Code of Conduct for Events and Forums of Law School Admission Council, Inc. (“LSAC Forum Code of Conduct”)

Welcome to this Law School Admission Council, Inc. Forum (“LSAC Forum”)! As part of this LSAC Forum, you may engage with law school representatives and other experts at the LSAC Forum (collectively, the “law school representatives”) of the LSAC Forum and participate in discussions of subjects, topics, and issues raised during the LSAC Forum. By attending the LSAC Forum, you agree that you have read and will follow the rules, terms, and conditions set forth in this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct.

This LSAC Forum Code of Conduct specifically governs the behavior and conduct required for your participation in the LSAC Forum. The LSAC Forum Code of Conduct applies to all individuals that register for and enter the LSAC Forum (each individual may be referred to as “participants,” “you,” or “users”) and constitutes a binding, legal agreement between you, the Law School Admission Council, Inc., and its agents, successors, heirs, and assigns (“LSAC”).

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the LSAC Forum Code of Conduct. To preserve a climate that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to cancel your registration to the LSAC Forum, prohibit you from attending the LSAC Forum, remove you from the LSAC Forum, and/or deny admission or cancel your registration to attend any future LSAC Forum, as a result of a violation of any provision in the LSAC Forum Code of Conduct.  At its discretion, LSAC may notify its member schools that your registration to the LSAC Forum was cancelled, that you were prohibited from attending the LSAC forum, that you were removed from the LSAC Forum, and/or that you will be denied admission or your registration will be cancelled if you attempt to attend any future LSAC Forum.

All participants must adhere to and comply with the following LSAC Forum Code of Conduct:

  1. General Rules
    1. Always treat others with kindness and respect, even if you do not agree with them.
    2. Stay on topic, do not intentionally derail conversations, do not troll, and do not spam.
    3. Use appropriate language (e.g., do not use any profane, explicit, or offensive language).
    4. Do not intentionally insult or offend others.
    5. As determined by LSAC at its sole discretion, do not engage in any hate speech, intimidation, harassment, sexual, racial, ethnic slurs, or any other offensive conduct or post any discriminatory content.
    6. Do not engage in any behavior outside of the LSAC Forum that threatens, harasses, targets, or otherwise seriously offends any participant of or law school representative at the LSAC Forum, including, but not limited to, cyberbullying, as determined by the attendee of the LSAC Forum at their sole discretion.
  2. Rules Regulating Your Behavior on Digital Chatrooms, Message Board, and/or Other Digital Forms of Communication (collectively, the “LSAC Digital Platforms”)
    1. During the LSAC Forum, LSAC may make the LSAC Digital Platforms available to participants of the LSAC Forum for the purpose of participating in the LSAC Forum and providing a digital location for the discussion of issues that are important to participants and law school representatives of the LSAC Forum.
    2. LSAC is making the LSAC Digital Platforms available to participants and law school representatives of the LSAC Forum for educational and informational purposes only. LSAC is not undertaking to render advice. LSAC Forum participants must rely solely on their own judgment with respect to all issues discussed. LSAC does not approve or endorse any specific practices, conduct, or behavior that may be discussed on the LSAC Digital Platforms. LSAC makes no representations or warranties regarding the experience, qualifications, or information provided by law school representatives on the LSAC Digital Platforms or otherwise provided using the LSAC Digital Platforms.
    3. Information posted on the LSAC Digital Platforms will not be treated as confidential, and, therefore, you should not disclose any personally identifiable information or any confidential, proprietary, sensitive, or other protected information. Since any content posted on the LSAC Digital Platforms may be downloaded, reproduced, and/or disseminated without the knowledge of the user(s), users must use extreme care when posting or sending such content.
    4. Each user acknowledges and agrees that the user: (i) will not have any copyright or other property rights in or to content that they (or others) post on the LSAC Digital Platforms; (ii) specifically waive such rights; and (iii) hereby grant all users a license to use (including the right to publish) all information posted by them on the LSAC Digital Platforms.
    5. Discussion topics are not to be relied upon as specific advice, and such responses are not intended to constitute guidelines or advice for attendee behavior.
    6. Users should exercise both common sense and courtesy in the content the user submits to the LSAC Digital Platforms and may not use the LSAC Digital Platforms to transmit defamatory, obscene, or otherwise offensive content.
    7. Users may not post or distribute files, articles, or other images to the LSAC Digital Platforms. User postings shall be specifically limited to comments and commentary from the users.
    8. Users may not post any commercial messages, advertisements, or promotions regarding any goods, products, or services on the LSAC Digital Platforms.
    9. Users must respect the security of the LSAC Digital Platforms and may not attempt to gain access or provide access to areas that are not readily accessible to the users.
    10. Users are prohibited from using the LSAC Digital Platforms to distribute any content that may be illegal, unlawful, or otherwise morally unscrupulous. For purposes of illustration, the LSAC Digital Platforms may not be used to solicit or disseminate information having to do with, or any activity related to, cheating, circumventing test security, test content, illegal drugs, pornography, gambling, spreading computer viruses, software infringement, trafficking in credit card codes, illegal boycotts and/or any other illegal, unlawful, or otherwise morally unscrupulous behavior or activity.
    11. The LSAC Digital Platforms may not be used in any manner that violates applicable international, federal, state or local laws, or any other policies, procedures, rules, or regulations that are applicable to the LSAC Digital Platforms.
    12. LSAC may reject, terminate, or suspend access to the LSAC Digital Platforms to any individual that does not agree to abide by this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct and reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to: (i) remove any postings or other content that is inconsistent with the LSAC Forum Code of Conduct, or otherwise not in the best interests of LSAC; and (ii) reject, terminate, or suspend access to the LSAC Digital Platforms for any violation of this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct or for otherwise acting in any manner contrary to the best interests of LSAC.

  3. Prohibited Conduct and Behaviors

    By registering for and/or attending the LSAC Forum, you accept and agree to abide by the LSAC Forum Code of Conduct. If you do not wish to accept or agree to the LSAC Forum Code of Conduct, you may not attend the LSAC Forum or access the LSAC Digital Platforms. By using the LSAC Digital Platforms, you understand and agree that you are not permitted to engage in any of the following conduct or behaviors and any such conduct or behaviors is explicitly prohibited and engaging in any such conduct or behavior may result from your removal from the LSAC Forum and/or the LSAC Digital Platforms and/or denial of entry to a future LSAC Forum and/or denial of access to any future LSAC Digital Platforms:

    1. Posting your own as well as other individual’s personally identifiable information (e.g., name, address, phone number, places of employment, etc.).
    2. Posting links to phishing sites, malware, or spyware.
    3. Recording, capturing, copying, downloading, or otherwise sharing any recording or screenshot from the LSAC Forum and/or any law school representative and/or displaying such content on any third-party website, platform, or forum.
    4. Impersonating any other user.
    5. Spamming, bashing, flaming, or trolling.
    6. Any kind of encouragement towards taking drugs, drinking alcohol, or otherwise engaging in morally unscrupulous conduct or behavior.
    7. Creating multiple accounts.
    8. Posting something that is knowingly false.
    9. Thread bumping, hijacking, or posting comments that are unrelated to the original topic and making it difficult for other users to follow the discussion.
    10. Engaging in political discussions or otherwise posting content in support of, or in opposition to, any political candidate, or political party.
    11. Posting pornography, inappropriate or offensive conduct, warez, and/or any other content that is not in the best interests of LSAC as determined by LSAC.
    12. Linking to cracks, key generators, pirated content, and promoting piracy.
    13. Threats of violence, harassment, or privacy breach.
    14. Using a third party’s intellectual property (full or partial) without the consent or authorization to do so.
    15. Use of language that is abusive, vulgar, hateful, defamatory, obscene, explicit, profane, threatening, privacy-invasive, or otherwise unlawful.
    16. Encouraging any other user not to abide by the LSAC Forum Code of Conduct.
    17. Taking any other action that is deemed inappropriate by LSAC at LSAC’s sole discretion.

DISCLAIMER

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THE LSAC DIGITAL PLATFORMS ARE THOSE OF THE USER POSTING THE CONTENT AND DO NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS REPRESENTING THE VIEWS OF LSAC. LSAC MAKES NO WARRANTY, GUARANTEE, OR REPRESENTATION AS TO THE ACCURACY OR SUFFICIENCY OF THE INFORMATION POSTED ON THE LSAC DIGITAL PLATFORMS, WHETHER POSTED BY LSAC OR ANY THIRD PARTY, AND LSAC ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY REGARDING THE USE OR MISUSE OF SUCH INFORMATION FOR ANY PURPOSE. LSAC DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN COPIES OF ANY INFORMATION POSTED ON THE LSAC DIGITAL PLATFORMS OR TO ASSURE THAT SUCH INFORMATION IS DELETED. LSAC DOES NOT ENDORSE, APPROVE, RECOMMEND, OR CERTIFY ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE, PRODUCT, OR PROCESS PRESENTED OR MENTIONED ON THE LSAC DIGITAL PLATFORMS, AND INFORMATION FROM THE LSAC DIGITAL PLATFORMS SHOULD NOT BE REFERENCED IN ANY WAY TO IMPLY SUCH APPROVAL OR ENDORSEMENT. NEVERTHELESS, LSAC RETAINS THE RIGHT TO MONITOR POSTED CONTENT AND INFORMATION AND REMOVE ANY SUCH CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT IT BELIEVES DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF THE LSAC FORUM CODE OF CONDUCT OR ARE NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF LSAC.

Choice of Law

The LSAC Forum Code of Conduct shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States of America, exclusive of its choice of law or conflict of laws provisions. In addition, users consent to be subject to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the state courts located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania or the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, whichever has jurisdiction, and waive any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such court in the event of any dispute between the parties.

Amendments

LSAC reserves the right to revise, amend, modify, supplement, or change the terms of this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct, as it determines from time to time in the best interests of LSAC; provided, that, all users are notified prior to any such change by receiving a copy of the revised, amended, modified, supplement, or changed LSAC Forum Code of Conduct. Attendance at any subsequent LSAC Forum and/or access of the LSAC Digital Platforms constitutes the user’s continuing agreement to be bound by the LSAC Forum Code of Conduct, as amended from time to time.

Acceptance of LSAC Forum Code of Conduct

By attending the LSAC Forum and/or accessing the LSAC Digital Platforms, you (i) represent and warrant that you have read this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct, including, without limitation the terms of the Release set forth above; (ii) fully understand the terms of this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct, including, without limitation, the Release included herein, and acknowledge that you have had the opportunity to review this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct, including, without limitation, the terms of the Release, with an attorney of your choosing if you so desire; and (iii) agree to be legally bound by the terms of this LSAC Forum Code of Conduct.