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Effective 14 April 2026. This website is operated by Bay Legal PC, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California.
Under California law, a communication that provides information about a lawyer or a lawyer’s services in order to encourage someone to secure those services is an advertisement. Pages on this site carry a call to action, so they are advertising. The attorney responsible for the content of this website is Jayson R. Elliott, CA Bar No. 332479, Bay Legal PC.
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