ONLINE REQUESTS
From time to time, we may offer to provide information or materials via electronic mail or otherwise to interested persons. Williams & Associates reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to reject any requests for such information or materials, or to discontinue the provision of such information or materials to any person, for any reason whatsoever.
12. ELECTRONIC CORRESPONDENCE TO THE FIRM AND AFFILIATED SERVERS
While we are happy to have you contact us by telephone, surface mail, electronic mail or facsimile transmission, merely communicating with Williams & Associates or any of our firms’ lawyer does not create a lawyer-client relationship unless and until an agreement has been reached between you and the firm to handle a particular matter. Please do not convey to us any information you regard as confidential until a formal lawyer-client relationship has been established. Any information you convey to the firm via the Internet may not be secure, and information conveyed prior to establishing a lawyer-client relationship may not be privileged or confidential.
13. INDEMNIFICATION.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES, and our respective past, present and future employees, officers, directors, contractors, consultants, equity holders, suppliers, vendors, service providers, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns (individually and collectively, the “WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES Parties”), from and against all actual or alleged WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES Party or third party claims, damages, awards, judgments, losses, liabilities, obligations, penalties, interest, fees, expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees and expenses) and costs (including, without limitation, court costs, costs of settlement and costs of pursuing indemnification and insurance), of every kind and nature whatsoever, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, matured or unmatured, or suspected or unsuspected, in law or equity, whether in tort, contract or otherwise (collectively, “Claims”), including, but not limited to, damages to property or personal injury, that are caused by, arise out of or are related to (a) your use or misuse of the Sites, Content or Services, (b) any Feedback you provide, (c) your violation of these Terms, (d) your violation of the rights of another, (e) any third party’s use or misuse of the Site or Services provided to you and (f) any User Content you create, post, share or store on or through the Site or our pages or feeds on third party social media platforms. You agree to promptly notify WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES of any third-party Claims and cooperate with the WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES Parties in defending such Claims. You further agree that the WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES Parties shall have control of the defense or settlement of any third-party Claims. This indemnity is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other indemnities set forth in a written agreement between you and WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES.
14. WEBSITE DISCLAIMERS.
Your access to and use of the services and content provided on the site are at YOUR OWN RISK. You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, (WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES ENTITIES are WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES founders, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, and partners) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, and OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
15. NO LEGAL ADVICE
The information provided on this Site is intended solely for general informational purposes and should not be construed as legal advice. While we strive to ensure the accuracy of the content, it does not establish an attorney–client relationship, nor should it be relied upon as a substitute for professional legal counsel tailored to your specific situation.
16. NO ATTORNEY CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
Submitting information via this Site, including through contact forms or email, does not create an attorney–client relationship. An attorney–client relationship will only be established after we have completed a conflict of interest check and entered into a formal written engagement agreement. Until such an agreement is executed, any information shared with us will not be considered confidential or privileged.17. CHANGES
If WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES decides to change these general terms and conditions, we will post the changed terms and conditions on the Website. You are advised to regularly check whether they have changed. Existing contracts will not be affected by such changes. In addition to these Terms of Use, we maintain other important documents that govern your use of our services:
Privacy Policy: Our Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information. By using our services, you agree to the terms set forth in the Privacy Policy.
Legal Disclaimer: Our Legal Disclaimer provides important legal information regarding the limitations of our liability and the scope of our services. Please read the disclaimer carefully before using our platform.
Cookie Policy: Our Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience on our website. By using our services, you consent to the use of cookies as described in the Cookie Policy.
18. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These general terms and conditions in relation to the use of the site is hereby governed by and constructed and enforced in accordance with the laws of California. The competent courts inCalifornia shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any dispute between you and WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES.