I am required by the Professional Rules of Conduct to advise you in writing at the outset of our relationship and document what you will receive in exchange for your automatic monthly payments of $250.00.

Availability for Meetings & Information Provided (referred to herein as “Content”)

You (meaning the person retaining me) will have me available to consult with you on business issues that you are facing or are concerned about and, separate from general business issues, legal issues that I can ethically and appropriately address. The legal issues that I can ethically address and, more importantly legal issues that I cannot ethically address, are described below.

• The $250.00 monthly fee is deemed earned by me and by my firm by being available to you, whether you schedule meetings or not, by my provision of video-recorded content to you each month. Whether you schedule meetings with me or not, you specifically agree that my being available to you and the video-recorded content provided to you satisfies my obligations to you under this agreement.
• My availability to you for consultations for both business issues and legal issues that I feel that I can ethically address is not unlimited. My availability to you will be in the form of providing you with the ability to schedule up to two (2) meetings per month with me via a website. The meetings that you schedule will be held via telephone or zoom at my discretion. Each meeting can be up to one hour in length. If you do not use your two meetings per month or the maximum allocated time of one hour for each meeting, the unused meetings and/or the unused time does not build up or “roll over” to the next meeting or the next month. If you need or want additional meetings with me, there will be additional charges for each additional meeting within that month. There will be no refunds for monthly payments if you choose not to schedule any meetings or if the meetings do not require the full amount of time allocated to each or any of our meetings.
• You are welcome to have your partner(s), employees and/or your accountant(s) attend our meetings but not people from other companies at no additional cost to you.

Anticipated Subjects for Our Meetings

I anticipate, but am not limiting our meetings, to addressing the following issues:

• Amazon Suspensions: Non-Intellectual Property Issues
• Intellectual Property Complaints or “Rights Owner” Complaints against your Amazon account
• Amazon’s withholding or refusal to release your funds
• Amazon’s failure to account for your inventory
• Restricted / Gated Products
• Sale of Products on Walmart
• Walmart Seller Deactivations and Suspensions
• Sourcing Issues (sourcing from within the US, China, India and other countries)
• Authorized Seller Agreements
• Development and Protection of Intellectual Property
• Issues with Your Employees
• Partnership Issues
• Successful and Strategic Appeal Plans
• Sale or Purchase of Businesses
• Litigation & Litigation Risks
• Intellectual Property & Brand Development & Protection
• All Business Issues including Business Issues with Possible Criminal Exposure
• Contracts, Business & Tax Strategies (All Tax advice is with our CPA)
• Issues pertaining to Insurance Coverage
• Brand Development & Brand Protection
• Divorce Planning
• Estate Planning
• eCommerce Issues
• Corporate Structure, Shareholder Agreements (for corporations) and Operating Agreements (for LLCs) as well as the election of Tax Status (Sub Chapter S v. C Corp.)
• Dispute Resolutions
• Prop 65 Compliance (only with the assistance of counsel admitted in California
• Trademarks (pre-application research, applications with the USPTO, WIPO filings and trademark monitoring and protection)
• Business startup planning and issues.

No “Probability of Success” Provided. You acknowledge that we cannot provide you with any “probability of success” in any matters that we address during our meetings or issues addressed in the content we provide to you. Similarly, there is No Guarantee of any Outcome. We shall provide you with conscientious, competent, and diligent business consultations and, where we can ethically provide legal advice, legal services and at all times will endeavor to achieve the purpose for which we have been retained. However, because of the uncertainties of the law, Amazon’s responses and reactions, and third parties, we cannot and do not warrant, predict, or guarantee results or that the outcome of any issues will ultimately be satisfying to you.

Legal Issues where we can ethically provide counsel and/or advice. Legal Issues where we can ethically provide counsel and/or advice. The attorneys that work directly for the firm, are admitted to practice law in New York, Florida, Massachusetts and the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois. We also have attorneys that work as outside counsel to the firm in California, Texas, Washington State, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, the firm can only provide legal advice and appear in courts in those areas and/or address issues under the laws of those areas. If we need to address issues outside these jurisdictions, we must work with attorneys who are admitted to practice law in those jurisdictions or reject addressing the issues.

Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality.    The law firm shall maintain confidential information and protect the client's data and attorney-client communications.  The law firm may publish that it represents the client and the general subject matter of the representation of the client. The client consents to the firm sending his / her cell phone(s) text messages and being added as a subscriber to the firm's email newsletter.  The receipt of text messages from the firm may result in charges to the client on your cell phone bill.

Dispute Resolution.     If there are any disputes between you and my law firm, all issues shall be addressed via New York’s attorney-client dispute resolution mechanism which includes arbitration. The arbitration is to be conducted in the New York State Court for Nassau County.

If you fully understand everything in this agreement and all of the provisions are acceptable to you, specifically including either having your credit card billed $250.00 each month or by paying $2,500.00 for one year of your ability to schedule bi-monthly consultations and access to specific content for entering into this retainer agreement, please indicate your agreement by entering your email address at the top of this page.  

After entering your email, you will be taken to a page to enter your credit card information and either your first $250.00 and, thereafter, $250.00 monthly payments to be charged to your credit card until you cancel this agreement or your annual fee of $2,500.00 will be charged to your credit card.   You agree that each monthly payment shall be deemed fully earned by me and/or my law firm upon your initial ability to access the content at CJOnRetainer.com each month.

Finally, please note that if you choose to pay $2,500.00 for an entire year's ability to schedule up to two (2) consultations per month and to receive the ability to review specific content included with this service, you specifically agree that the entire $2,500.00 shall be deemed fully earned by me and/or my law firm upon your initial ability to access the content at CJOnRetainer.com.

I look forward to working with you, being available to you and providing you with content to help you and your business succeed.

Thank you for your courtesy and attention to this matter and thank you for trusting me to provide business consultations and separate legal advice when I am ethically able to do so.