Terms of Use
1. Who may use the Service
Nomos Engine (the "Service") is offered to attorneys licensed to practice law, and to staff working under the supervision of such an attorney. By creating an account you represent that you are either a licensed attorney in good standing or authorized personnel acting under an attorney's supervision, and that you are at least 18 years old.
The Service is not offered to consumers seeking legal help for their own matters, and is not a substitute for retaining counsel.
2. What the Service is — and is not
The Service provides legal research over Texas primary legal materials, matter and document management, deposition recording and draft transcription, document formatting assistance, and related practice tools.
The Service does not provide legal advice and does not practice law. Using the Service does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Nomos Engine, and no communication with the Service or its operators is a substitute for the independent professional judgment of a licensed attorney.
Nothing produced by the Service is a legal opinion, a recommendation about how to handle a matter, or a representation that any authority is controlling, current, or applicable to your facts.
3. Your professional responsibility
You are solely responsible for your practice of law and for compliance with all rules governing it, including the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, applicable rules of civil and criminal procedure, and every local rule and standing order of the courts in which you appear.
You agree that before relying on, filing, or serving any output of the Service you will:
- read each cited authority in its official source and confirm it says what the output says it says;
- confirm the authority remains good law and applies to your facts and jurisdiction;
- independently review the accuracy and completeness of any document, transcript, or summary the Service produces; and
- comply with any court order or local rule requiring disclosure or certification of artificial-intelligence-assisted content, including certifications that a human verified such content.
Several Texas district courts have entered standing orders imposing such certification requirements, with sanctions available for non-compliance. Meeting those obligations is your responsibility, not ours.
4. AI limitations, error, and bias
The Service uses automated systems, including artificial intelligence, and those systems can produce output that is incorrect, incomplete, outdated, or misleading. Automated systems may also reflect bias present in their sources or design.
The Service includes a verification step that checks whether language presented as a quotation appears verbatim in the authority cited, and that is designed to withhold or abstain from unsupported claims. That check confirms textual correspondence only. It does not determine that the cited authority is controlling, that it remains good law, that it resolves your legal question, or that the research is complete. No verification step in the Service removes your obligation under Section 3.
We do not warrant that the Service will identify all relevant authority, or that authority it omits is immaterial.
5. Client data and custody
Client documents and matter content you place in the Service are encrypted at rest and are held for your practice. Our design intent is that client files remain in the custody of the attorney rather than pooled in a vendor-controlled repository, and we do not sell client data or client content.
You may export a complete case file for any matter at any time. You are responsible for maintaining your own backups and for the retention and destruction schedule your ethical and contractual obligations require.
You are responsible for having any client consent or authorization needed before placing client information into the Service, and for determining whether doing so is consistent with your confidentiality obligations.
Where encryption keys are held on equipment you control, loss of those keys may make encrypted material permanently unrecoverable, and we cannot recover it for you.
6. Deposition recordings and transcripts
Transcripts generated by the Service are rough, uncertified, machine-generated drafts. They are not certified transcripts, the Service is not a court reporter, and no person associated with the Service is acting as a certified shorthand reporter under Texas law. Where a rule, order, or your own judgment requires a certified transcript, you must obtain one from a certified reporter.
You are solely responsible for the legality of any recording you make or upload, including obtaining all consents and notices required by the applicable rules of procedure and by federal and state recording law, and for any notice obligations to deponents and opposing counsel.
7. Scope of legal coverage
The Service's legal research covers Texas primary legal materials. It is not a national research service, and it is designed to decline questions directed at other states' law rather than answer them from Texas material. Coverage of any particular body of authority may be incomplete or may lag official sources, and materials are provided as acquired from their sources.
8. Accounts and security
You are responsible for the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity under your account. You must notify us promptly of any suspected unauthorized access. You may not share a single attorney seat among multiple attorneys.
If you sign in using a third-party identity provider, your use of that provider remains governed by that provider's own terms, and you authorize us to receive the basic profile and email information needed to create and authenticate your account.
9. Subscriptions, billing, and cancellation
Paid plans are billed per attorney seat, in advance, on the term you select. Fees are stated exclusive of taxes. Annual plans are billed for the full term at the start of the term; month-to-month plans renew each month until cancelled.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the start of the next term. You may cancel at any time and will retain access through the end of the period already paid for. Except where required by law, fees already paid are non-refundable. Usage limits stated for a plan (for example, the number of deposition transcripts included per month) apply per attorney seat and do not carry over between periods.
We may change pricing on renewal with at least 30 days' notice before the renewal date. Free trials, where offered, convert to a paid subscription only if you elect to continue.
10. Acceptable use
You may not: use the Service to provide legal services you are not licensed to provide; attempt to defeat, disable, or misrepresent the verification or abstention behavior described in Section 4; present Service output as certified, or as the work of a court reporter; misrepresent machine-generated content as independently verified when it has not been; resell or provide the Service to third parties as a substitute for their own subscription; scrape, bulk-extract, or redistribute the Service's compiled legal corpus; upload malicious code; or use the Service to violate any law or court order.
11. Intellectual property
The Service, including its software, interfaces, and compiled research materials, is owned by Nomos Engine and its licensors. You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service during your subscription for your own legal practice.
You retain all rights in your client documents, matter content, recordings, and work product. You grant us only the limited rights necessary to host, process, encrypt, transmit, and display that content in order to operate the Service for you.
Primary legal materials — statutes, court opinions, and similar government works — are not claimed as our property.
12. Confidentiality and privilege
We treat your matter content as confidential and limit access to personnel who need it to operate or support the Service. However, you are responsible for assessing whether your use of the Service is consistent with your obligations of confidentiality and with the preservation of the attorney-client privilege and work-product protection in your matters. We do not warrant that use of the Service preserves any privilege or protection.
13. Disclaimer of warranties
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT RESULTS WILL BE ACCURATE, CURRENT, OR COMPLETE, OR THAT ANY DEFECT WILL BE CORRECTED.
14. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NOMOS ENGINE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST CLIENTS, SANCTIONS, ADVERSE RULINGS, MALPRACTICE CLAIMS, OR REPUTATIONAL HARM, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
These limitations apply regardless of the theory of liability and are a fundamental basis of the bargain between us. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, and in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted.
15. Indemnification
You will indemnify and hold harmless Nomos Engine and its personnel from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the Service, your provision of legal services, your filings, your recordings, your handling of client information, or your breach of these Terms.
16. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these Terms, for non-payment, or where continued operation would create a legal or security risk. You may terminate at any time as described in Section 9. On termination you may export your matter content; after a reasonable export window we may delete it.
17. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give reasonable advance notice, and continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept a material change, your remedy is to cancel before it takes effect.
18. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of- laws rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in Texas, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction there.
19. Contact
Questions about these Terms: hello@nomosengine.com.