Terms of Service.

We're a marketplace for software. Authors publish, and buyers license, three kinds of product, which these Terms call Tools:

• Skills — a SKILL.md prompt bundle.
• Agents — an AGENT.md subagent package that can be configured to use tools (run commands, read/write files, make network requests, invoke external servers).
• Prompt libraries — a curated set of prompts (a PROMPT.md manifest plus prompt files).

Except where a provision is specifically about one product type, “Tool” means any of these three and everything in these Terms applies to all of them; we use the word “skill”only where we mean the skill product specifically. Every transaction here is a software-license sale. Nothing we do is the practice of law, accountancy, financial advising, HR consulting, or any other regulated professional service, and using Counsel Commons™ doesn't make us your lawyer, accountant, advisor, or consultant.

Our job is to run the marketplace: host the Tool files, process payments, run a very light-touch moderation layer that takes a cursory automated and human pass at each submission as a good-faith effort (no guarantees that issues will be detected), and issue refunds when our policy says they apply. We don't write the Tools and we don't check them for accuracy.

Tools are starting points, not finished products. Before you run any Tool, read through every file in the bundle — the SKILL.md, AGENT.md, or PROMPT.md manifest, plus any reference files, prompts, and sample data — to confirm the instructions suit your workflow and don't include anything you wouldn't want performed. Adapt each Tool to your firm's data sources, conventions, and specific use case. Organizations should also assess whether a Tool fits their industry's regulatory requirements before deploying it.

Agents can take actions in your environment.An agent is configured to use the tools its author declares in its AGENT.md frontmatter — which may include running shell commands, reading or writing files, making network requests, or invoking external (MCP) servers. Each agent listing should show those declared tools before purchase, with privileged ones flagged. Counsel Commons™ does not run agents; they run in your own environment, on your own API keys and credentials. You are responsible for reviewing an agent's declared tools and its AGENT.md before running it, for the environment and permissions you grant it, and for everything it does once you run it. Run agents only from authors you trust, and prefer an isolated or least-privilege environment.

Outputs vary run-to-run.Generative AI is inherently non-deterministic — the same Tool applied to the same input can produce different outputs across runs, and outputs can vary across sessions, model versions, and provider load conditions. Output variance is a normal property of AI tools, not a defect of any specific Tool, author, or platform. Authors test on the specific models they list on each Tool's page; if a tested model is later retired or substantively updated by its provider, performance on successor or remaining models is not guaranteed by the author.

Tool outputs need professional review before they shape a firm-affecting decision — by your CFO, COO, legal-ops lead, managing partner, HR director, or whichever professional the Tool is designed to support. Counsel Commons™ is not a law firm or a consultancy and doesn't give legal, financial, HR, or other professional advice; using us doesn't create any professional-client relationship.

This holds even on the Licensed Attorneys channel where the buyer is a licensed attorney using the Tool in client-substantive practice. The transaction is still a software license — Counsel Commons™ is not your lawyer, not your co-counsel, not party to your client engagement. The Tool is a drafting / analytical aid the attorney reviews and adapts under their own professional judgment; the attorney is solely responsible for any use of the outputs in a client matter.

Not every Licensed Attorneys channel buyer is a verified attorney. If you bought a Tool tagged “Intended for attorney use” without completing bar verification, you accepted a separate risk waiver at checkout — see “Licensed Attorneys channel — buyer eligibility” below for what that waiver covers.

Every Tool on Counsel Commons™ — skill, agent, or prompt library — is sold under the same license, the Counsel Commons™ Standard Tool License. We standardize so buyers know what they're getting without reading separate terms per Tool, and authors don't have to draft their own. There's no off-the-shelf open-source license that fits a paid marketplace with leak-tracing watermarks (the popular ones — MIT, Apache, GPL — all permit redistribution, which we don't), so this is a marketplace EULA in the same tradition as the App Store, Etsy, Substack, and Gumroad terms.

What you get as a buyer:

• Non-exclusive and non-transferable. Other buyers can also license the same Tool (that's the marketplace model); your license is tied to your account and can't be passed to someone else.
• Perpetual within your library. Good for as long as the Tool remains in your library.
• Permits installing the Tool, running it, using its outputs in your firm's workflow, and adapting it for your firm's internal use.
• Prohibits redistribution, resale, or republication of the Tool — including substantially similar derivatives — without the author's written permission.

What the author keeps:

• Ownership of the Tool. Authors retain all intellectual-property rights in their Tool. We don't take ownership.
• The right to sell elsewhere. The license authors grant Counsel Commons™ to host and distribute their Tool is non-exclusive. Authors can sell the same Tool on other marketplaces, on their own websites, or directly to clients.

Every bundle you download has a per-purchase identifier tied to your account — that's how one can identify unauthorized redistribution if a copy surfaces outside the license (see our Privacy Policy). The same license text is also embedded in a LICENSE.txt file inside every downloaded bundle, so the terms travel with the file even if it ends up offline.

One practical note on prompt libraries: a prompt is plain text you can copy out of the bundle, so the per-purchase identifier and leak-tracing are weaker for prompt libraries than for multi-file skills and agents. The license terms above still apply in full regardless — the weaker technical watermark doesn't expand what you're permitted to do.

All sales are final by default. Tools are digital goods you can use the moment you buy them, so we don't offer refunds for change of mind. Every Tool page has a free preview — example input and output — so you can decide before you buy. The platform is built with example inputs and outputs and publicly-posted buyer feedback to allow buyers to help prospective buyers evaluate Tools before buying.

If an author offers you a refund

Authors can choose to refund you — partially or in full — to resolve a feedback thread. Two things happen together when you take that refund:

• You keep access to the version of the Tool that was live when the refund landed, for as long as you want.
• You stop getting future versions of that Tool at no charge. Your library entry freezes at that version; auto-update, version pinning, and the version picker disable for that purchase. If a future version matters to your work, you can repurchase at the then-current price.

This rule applies to every author-issued refund regardless of amount or reason. The refund is meant to make you whole on the version you have, not to be an ongoing credit on future work.

Have a problem with a Tool you purchased? Submit feedback through the channel on the Tool detail page or in your library. The author has a chance to respond. If you're not satisfied, you can escalate the thread to Counsel Commons™ moderators, who'll review and decide on next steps.

Reviews are how buyers help each other. We'll generally leave them alone, but we may remove a review that:

• Personally attacks someone, or contains harassment, slurs, or threats.
• Grades the Tool against a use case the author never claimed. The Tool's description and tagging define the scope it's designed for; reviews outside that scope don't help other buyers.
• Contains firm-confidential, client-confidential, or privileged information, real party identifiers, or other content that shouldn't be public.
• Was submitted to manipulate ratings (sock-puppets, quid-pro-quo with the author, coordinated campaigns).
• Violates applicable law or these Terms.

We don't edit reviews — we either leave them as written or take them down. Authors can publicly respond to a review they disagree with, which is the preferred path. If a review you wrote was removed and you think we got it wrong, send us a message.

Your library is where you find the Tools you've purchased — convenient, but not a vault. Download every Tool when you buy it and save it somewhere your firm controls (a Git repo, a shared drive, your knowledge-management system). We don't guarantee how long bundles stay available for re-download.

Reasons a bundle might not be downloadable later include: Tool removal for cause (you've already been refunded in that case — see §04), voluntary author withdrawal, storage outages, format changes, or platform shutdown. Your license is for the version you downloaded — the file you saved is the durable artifact, not our re-download link.

When you publish a Tool, the seller terms you accept at upload (we retain a timestamped record of each submission) become part of these Terms. By publishing, you confirm that:

• The Tool is software you wrote or have the rights to license.
• You're being paid for licensing software — not a legal fee, a referral fee, or a cut of anyone's professional fees.
• Selling the Tool isn't the practice of law and doesn't make you anyone's lawyer.
• The Tool is built to produce drafting aids for the relevant professional's review, not personalized legal advice.

The upload form summarizes the promises below in plain language and records the exact wording you were shown. This is the full version.

• Rights and ownership.You are the original author or hold full rights to license the Tool. No employer, firm, contracting party, university, client, or other third party has rights to its content under an employment agreement, NDA, non-compete, work-for-hire, contracting, or grant arrangement. If you drafted any part of it on an employer's time or with an employer's resources (equipment, software licenses, research databases, funding), you have written permission to license it here. Authoring and selling it breaches no duty to a current or recent employer — including moonlighting and conflict-of-interest rules — and presents no conflict with your current professional engagements.
• Confidentiality.The Tool's description, prompts, reference files, examples, preview input and output, and screenshots contain no client-confidential, firm-confidential, or privileged information and no real client, party, partner, or matter identifiers. Screenshots are public exhibits; anything sensitive is redacted or replaced with clearly fictional data.
• Originality and sources. Nothing in the Tool is copied verbatim from published works, treatises, or consultancy reports; it embeds no third-party logos, firm-named templates, or proprietary survey data; brand names are used only descriptively; any embedded code or text is under a license permitting commercial redistribution; and no content, data, figures, or citations were derived from a paywalled or subscription-only source. If AI helped you author the Tool, you have checked its output against each of these.
• No defamatory content.The Tool does not name, criticize, disparage, or make adverse factual claims about any specific product, firm, attorney, judge, or individual. References to third-party products are descriptive only (for example, “compatible with Elite 3E exports”).
• Accurate screenshots.You own or are licensed to display every screenshot; none depict third-party software, copyrighted material, or trademarks you aren't authorized to show; and none are fabricated, edited, or AI-generated to show results the Tool can't produce. Cropping, redaction, and contrast adjustments are fine.
• Expertise and testing. You have personal, hands-on experience with the kind of work the Tool automates, are qualified to judge whether its outputs are useful and reasonable, and have used it yourself on that work and found that it materially improves on your manual process. You have tested it on the models you list.
• Not professional advice.The Tool produces analyses and drafting aids for review by a qualified professional. To the best of your knowledge it contains nothing that could be construed as the unauthorized practice of law, accountancy, or financial advising, or that violates any other professional, fiduciary, regulatory, or ethical duty you are responsible for. Selling it creates no professional relationship between you and any buyer or any buyer's stakeholders.
• Built for review.The Tool tells its user when to stop and involve a qualified professional rather than proceeding past situations it isn't designed to handle, and wherever it calculates, ranks, or reaches a conclusion it shows the formula, method, or reasoning so the output can be checked.
• Agents.If the Tool is an agent, its AGENT.md frontmatter accurately and completely declares every tool, permission, and external service it invokes — including shell or command execution, file read and write, network or web access, and MCP servers — and it performs no undisclosed system actions, network calls, or data transfers. The declared list is shown to buyers as a permissions disclosure, and you remain responsible for the agent's behavior.
• Prompt libraries. If the Tool is a prompt library, it is a documented, tested set of prompts with a PROMPT.md manifest, held to the same standards as a skill — not a single prompt repackaged. Because prompts are plain text a buyer can copy, per-purchase watermarking and leak tracing are weaker for prompt libraries; you rely primarily on the license terms, not technical enforcement.
• Your bio. Each time you save a bio, you confirm it names no specific employer, firm, institution, client, or matter, and that publishing it breaches no employment agreement, NDA, non-compete, contracting agreement, or grant condition.
• Tier attestations.Attorney-Authored sellers hold an active US bar license in the declared jurisdiction(s) and authorize us to verify it. Paralegal-Authored sellers are US-based legal professionals without an active US bar license who built the Tool in the course of that work. Non-US Attorney-Authored sellers hold an active license to practice law in their declared country, are not licensed in the US, and publish a Tool reflecting that country's law.

Your professional rules are your responsibility

ABA Model Rule 5.4 and its state analogues prohibit lawyers from sharing legal fees with non-lawyers. Our position: the Stripe destination-charge split is a software-distribution commission, not a fee-share — there are no legal fees in the transaction stream because buyers are licensing software that each seller attests is not the practice of law. This marketplace is intended to serve business professionals, not to deliver legal services. The same logic may or may not apply to your specific professional credential. That's your call to make, not ours. A few common cases:

• CPAs / accounting professionals— AICPA Code Rule 1.510 prohibits accepting commissions for recommending products to attest clients (audit, review, examination engagements). If you are publishing Tools and any current or prospective buyer firm is also an attest client of yours or your firm, you are responsible for assessing whether accepting commission income from that buyer's purchase is consistent with your independence obligations. Counsel Commons™ does not screen for these relationships.
• Registered patent agents and trademark agents (USPTO practitioners under 37 CFR § 11) — USPTO Rule 11.504 mirrors ABA 5.4 with respect to fee-sharing with non-practitioners. The same software-vs-services distinction the platform takes for lawyers applies, but you are responsible for assessing fit with your own USPTO obligations.
• Other professionally licensed sellers — if you hold a license, registration, or credential (foreign legal consultant, mediator under state-specific ethics rules, financial adviser under SEC/state rules, etc.) that imposes commission, fee-share, conflict, or independence restrictions, those obligations are yours to interpret and comply with. Counsel Commons™ takes no position on whether your professional rules permit your participation.

Standard channel — revenue split

We keep 30% of each sale as a software-distribution commission. Stripe's processing fees come out of your 70%, consistent with how App Store, Etsy, Gumroad, and similar marketplaces work. Stripe pays you on the schedule you set in your Stripe dashboard — or, if you're selling from a country where Stripe doesn't support seller payouts, PayPal instead. In that case both Stripe's and PayPal's processing fees apply to your payout, since Stripe still processes the buyer's payment and PayPal is the separate rail we use to pay you out. See Payout via PayPal below for details.

Licensed Attorneys channel — listing fee

Tools published on the Licensed Attorneys channel use a different revenue model: a non-refundable listing fee paid at submission ($35 for the Attorney-Authored tier, $25 for the Paralegal-Authored tier, or a country-scaled amount for the Non-US Attorney-Authored tier — see below), and no platform commission on sales. Sellers set any price, keep 100% of the sale price net of Stripe's processing fees, and the platform's only revenue from this channel is the listing fee.

The listing fee covers bar license verification (for Attorney-Authored listings only), limited automated quality scanning, and hosting infrastructure. It does not constitute advertising, placement, or referral services. Counsel Commons™ is a work productivity enhancement software licensing marketplace and does not facilitate attorney-client relationships or legal service referrals.

Non-US Attorney-Authored tier — listing fee by country.This tier is for attorneys licensed to practice law outside the United States (for example, a skill grounded in another country's law). A flat USD fee doesn't reflect purchasing power evenly around the world, so the listing fee scales with the seller's declared country's World Bank income-group classification: $25 (High income), $15 (Upper-middle income), $8 (Lower-middle income), or $5 (Low income). The exact amount is shown before payment. Counsel Commons™ has no capability to verify a license to practice law outside the United States and does not attempt to for this tier — like the Paralegal-Authored tier, it is a good-faith attestation only.

Payout via PayPal, for countries where Stripe doesn't support seller payouts. Stripe cannot pay sellers out in every country — this is about where Stripe can send money to a seller, not about which buyers Stripe can charge; buyers everywhere can still pay by card as usual. PayPal covers a substantial number of countries beyond Stripe's own list. For sellers in a country where Stripe doesn't reach but PayPal does — whether on the Non-US Attorney-Authored tier or the Other Professionals channel — payouts route through PayPal instead of Stripe. This changes how you get paid; it does not change our 30% commission on the Other Professionals channel or the zero-commission structure on the Licensed Attorneys channel. As with Stripe, you bear the payment processing fees on your own payout. These are each processor's own published rates, not ours, and Counsel Commons™ does not mark them up or profit from them; they can change at any time and this page may not reflect the current numbers, so consult PayPal's and Stripe's own fee pages for what you'll actually be charged.

Scope of this arrangement.For sellers on this rail, the buyer's payment is processed as a direct charge and your proceeds are forwarded to you via PayPal on a periodic basis rather than automatically at the moment of sale. This is the only situation in which Counsel Commons holds buyer funds before paying a seller — every other sale on the platform, on either channel, continues to settle atomically through Stripe Connect at the moment of purchase, with no such step.

Licensed Attorneys channel — buyer eligibility

Tools published on the Licensed Attorneys channel (any of the three author tiers) appear in the main catalog for anyone to see, tagged “Intended for attorney use.” A verified attorney (US bar license confirmed through our verification flow) can buy one directly. Any other buyer — including a paralegal, including a seller on the channel themselves — can still buy it, but only after affirmatively accepting the risk waiver described below. This replaced a prior policy that restricted purchase to verified attorneys only; see the waiver text for what changed and why.

The non-attorney risk waiver. Before checkout, a non-verified buyer must check a box confirming each of the following:

• They are not relying on Counsel Commons™, the Tool's author, or the Tool for legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by the purchase.
• The Tool may be inaccurate, incomplete, or inapplicable to their jurisdiction or situation, and a non-attorney has no independent way to catch those errors before they cause harm — a missed deadline, an invalid filing, a waived right, bad legal advice acted on.
• If they are not a licensed attorney, they will not use the Tool's output to provide legal services or advice to anyone else — doing so may constitute the unauthorized practice of law, which is a legal risk they personally bear, not Counsel Commons™ or the Tool's author.
• They are purchasing and using the Tool entirely at their own risk, subject to the same no-refund policy and liability cap that governs every purchase on Counsel Commons™.

The waiver is recorded against the purchase (timestamp, the Terms version in effect, and the requesting IP address and user agent) as a legal record, the same way we record seller affirmations at upload. We don't verify a buyer's claim either way — the waiver is a disclosure and an allocation of risk, not a credential check.

Every Paralegal-Authored listing separately carries a permanently-visible “Paralegal-Authored” tag and the buyer-facing disclosure: “This Tool was created by a paralegal and is licensed for use under attorney supervision. As the purchasing attorney, you are responsible for independently reviewing all outputs before use in any client matter.” That disclosure is non-removable and appears on every listing card and detail page; the seller cannot opt out. It describes the supervisory chain that applies when the buyer is a verified attorney — if you bought under the non-attorney waiver instead, that supervisory chain does not apply to your purchase, and the risk sits with you as described above.

Every Non-US Attorney-Authored listing separately carries a permanently-visible “Non-US Attorney-Authored” tag naming the seller's declared country, and a buyer-facing disclosure that the underlying license is unverified and that the Tool reflects that country's law or practice, not US law. That disclosure is non-removable and appears on every listing card and detail page; the seller cannot opt out.

Bar verification — Attorney-Authored tier

Counsel Commons™ verifies an Attorney-Authored seller's bar number against the public bar lookup for the declared jurisdiction once, on that seller's first Attorney-Authored submission. The verification is a point-in-time KYC snapshot — bar number, jurisdiction, date, result, and provider used — kept on the seller's record and relied on for their later Attorney-Authored listings, which are not re-verified. Bar numbers are stored as internal records only and are not displayed to buyers; the buyer-facing seller-of-record name remains the verified Stripe Connect entity name. If a seller's license is later found to be suspended or revoked, the listing is flagged for moderator review (no auto-delist — human review required).

Keeping your attorney-channel listing current

Every 90 days we send a courtesy check-in to attorney-channel sellers (all three tiers). Confirming the underlying law / regulation / practice is still current — or pushing any update to the Tool — resets the clock for another 90 days. Listings that go silent through repeated check-ins are automatically delistedto keep buyers from relying on stale legal content. Delisted sellers may relist by paying the channel's standard listing fee again ($35 Attorney-Authored, $25 Paralegal-Authored, or the current country-scaled rate for Non-US Attorney-Authored) and going through a fresh prompt-injection scan. Buyers retain perpetual access to any version they've already downloaded; the delisting only removes the listing from the catalog for new buyers.

Author indemnification

If a third-party claim comes at us because of something in your Tool, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Legal InnovAI LLC and Counsel Commons™ — including our officers, employees, agents, and affiliates — from any claim, demand, action, loss, damage, liability, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

• An IP, publicity, or privacy infringement claim against your Tool or its outputs. (Copyright takedowns specifically follow the procedure at /dmca.)
• An unauthorized-practice-of-law claim or any analogous regulated-profession claim about your Tool's substance, regardless of how a buyer uses it.
• Anything you misrepresented in your seller affirmations, author bio, Tool description, or tested-providers claim.
• Your breach of these Terms or the affirmations you accepted at upload.
• Firm- or client-confidential or otherwise non-public information you included in the bundle, preview I/O, or examples — even if our cursory moderation pass missed it.

This obligation continues after your Tool is removed, your account closes, or these Terms end. We can decide to take over the defense and settlement of a covered claim; if we do, please cooperate in good faith.

Our review of submissions — automated and human — is a cursory, good-faith check with no guarantee that any issue will be caught before or after publication. We distribute and review your Tool; we are not a liability backstop for its substance.

Refunds and clawbacks

Sales are final (§04): a buyer can ask for a refund but isn't entitled to one. The exception is a removal for cause — UPL or other regulated-profession concerns, an IP claim, accuracy, security, or a Terms violation. When we remove a Tool for cause, every prior buyer is refunded automatically and your share of each sale is taken back from you: reversed from your Stripe balance, or, for PayPal-paid sellers, deducted from what we owe you or invoiced to you. This can take your balance below zero; we may pursue recovery and suspend accounts with persistent negative balances. Stripe does not return its original processing fee on refunds. A voluntary withdrawal is not a removal for cause and triggers no refunds. Any refund you choose to offer a buyer yourself comes entirely out of your share.

Responding to buyers

Buyer feedback reaches you by email and on your dashboard. You have 7 days to respond — with an update, a workaround, a refund at your discretion, or an explanation. We track response times and outcomes for quality control, and persistent non-response can lead to your Tool being removed.

Insurance

Counsel Commons™ carries no errors-and-omissions, professional-liability, or general-liability insurance on your behalf. If you want coverage for claims arising from buyers' use of your Tool, you are responsible for obtaining it.

AI output variance

Generative AI is non-deterministic: the same Tool on the same input can produce different outputs across runs, sessions, settings, and provider-side model updates or retirements. That variance is a property of the technology, not a defect in your Tool. Buyers are told this, and you are not responsible for performance differences caused by it or by buyers running your Tool on models you did not test.

By listing a Tool on Counsel Commons™, you acknowledge and agree that authorized Counsel Commons™ personnel, including moderators and administrators, may access and review your Tool content without purchase for the following purposes:

• Evaluating compliance with Counsel Commons' content standards and Terms of Service.
• Investigating buyer complaints or disputes related to your Tool.
• Verifying that the Tool delivers what is represented in its listing.
• Ensuring platform quality and integrity.

Such access is limited to legitimate platform-administration purposes, and every access by authorized personnel is logged for accountability. The audit trail captures the moderator's identity, time, IP, and the specific Tool or bundle accessed. Authors may request a copy of the access log for their own content at any time via the contact form.

Counsel Commons™ personnel are prohibited from accessing Tool content for personal use, competitive intelligence, or any purpose outside of their administrative role. Misuse is grounds for immediate revocation of moderator access and may be the basis of a claim by the affected author against the individual involved.

Access for the purposes above does notconstitute a waiver of your intellectual-property rights, and Counsel Commons™ does not acquire any ownership interest in your Tool through such review. Your Tool remains your work; we're looking at it the way a marketplace looks at a listing, not the way a buyer looks at a product.

Counsel Commons' liability to any buyer is limited solely to a refund of the platform commission retained from that transaction, and only where the buyer was unable to access or receive the purchased Tool due to a failure of the Counsel Commons platform itself. Counsel Commons bears no liability for the content, quality, accuracy, or fitness of any Tool sold by an author, and any such claims are solely between the buyer and the author. No indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

The reason for the cap: we run the marketplace, but the author wrote the Tool and stands behind its substance. If a Tool caused you a problem, the §05 feedback flow is the first stop, and any claim about what the Tool actually does belongs with the author.

Buyer indemnification

If a third-party claim comes at us because of how you used a Tool or what you did with its outputs, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Legal InnovAI LLC and Counsel Commons™ — including our officers, employees, agents, and affiliates — from any claim, demand, action, loss, damage, liability, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your use of a Tool — or any output you generated with it — in your firm's work or any matter you handle.
• Redistributing, reselling, republishing, or sharing a Tool outside the license in §03, including circumventing the watermark or license-identifier.
• Your violation of any applicable law (consumer protection, attorney advertising, data protection, etc.) in how you used the Tool or its outputs.
• Any other breach of these Terms by you.

When you run a Tool, it is through whichever LLM you choose to run it through. We do not provide any platforms through which you can run a Tool. Therefore, your inputs go to whichever LLM provider you chose to run it on. How that provider handles your inputs — retention, training, routing — depends on your plan and configuration with them, not on us. Free and consumer plans often allow training on inputs by default; enterprise, team, and API plans typically don't. Check your provider's data-use policy and your plan settings before sending anything firm-confidential or privileged.

What we collect on our side is described in our Privacy Policy — account info via Clerk, purchase records via Stripe, download logs (the per-purchase identifiers tied to your account), cookie consent, and audit metadata for moderation actions.

We'll update these Terms from time to time. The version in force when you made a purchase governs that purchase — we won't apply material changes retroactively to settled transactions. If a change materially affects future use, you'll see a re-acceptance prompt the next time you try to buy or claim a tool.

These Terms are governed by Colorado law (without its conflict-of-laws rules). Counsel Commons™ is operated by Legal InnovAI LLC, a Colorado limited liability company. The marketplace primarily serves US-based legal industry professionals, but the Licensed Attorneys channel accepts sellers licensed to practice outside the United States (the Non-US Attorney-Authored tier), and browsing and purchasing have never been restricted by location.

Using Counsel Commons™ from outside the United States (added September 12, 2026)

Counsel Commons™ is a US company operating under US law. We have not reviewed whether selling or buying on this marketplace complies with the laws, regulations, or professional-conduct rules of any country other than the United States. If you access, sell on, or buy from Counsel Commons™ from outside the US, confirming that your participation is permitted under your own jurisdiction's law is your responsibility, not ours— this matters most for sellers, since professional-conduct rules governing attorneys (advertising, fee-sharing, referral restrictions, and similar) vary by country and we make no representation that participating here is consistent with the rules of the jurisdiction where you're licensed. We disclaim liability for any consequence of your participation under your own jurisdiction's law. This is in addition to, not instead of, the professional-rules warranty every seller already makes in §08.

For what this means for how we handle your personal data if you're located outside the US, see our Privacy Policy, §10.

Dispute resolution

If you have a dispute with us, please start by reaching out directly. Most issues can be resolved informally. If we can't resolve the issue that way within 30 days, either party may request non-binding mediation before a mutually agreed mediator in Denver, Colorado (or by video if you're not local). If mediation doesn't resolve it, either party may then pursue its claims in the state or federal courts located in Denver, Colorado, and both parties consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

For general questions, send us a message.