Terms of Service

1. Agreement and parties

“BigLaw Bear,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean the operator of the Platform. “You” means the individual using the Platform and, if you use a firm or club workspace, the organization you represent. If you accept these Terms on behalf of a law firm, student club, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” includes that organization.

2. Who these Terms cover

These Terms apply to:

• Visitors, who browse public pages such as the firm directory, Job Board, library, and tools.
• Students, including current and incoming law students and other individuals who create a recruiting profile.
• Firms, including law firm employees, contractors, and other recruiting personnel who use the firm portal.
• Club users, including student-club officers and members who use Club OS or related club features.

Section 4 applies to Students. Section 5 applies to Firms. Section 6 applies to Club users. The remaining sections apply to everyone unless they say otherwise.

3. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old. The student service is intended for people exploring or participating in U.S. legal recruiting. We may ask you to verify a school email, enrollment, or firm affiliation and may suspend accounts that we cannot verify or that we reasonably believe are ineligible.

You are responsible for your login credentials, multi-factor authentication devices, and all activity under your account. Keep your information accurate and current. Notify us immediately at hello@biglawbear.com if you suspect unauthorized access. We are not responsible for loss caused by your failure to protect your credentials.

Do not share accounts. Firm and club administrators must limit access to people who need it for legitimate recruiting or club operations and must revoke access when someone leaves.

4. Student terms

4.1 Profiles and visibility

You choose what to include in your profile, including academic history, preferences, resume, transcript, and other materials you upload. Provide information that is accurate and not misleading. Do not fabricate grades, ranks, employment, or identity.

Firms do not automatically see every student. Under current product behavior, a firm can see a student profile when that student has a qualifying relationship with the firm, such as a Gold Star, an application where applicant management is enabled, or an RSVP to that firm's event. You can hide your profile, pause recruiting, or restrict outreach from Settings where those controls are offered. Those controls are enforced on our systems. They do not erase copies a firm already received.

4.2 Gold Medal and Gold Stars

Gold Medal and Gold Star selections signal interest in a firm. Current limits are explained at /how-rankings-work. You may change unused selections. Once a selection is submitted and made visible to a firm, that firm may retain the fact of your interest. Do not use interest signals solely to fish for information without genuine recruiting interest. We may review or suspend accounts for abuse.

4.3 Applications, events, and documents

If you apply through BigLaw Bear, RSVP to an event, or otherwise send materials to a firm, that firm may review, download, and keep those materials for recruiting. Withdrawing an application or deleting your account removes the live record on the Platform. It does not require a firm to destroy copies it already stored in its own files, except where law requires it.

You are responsible for the content of resumes, transcripts, writing samples, and answers you submit. Do not upload documents you do not have the right to share.

4.4 Demographic information

Voluntary demographic self-identification is optional. You may choose “Prefer not to say” or clear answers later. Firms do not receive individual demographic fields. They may see aggregate, anonymized statistics with small-count suppression. Do not assume a firm has seen your individual demographic answers.

4.5 Job Board and external applications

The public Job Board lists summer associate, 3L, entry-level, and related seats. Some apply buttons send you to a firm website or another third-party system. Those destinations are not controlled by BigLaw Bear. Read the firm's own notices before you apply. Guest visitors may see a limited preview. Creating a free profile unlocks additional listings where the product provides that gate.

4.6 No employment promise

BigLaw Bear does not hire you, place you, or guarantee interviews, callbacks, or offers. Firm participation and every employment decision belong to the firm.

5. Firm terms

5.1 Access and authority

Firm portal access is limited to people your organization authorizes. The person who accepts the Data Use Agreement represents that they have authority to bind the firm. Additional users inherit these Terms. Administrators must assign permissions carefully. We log access and significant recruiting actions for security and compliance.

5.2 Recruiting-only use of student information

Student information obtained through the Platform is for legitimate legal recruiting and related campus or club engagement only. You agree that you will not:

• Sell, license, broker, or monetize student information
• Use student information for advertising unrelated to recruiting
• Share student information outside your organization except with service providers who are bound to protect it and to use it only for your recruiting
• Use Platform data to train, develop, fine-tune, or improve any machine-learning or generative-AI system
• Attempt to re-identify students from aggregate demographic statistics

You may export student information only for your firm's internal recruiting records, and only through the export tools we provide to authorized users. Keep exported files secured and delete them when they are no longer needed for recruiting or legal retention.

5.3 Self-reported student data

Student information is supplied by students. BigLaw Bear does not independently verify grades, ranks, employment, or identity. You must verify credentials before making an employment decision. We are not liable for a student's inaccurate or incomplete statements.

5.4 Job Board listings and application marketing

Firms may publish recruiting openings on the public Job Board and may publish an application opportunity on the firm profile. You warrant that apply links, dates, offices, and program details you submit are accurate, that you have the right to publish them, and that the destination site is a genuine application or careers page. A published Job Board row replaces the matching editorial snapshot for that seat. We may unpublish, edit, or refuse listings that are stale, misleading, unsafe, or off-purpose. Demo and preview workspaces cannot publish live listings.

Application Marketing on a firm profile and a Job Board listing are separate surfaces. Publishing one does not automatically publish the other.

5.5 Events, outreach, and messages

Event pages, RSVPs, and outreach tools are for recruiting and educational contact that students have a reasonable basis to expect. You must honor unsubscribe and outreach opt-out preferences. You must comply with CAN-SPAM, TCPA, and similar laws when you message students. Do not use the Platform to spam.

5.6 Hiring decisions and AI

Your firm remains solely responsible for every screening, interview, and employment decision. AI-assisted features are optional tools. They are not a substitute for human judgment. You must not rely on an AI score as the sole basis for an employment decision. If you use automated employment decision tools, you are responsible for notices, opt-outs, bias audits, and other legal requirements that apply to your firm, including New York City Local Law 144 where it applies. See AI Methodology and NYC AEDT Notice.

5.7 Public firm profile

Proposed corrections to public firm profiles go through editorial review. Do not submit confidential client information, non-public personnel data, or anything you do not have the right to publish. Rankings and third-party data displayed on firm pages come from public sources or suppliers and may lag or contain errors.

5.8 Data Processing Agreement

Where BigLaw Bear processes personal data on a firm's behalf, the Data Processing Agreement applies on request and when executed. If there is a conflict between an executed DPA and these Terms on data-processing issues, the DPA controls for that firm.

6. Student club and campus organization terms

Club officers who use Club OS or related tools may manage membership, events, and sponsorship workflows for their organization. Club users must have authority from the club. Do not use club tools to collect student data for sale, to harass members, or to impersonate a school. Firm-club partnership features do not transfer student profiles to a firm except through the recruiting rules in Sections 4 and 5.

7. Public information, Job Board, and third-party sites

Public pages may include firm profiles, compensation maps, library articles, quizzes, and the Job Board. We compile information from public sources, firm submissions, and editorial research. It may be incomplete or out of date. Confirm dates and apply instructions on the firm's own site. The Job Board snapshot began from Mosaic Scholars' Student Docket and is hosted independently by BigLaw Bear. Mosaic is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the live board.

Links to firm career sites, calendars, video providers, payment processors, and other third parties are provided for convenience. Their terms and privacy practices govern those sites. We are not responsible for third-party content, downtime, or hiring processes.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Provide false, impersonated, or misleading identity or credential information
• Use the Platform for any purpose other than legitimate career exploration, legal recruiting, or authorized club operations
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or use automated tools to extract data except through documented APIs we expressly permit
• Bypass rate limits, authentication, invite tokens, offer-signing tokens, webhook signatures, or similar controls
• Attempt to access another person's account or data not intended for you
• Harass, defame, threaten, or unlawfully discriminate against other users, firm representatives, or our staff
• Upload malware or content that harms the Platform
• Resell, redistribute, or commercially exploit Platform data
• Use Platform data to train or improve machine-learning or generative-AI systems
• Send unsolicited bulk email or otherwise violate CAN-SPAM, GDPR, TCPA, or similar law
• Reverse engineer the Platform except as applicable law permits

Good-faith security research is covered by our responsible disclosure policy. We may suspend or terminate access for violations.

9. AI-assisted features

BigLaw Bear offers optional AI-assisted features, which may include application-review assistance, interview notes, transcription, and related tools. Students may opt out of AI prescreen where the product provides that control. Interview recording, transcription, and similar features require the consents described at /legal/ai-interview-consent. AI output can be wrong. Humans remain responsible for how it is used. Details, limits, and opt-out paths are at /legal/ai-methodology.

10. Your content and license

You retain ownership of content you upload, including resumes, transcripts, photos, event descriptions, and Job Board copy. You grant BigLaw Bear a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, display, and transmit that content solely to operate, secure, improve, and provide the Platform, to communicate with you, and to comply with law. This license ends when the content is deleted from our systems, except for copies retained as described in Section 17, backups, and legal holds, and except for copies already delivered to a firm or club under these Terms.

You represent that you have the rights needed to grant this license and that your content does not infringe others' rights or violate law.

11. Intellectual property

The Platform, including software, design, trademarks, editorial firm profiles, quizzes, and compilation of public recruiting information, is owned by BigLaw Bear or its licensors. These Terms do not transfer any ownership to you. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from the Platform except as needed to use the features we provide. Rankings and other third-party data remain subject to their owners' rights. Citing an individual public rank is different from reproducing a supplier's compilation as your own product.

12. Fees, billing, and free student access

The student service is offered free of charge unless we clearly state otherwise before you buy something. Firm access may be free, trial, or paid depending on the workspace we provision. Paid subscriptions, if any, are billed through our payment processor. Taxes, failed payments, and chargebacks may result in suspension. Fees are non-refundable except as required by law or as we agree in writing. We may change prices with notice to the billing contact.

Preview, demo, and fixture workspaces use sample data. They are not a license to contact real students or to publish live Job Board listings.

13. Confidentiality and security

Firms and club users must protect student information with reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, including unique logins, multi-factor authentication where offered, and least-privilege access. Do not post student materials to public channels. See Security Practices for how we protect the Platform. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure. You will notify us promptly of a suspected incident involving Platform credentials or exported student files.

14. Disclaimers

BigLaw Bear is a recruiting information platform. We are not a law firm, employer, placement agency, or credit-reporting agency. Nothing on the Platform is legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is formed by using it. Firm profiles, salary figures, Job Board dates, and similar information are compiled from public sources and submissions and may be wrong or stale.

THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT RECRUITING OUTCOMES WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

15. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BIGLAW BEAR AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST RECRUITING OPPORTUNITIES, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE PLATFORM, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE PLATFORM WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE PLATFORM IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS ($50).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations. In those places, the limits apply to the fullest extent permitted. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud or for personal injury caused by our gross negligence where such a waiver is prohibited.

16. Indemnification

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless BigLaw Bear and its affiliates from claims, damages, losses, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of (a) your content, (b) your use of the Platform, (c) your recruiting, employment, or messaging decisions, (d) your Job Board or application listings, or (e) your violation of these Terms or of law. We may assume exclusive defense at your expense.

17. Suspension, termination, and deletion

We may suspend or terminate access immediately if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, create risk for other users, fail to pay, or if we discontinue the Platform. You may stop using the Platform at any time. Students may delete an account from Settings or by contacting us. Deletion removes the live student profile from the Platform, withdraws open applications on the Platform, and deletes uploaded files we still control, subject to backups, legal holds, security logs, and records we must keep. Firms that already received your materials may retain their copies as described in Section 4.3.

After termination, licenses you granted for copies already delivered survive as needed for the recipient's lawful recruiting records. Sections that by their nature should survive, including 8, 10 through 16, 19, and 20, survive.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The version date at the top will change. Material changes will be announced by email to the address on your account, by in-product notice, or both. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Platform and delete your account. Firm users may be asked to re-acknowledge the Data Use Agreement when that acknowledgment is updated.

19. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, excluding conflict-of-law rules. Before filing a claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing hello@biglawbear.com and allowing 30 days for a response. If the dispute is not resolved, exclusive venue is the state or federal courts located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. Either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

20. General terms

These Terms, plus the Privacy Policy and any executed DPA or order form, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Platform. They supersede prior terms on the same subject. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest remains in effect. You may not assign these Terms without our consent, except that a firm may assign them to a successor in a merger or sale of substantially all recruiting operations. We may assign these Terms. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. There are no third-party beneficiaries except as stated for indemnified affiliates. Headings are for convenience only. These Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship.

21. Contact

Questions about these Terms:

• General: hello@biglawbear.com
• Legal: legal@biglawbear.com
• Privacy: privacy@biglawbear.com
• Security: security@biglawbear.com

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