(c) About Members of the General Public

For members of the general public, our primary purpose for collecting personal information is usually to gather and review evidence that is relevant to a legal issue affecting our own clients.  Thus, the personal information is usually incidental to our providing advice to our client.  Often this collection, use and disclosure is done without the individual's consent because we are reviewing an apparent breach of law or an agreement and obtaining consent would compromise the investigation.

(4) Related and Secondary Purposes of Collecting Personal Information

Like most businesses, we also collect, use and disclose information for purposes related to or secondary to our primary purposes.  The most common examples of our related and secondary purposes are as follows:

• To invoice clients for services, or to collect unpaid accounts.

• Our firm reviews client and other files for the purpose of ensuring that we provide services of the highest quality, including assessing the performance of our lawyers and staff.

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