Communications
 
 
 
  Attorney-Client Communications:  
  We recognize our professional duty to keep the client adequately informed concerning the legal matter that we have been retained to address. We also recognize the practical impossibility to respond to each inquiry by telephone or correspondence whether by client or family representative. All inquiries will be received and considered by the attorney, who will decide what response is appropriate. As attorney and client, we must both endeavor to accommodate the interests and needs of the other, and must exercise patience. Because of the specialized nature of this law practice, many K & W clients are imprisoned in state and federal penal institutions. This presents obvious interference with the communications with those clients, and necessitates the need, in most cases, to designate 1 (one) contact person who is not incarcerated with whom K & W will maintain communications. Since attorney-client communications are privileged and confidential, to accommodate those interests we will prepare a special power of attorney for the client which empowers the personal representative to receive and forward confidential matters from the client and the attorney. As a client you have the right to schedule an office appointment or a scheduled telephone conference with an attorney, subject to reasonable limitations.  
     
  E-Mail communications:  
  Due to security related issues regarding the confidentiality of internet-based written communications, and also due to difficulties for attorneys to manage attorney-client communications, K& W formally disapproves of email communications regarding attorney-client matters and discourages clients and their family representatives from communicating to K & W through email. Although circumstances may deem it necessary for K & W to contact a family representative by email, such instance does not constitute a waiver of the policy discouraging email communications from clients or family representatives. K & W will not be deemed to be in possession of information communicated to K & W through email messages.