Terms & Conditions

By using coeandcompany.info you confirm that you have read and accepted these terms. Coe & Company may revise them; the date at the head of this page shows when they were last changed, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised version.

These terms work alongside the Privacy Policy.

Coe & Company provides forensic construction consulting, defect investigation, claims analysis, cost and damage assessment, and expert witness services.

Nothing on this website is an offer to act, and nothing you send creates an engagement. The firm is retained only when both parties sign a written engagement agreement and any retainer it specifies has been received. Submitting an inquiry, receiving a reply, or discussing a matter by telephone does not retain the firm.

Coe & Company is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Nothing on this site should be relied on as a substitute for advice from your own counsel.

The firm applies recognised technical standards and professional care, and its opinions follow the physical evidence. No opinion, report or testimony carries any guarantee as to the outcome of a case, a motion, a mediation, an arbitration or a settlement, and none should be understood as promising one.

This is the clause most worth reading before you use the contact form.

Until Coe & Company has completed a conflict check and both parties have signed an engagement agreement, information you send through this website:

• is not covered by any duty of confidentiality owed to you;
• does not create a consulting engagement, an attorney–client relationship, or any expert relationship;
• does not prevent the firm from acting for another party in the same matter, if the conflict check permits it;
• may itself be discoverable in the dispute it concerns.

Send only what is needed to identify the matter and run a conflict check. Privileged communications, attorney work product, protected health information and personal identifiers should wait until the firm is retained and a secure route has been agreed.

The project history, credentials and figures on this site are drawn from Lyle E. Coe’s curriculum vitae and the firm’s own records. Code references, standards and reference material are provided for general orientation and are not a substitute for the governing edition of a code as adopted by the authority having jurisdiction over a particular project.

Codes, standards and professional requirements change. The site is maintained in good faith but is provided “as is”, without warranty that every detail is current or complete at the moment you read it.

The Resources section links to code bodies, standards organisations, courts and professional associations. Those sites are not operated by Coe & Company. The firm does not control their content and is not responsible for it, and a link is not an endorsement. Your use of any linked site is governed by that site’s own terms.

Where a client is given access to a private area of this site, that access is personal to the people named, and the credentials must not be shared. You are responsible for keeping them confidential and for activity under them. Tell the firm immediately if you believe access has been compromised.

Using this website for an unlawful purpose, attempting to gain unauthorised access, or interfering with its operation or security, is prohibited.

The text, photographs, graphics, logos and reports on this website are the property of Coe & Company or its licensors and are protected by copyright and trademark law. You may read, print and share pages for your own professional use. Republishing them, or making derivative works, requires written permission.

Photographs of investigations are evidence from real matters and may not be reused without permission.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Coe & Company is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, this website — including any decision taken in reliance on it before an engagement is in place.

You agree to indemnify Coe & Company against claims arising from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the site. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Where the firm has been retained, the signed engagement agreement and fee schedule govern the work. If anything on this page conflicts with that agreement, the agreement prevails.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts serving San Joaquin County, California.

If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and the unenforceable provision is to be applied as closely to its intent as the law permits.

Coe & Company
904 Black Diamond Way, Suite A, Lodi, CA 95240
Email: lcoe@coeandcompany.info
Phone: +1 (209) 403-8186