Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Juris Cross operates a closed, invitation-only network through which legal professionals refer and accept cross-border mandates. Membership is by referral or invitation from an existing member; it is not a certification of anyone’s credentials. Juris Cross is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, and does not form an attorney–client relationship with any user. All professional relationships are between members themselves.

2. Eligibility and membership

Membership is by invitation or referral only and is limited to qualified attorneys, law firms, and approved business partners. You must provide accurate registration details and keep them current. We may verify your credentials and may suspend or terminate accounts that do not meet our standards.

3. Your account

You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping access to your email secure, since sign-in uses a one-time code sent to your email. Do not share access or impersonate another person or firm.

4. Mandates and referrals

• Originators define the scope, jurisdiction, and terms of each mandate. There is no price negotiation through the platform and no automatic matching — recipients apply and the originator selects.
• Any fee arrangement, referral fee, or engagement is solely between the participating members. Juris Cross is not a party to it and takes no commission on it.
• You are responsible for conflicts checks, professional-conduct rules, and licensing requirements in your jurisdiction.
• Accepting an application makes the mandate active: identities are revealed to both parties and the secure workspace — encrypted messaging, documents, and progress tracking — opens.

5. Progress tracking and the mandate record

Inside an active mandate, either party may propose a step, setting out what it covers, an optional target date, and which party is responsible for it. A step becomes part of the plan when the other party accepts it. The responsible party marks it delivered, and the other party either approves it or asks for a revision with a reason. Revisions are not limited in number.

Every one of these actions — proposals, acceptances, declines, submissions, approvals, revision requests, document uploads and removals, and changes to the mandate's status — is written to a mandate record at the moment it happens, with the acting party and a UTC timestamp. Both parties see the same record and may export it.

• Entries cannot be edited or deleted by either party or by us.
• The record is retained after the mandate's content is deleted (see clause 7), so either party can evidence what took place.
• The record shows that an action occurred; it is not a statement by Juris Cross about the quality, adequacy, or legal effect of any work, and it does not resolve disputes between members.
• Marking a step delivered or approved is a statement between the members. It does not create, vary, or discharge any obligation owed between them, and it is not payment.

6. Documents and third-party data

Documents you upload usually contain other people's personal data — most often your client's. Each time you upload a document you confirm that you are authorised to share it, and that consent or another lawful basis covers the disclosure to the other party to that mandate. That confirmation is timestamped, recorded, and shown to the other party alongside the document.

• Responsibility for what you share, and for the lawfulness of sharing it, rests with you as the uploading member — not with Juris Cross and not with the receiving member.
• Your professional obligations of privilege, confidentiality, and conflict avoidance remain yours. Share only what the receiving member needs and redact the rest.
• You must not upload material you are not entitled to disclose, or material subject to a restriction you have not satisfied.
• We do not review, moderate, or verify uploaded documents. Where you act as controller of your client's data, we act as your processor for the material you upload, and process it only to operate the mandate workspace.
• If you upload material in breach of this clause, you are responsible for the consequences and for any claim brought against Juris Cross arising from it, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

7. Records, retention and deletion

When posting a mandate, the originator chooses how long its workspace survives after the mandate closes: one month or one year, measured from the closing date. Applicants see this period before they apply, and it cannot be changed once the mandate is live, so neither party's expectation can be altered afterwards.

When that period ends:

• the encrypted conversation and every uploaded document are permanently deleted and cannot be recovered by us or by you;
• the mandate record described in clause 5 is kept, without document contents; and
• both parties are emailed 30 and 7 days beforehand. Retrieving anything you need to keep before deletion is your responsibility, and you may download documents or export your data at any time until then.

Retention periods you are subject to under professional-conduct or file-keeping rules are yours to satisfy. The platform is not a file-retention system, an archive, or a substitute for your own records.

8. Ratings

After a mandate is completed, each party may rate the other out of ten and leave a comment. Ratings are used to help members choose counterparties, and the following applies:

• Only the two parties to a completed mandate may rate each other; cancelled and expired mandates carry no rating.
• Ratings are anonymous to other members, and we do not disclose who wrote one, including in a data export.
• Both ratings on a mandate are released together — once both parties have rated, or after 14 days — so that neither party can respond to the other's score.
• The score shown is a weighted average that starts from a neutral baseline, so a member with few ratings is neither promoted nor damaged by a single one. Its calculation is explained in the platform.
• Ratings are members' own opinions, not statements by Juris Cross. We do not edit them to favour anyone, but we may remove a rating or comment that breaches clause 9.

9. Verification

Verification badges indicate that a member completed a check: identity verification (L1) confirms the member is the real person they claim to be; attorney verification (L2) additionally confirms their bar registration as reviewed by us. Verification is currently closed and no badge is issued or displayed; when it reopens it may be a paid feature, with pricing shown before you start.

A badge is not a guarantee. It reflects documents and checks available at a point in time. It is not a warranty of competence, standing, insurance, or continued good standing, and it does not relieve you of your own duty to satisfy yourself about a counterparty before engaging them.

10. Subscriptions and fees

Access to certain features requires a paid subscription. Fees, billing periods, and tier limits are shown at the point of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period and fees already paid are non-refundable except where required by law.

Juris Cross charges only for platform access. Fees for legal work are agreed and paid between members outside the platform, and we take no commission on them.

11. Acceptable use

You agree not to misuse the platform. In particular, you will not:

• post false, misleading, or unlawful content;
• attempt to access data or accounts that are not yours;
• circumvent verification, masking, or security controls;
• use the platform to solicit business outside its intended referral purpose;
• use ratings to threaten, retaliate against, or coerce another member, or arrange to exchange favourable ratings; or
• enter false or misleading entries into a mandate record, or state that a step was delivered when it was not.

12. Confidentiality and security

Mandate communications are encrypted and intended only for the parties to a mandate. You must keep mandate information confidential and use it only for the engagement. See our Privacy Policy for how we handle personal data.

Our staff cannot read mandate messages in the ordinary course. Access is limited to a narrow set of administrators, is only used where legally required or to investigate a serious breach, requires a stated reason, and is logged with an alert to the platform owner. Mandate records (clause 5) contain no message or document content and may be reviewed by administrators for support and dispute-handling purposes; that access is also logged.

13. Intellectual property

The platform, its branding, and its content are owned by Juris Cross or its licensors. You retain ownership of content you submit but grant us a limited licence to host and display it for the purpose of operating the service.

14. Disclaimers and liability

The platform is provided “as is”. To the extent permitted by law, Juris Cross disclaims warranties and is not liable for the conduct of members, the outcome of any mandate, or indirect or consequential losses. Nothing limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

In particular, and to the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for: the accuracy or completeness of anything members enter into a mandate record or a rating; loss of content deleted at the end of a retention period chosen under clause 7; or reliance on a verification badge.

15. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these terms or to protect the network. You may stop using the platform at any time; certain obligations survive termination.

If your account is closed, mandate records for mandates you were a party to remain available to the other party, since they are that member's evidence of the engagement as much as yours.

16. Changes

We may update these terms. Material changes will be notified through the platform or by email, and continued use after they take effect means you accept the updated terms. Where a change is material we may ask you to accept the new version before continuing to use the platform.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms? Contact us.