Terms of use

Last updated September 8, 2026

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: NOT A LAW FIRM
Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc. is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. The information, tools, and content provided on this website are for educational and informational purposes only. Use of our Services does not create an attorney-client relationship. If you need legal advice for your specific situation, you should consult with a licensed attorney.

Welcome to Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc. (“Briefcase,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing or using our website at https://nextbriefcase.com (the “Site”) and any related service that presents these terms (collectively, the “Services”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (“Terms”).

If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Services.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By using the Services, you affirm that you are at least 18, or of legal age where you live, and competent to enter into these Terms.

If you use the Services on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to accept these Terms on its behalf, and “you” means both you and that organization.

2. Description of Services

2(a). What this website provides

The Site is a public information and waitlist website. It publishes Briefcase's account of the Personal Law category, the company and the people behind it, the security and privacy posture, the boundary between legal information and legal advice, and the evidence behind what it says. It carries waitlist forms for individuals, founders, businesses, attorneys, and investors, and inquiry forms for media, speaking, brand asset, and partnership requests.

The Site does not offer visitor accounts or sign-in, file upload, messaging between visitors, publication of anything a visitor writes, or a tool a visitor operates on their own information. We do not publish what you submit through a form on the Site.

2(b). Forms and submissions

Submitting a form is voluntary. Each form asks for the fields shown on it, and beside its submit control it requires you to agree to these Terms and to the Privacy notice. That acceptance is recorded with the submission, with its date and the version of these Terms accepted. Submissions are checked before they are accepted, and a submission may be declined. What each form collects, how a submission is checked, and how that information is handled are described in that notice.

The forms do not ask for the facts of a legal matter. Do not send them, or sensitive personal information, or anything you would not want held outside a privileged relationship.

2(c). Services beyond this website

These Terms govern this website and any other Briefcase service that presents them. Where such a service offers a feature this website does not, such as an account or one that uses artificial intelligence, the Section addressing that feature governs it.

2(d). Changes to the Services

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Services, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice, and we are not liable to you or to anyone else for doing so.

3. No Legal Advice; No Attorney-Client Relationship

3.1. Informational Purposes Only. The content on the Site, including text, graphics, images, and tools, is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional legal advice, diagnosis, or representation.

3.2. No Attorney-Client Relationship. Your use of the Services, including submission of forms or use of AI tools, does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc. Communications between you and Briefcase are not protected by the attorney-client privilege.

4. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disclaimer

Where a Briefcase service offers a feature that uses Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) to draft, summarize, or analyze information:

• Accuracy: AI may produce inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading results. Verify any AI-generated output with a qualified professional before relying on it.
• No Liability: Briefcase is not responsible for errors, omissions, or damages resulting from the use of AI-generated content.

5. User Accounts and Security

Where a Briefcase service offers accounts and you create one, you are responsible for your login credentials and for everything done under your account. Tell us immediately of any unauthorized use. Briefcase is not liable for loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your account.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Services to, and not to attempt to:

• Violate any applicable law or regulation.
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
• Submit false, inaccurate, or misleading information through a form, or submit another person's information without their permission.
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with any security feature, rate limit, access control, or automated-submission check that protects the Site or its forms.
• Gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, to any server or infrastructure that serves it, or to any account, system, or data connected to it.
• Collect, scrape, or harvest personal data from the Site or its forms, or use anything on the Site to assemble a list of people to contact.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Services, or derive their source code, except where applicable law prohibits that restriction.
• Place an unreasonable or disproportionate load on the Site or its infrastructure, including through automated, repeated, or high-volume requests.
• Introduce any virus, malware, or other code intended to damage, disrupt, or gain unauthorized access to the Services.
• Engage in conduct that restricts anyone's use of the Services or that may harm Briefcase or its users.

The Site runs automated anti-abuse measures, and they can block or delay a request or decline a submission. The Privacy notice describes what those checks receive. If a legitimate request of yours is blocked, email support@nextbriefcase.com.

7. Automated Access and Quotation

The Site is published to be read, quoted, and cited, by people and by machines. It serves a robots file at /robots.txt, machine-readable summaries at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, and metadata that asks search engines and answer engines for full snippets and large image previews.

Access by a crawler, indexer, answer engine, or other automated agent is permitted where it follows those published instructions and complies with Section 6. Automated access that ignores the robots file, evades a rate limit or an anti-abuse check, submits a form, or copies the Site wholesale for republication is not permitted. Briefcase may change the published instructions at any time, and may withdraw this permission for a particular agent.

8. Intellectual Property Rights

8(a). Ownership

The Site and its contents, features, and functionality, including all text, software, images, video, and audio, and their design, selection, and arrangement, are owned by Briefcase or its licensors and protected by United States and international intellectual property laws.

Except as Section 7 and Section 8(b) permit, you may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our Site without our prior written consent.

8(b). Uses the Site permits

The following do not require separate written consent:

• Quoting the Site with attribution to Briefcase, including snippets and previews by search engines and answer engines consistent with the metadata and robots instructions the Site publishes.
• Using the machine-readable files at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt as they are published.
• Using the logo package, founder biography and photograph, approved boilerplate, and company facts that Briefcase supplies through the brand asset desk on the newsroom page, for the purpose they were supplied for and on any terms stated when they are supplied.

Do not alter the marks, and do not use the name, marks, or supplied materials in a way that suggests endorsement, affiliation, or a relationship that does not exist. Nothing in these Terms grants a license to the Briefcase name, logos, or marks beyond what this Section permits.

8(c). Copyright complaints

If you believe material published on the Site infringes a copyright you own or control, send a written notice to the postal address in Section 20, marked for the attention of Copyright, with a copy by email to support@nextbriefcase.com. Include:

• Identification of the work you claim has been infringed.
• The address of the material on the Site you are complaining about, specific enough for it to be located.
• Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

This is a contact route for complaints about material Briefcase itself publishes on the Site. The Site hosts no material submitted by visitors. Briefcase has not registered a designated agent with the United States Copyright Office, and this Section is not such a registration.

9. Third-Party Links and Resources

The Services may contain links to third-party websites or resources. We provide them as a convenience and are not responsible for their content, products, or services. You assume all risk arising from your use of them.

The forms on the Services are protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise, a Google service that helps us distinguish people from automated submissions. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Some submissions are also screened by an automated service before they are accepted. The Privacy notice describes both.

10. Reporting a Security Issue

Reports of a suspected security vulnerability in the Site are welcome. Email support@nextbriefcase.com with Security in the subject line, and include what you found, the address or request involved, and the steps needed to reproduce it. A person will respond.

Report a suspected issue rather than testing how far it goes. Do not run automated scanning, load testing, or denial-of-service testing against the Site, and do not access, alter, or delete data that is not your own.

11. Accessibility

Briefcase is committed to digital accessibility. The target for the public experience is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA. Content and components are reviewed as the site changes, and a reported barrier is treated as a defect.

To report a barrier, email support@nextbriefcase.com with the page, what you were trying to do, and the browser or assistive technology involved. A person will respond. The full statement is at Accessibility.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.

Briefcase disclaims all warranties, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that any defects will be corrected.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Where the law of such a jurisdiction applies to you, some or all of these exclusions may not, and you may have additional rights.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc., its affiliates, or their licensors, service providers, employees, agents, officers, or directors be liable for damages of any kind, under any legal theory, arising out of or in connection with your use, or inability to use, the Services, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages.

The exclusion above governs first. If it is held unenforceable, in whole or in part, the total liability of those parties for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Services will not exceed one hundred United States dollars (US$100) in the aggregate.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. Where the law of such a jurisdiction applies to you, some or all of this Section may not, and you may have additional rights. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

14. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Briefcase and its affiliates, licensors, and service providers against any claim, liability, damage, judgment, award, loss, cost, expense, or fee, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms or your use of the Services.

15. Termination and Suspension of Access

Briefcase may suspend or terminate your access to the Services, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice, if you breach these Terms, if Briefcase reasonably believes your use harms the Services or another person, or if the law requires it. The automated measures in Section 6 may also block a request without notice.

You may stop using the Services at any time. Termination does not affect a right or obligation that accrued before it, and the Sections named in Section 19(d) continue to apply.

16. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

This Section governs any dispute between you and Briefcase. It replaces court and jury trial for most claims. Section 16(d) says how to reject it.

16(a). Notice of dispute

Before filing anything, the party with the dispute sends the other a written notice describing it and saying what is wanted. Yours goes to the postal address in Section 20, copied by email to support@nextbriefcase.com. Ours goes to an address we hold for you. Neither party files for 60 days after the notice arrives. The period in Section 19(g) does not run during those 60 days.

16(b). Arbitration

If those 60 days pass without a settlement, you and Briefcase agree that the dispute is decided by binding individual arbitration and not in court, except as Sections 16(c), 16(d), and 16(f) provide. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section.

JAMS administers the arbitration under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures and its Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards, published at https://www.jamsadr.com, and one arbitrator decides it. If JAMS is unavailable or declines, the parties choose another established administrator, and failing agreement a court with jurisdiction appoints one under Section 5 of the Federal Arbitration Act. The hearing is by video, by telephone, in the county where you live, or in Nashville, Tennessee, at your choice, unless the parties agree otherwise. The arbitrator may award only the individual relief a court could award on that claim. The award is in writing and states the findings and conclusions it rests on, and it may be entered as a judgment in any court with jurisdiction.

16(c). Small claims

Either party may instead bring an individual claim in a small claims court with jurisdiction over it, for as long as the claim stays in that court and stays individual.

16(d). Rejecting this Section

You may reject this Section by writing to support@nextbriefcase.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms with your name and the email address you use with us, and rejecting it changes nothing else in these Terms or in your use of the Site, leaving a dispute to the courts in Section 17.

16(e). Costs

The administrator's rules govern the fees of the arbitration, and Briefcase pays what those rules assign to it. Each party pays its own attorneys' fees and costs, except that the arbitrator may award fees and costs against a party for a claim or defense that is frivolous or brought in bad faith, to the extent the administrator's rules and applicable law permit.

16(f). No class or representative proceedings

Claims are brought only in an individual capacity, and never as a plaintiff or class member in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of more than one person and may not preside over any class, collective, or representative proceeding.

Notwithstanding Section 19(a), this Section 16(f) is not severable. If it is held unenforceable as to a claim, the whole of Section 16 does not apply to that claim and it proceeds in the courts in Section 17. A class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding is never arbitrated.

16(g). Coordinated filings

Where 25 or more substantially similar demands are filed against Briefcase by or with the coordination of the same counsel, they proceed in batches rather than all at once. The parties each select up to five demands from the first batch, and only those are arbitrated at that stage. The parties then use the outcomes to try to settle the rest, and a further batch proceeds if that fails. The period in Section 19(g) is tolled for every demand awaiting its batch, and an outcome does not bind a claimant whose demand was not heard. The administrator's rules for coordinated or mass filings govern anything this subsection does not address.

16(h). Confidentiality

The parties keep the arbitration and its award confidential, to the extent applicable law permits. This does not restrict a disclosure required by law, one to a party's counsel, accountants, or insurers, or one needed to enforce or challenge an award.

16(i). Jury trial

For any claim heard in court rather than in arbitration, including a small claims matter, a claim brought after a rejection under Section 16(d), and a claim this Section does not reach, you and Briefcase each waive the right to a trial by jury, to the extent applicable law permits.

17. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Subject to Section 16, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to its conflict of law provisions, and any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms or the Services is instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of Tennessee, in each case located in the City of Nashville and County of Davidson. You consent to the jurisdiction and venue of those courts. Section 16 governs every dispute it reaches, and this Section covers the rest.

18. Changes to Terms

We may revise these Terms. A revised version is posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date, which is how to tell whether they have changed since you last read them. Where a change is material, the revised Terms carry a note identifying it, and notice may also be sent to an email address you provided through a form on the Site.

Your continued use of the Services after a revised version is posted means you accept it. If you do not agree, stop using the Services.

19. General Provisions

19(a). Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions stay in full force, except as Section 16(f) provides.

19(b). Entire agreement

These Terms, the Privacy notice, and any additional terms Briefcase presents for a specific service are the entire agreement between you and Briefcase regarding the Services, and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understanding on that subject.

19(c). Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms, or any right or obligation under them, without our prior written consent, and any attempt to do so is void. Briefcase may assign them without restriction, including to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets. These Terms bind and benefit the parties and their permitted successors and assigns.

19(d). Survival

Sections 3 (No Legal Advice; No Attorney-Client Relationship), 8 (Intellectual Property Rights), 12 (Disclaimer of Warranties), 13 (Limitation of Liability), 14 (Indemnification), 16 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), 17 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction), and this Section 19 survive any termination of your access to the Services or of these Terms.

19(e). Notices

Notices to Briefcase are given in writing to the postal address in Section 20, with a copy by email to support@nextbriefcase.com, and are effective on delivery. Briefcase may give notice to you by posting on the Site or, where it holds an email address you provided, by email to that address.

19(f). Force majeure

Briefcase is not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by an event beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, epidemic, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor conditions, government action, power or telecommunications failure, failure of a hosting or network provider, and denial-of-service or other malicious attack.

19(g). Time to bring a claim

To the extent applicable law permits, any claim arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms must be filed within one year after it arose, and a claim filed later is permanently barred. Where the law that applies to you does not permit a limit of this kind, this subsection does not apply to you.

20. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms reach a person through the support form, which files them in a queue rather than a mailbox. Post and email also reach us: