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Cookie Policy

1. INTRODUCTION We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to our website and this policy explains how Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP ("Fried Frank") or ("we") may collect and use information about you through our website. This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy.

2. FRIED FRANK WEBSITE Like most websites, Fried Frank employs cookies or similar technologies on our website. A cookie is a small data file made up of letters and numbers which is placed by a website on the device you use to access the internet. Cookies serve different purposes. In our case, we use cookies on a limited basis to provide us with information about usage of our website so that we may provide an informative and useful experience for users and to allow for improvements to the site.

We use the following cookies:

  1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
  2. Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  3. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  4. Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below: 

Cookie Title Purpose Information
Google Analytics:

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_ga

_gat

_gid		 These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the site. We use the information to compile reports and improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited.

If you register with us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim.		 Last for up to 2 years

_utm (2 years)

_ga (2 years)

_gat (1 minute)

_gid (24 hours)
Web server cookies:
Id token		 These cookies are used by the web server to optimize and prioritize the delivery of dynamic content. They improve performance and efficiency, and do not read or record any personal data related to the user. Expire when the browser is closed
Session cookies

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[https://friedfrank.vuture.net/mvc/home] _VxSessionId

[https://sites-friedfrank.vuture.net/] _VxSessionId

https://friedfrankalumni.com/] _VxSessionId		 These cookies are used for e-marketing, including:
  • when a user clicks on a “view as a webpage” link in an email to personalise a website;
  • other links to web pages;
  • tracking your website journey
  • un-subscribing: If you click unsubscribe, we will automatically log this information in our database. If you unsubscribe from any email invitation or alert, we will continue to store your personal data on a 'marketing suppression list' so as to record your preferences; and
  • Event RSVP buttons: In our invitations and confirmations we provide buttons to allow you to accept, decline, and register for that event. Clicking on these buttons will generate session cookies and your choice will be recorded in our database to help us manage the event.
 “View as a webpage”, other links to webpages and intEmailHistoryId cookies last for 1 year.

Other session cookies expire when the browser is closed
Security cookies
_incap_ses_*		 These cookies are used to remember visitor sessions across the virtual firewall and content delivery network, for the purposes of identifying and blocking bots and other potential threats. Last for 1 year

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.

It is possible to block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Contact information

If you have any questions in relation to this policy, please contact us at webmaster@friedfrank.com.

Email Disclaimer

I have read and understood the terms of use of this web site which appear below, and specifically agree to those terms, on behalf of myself and anyone else on whose behalf I am contacting anyone at Fried Frank using this site or in any way connected with this site:

The information and materials offered on this site are for general informational purposes only, do not constitute and should not be considered to be legal advice, and are presented without any representation or warranty whatsoever, including as to the accuracy or completeness of the information. No one should, or is entitled to, rely in any manner on any of the information at this site. Parties seeking advice should consult with legal counsel familiar with their particular circumstances.

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

No attorney-client relationship is created by our transmission of information from this site or by any communication by others to us (or to any of our attorneys, staff, employees, agents or representatives) through or in any way connected with this site. Users communicating with us (or to any of our attorneys, staff, employees, agents or representatives) are cautioned that we do not undertake to hold such communications or their contents in confidence and, accordingly, that they should be careful not to communicate confidential information to us. Users are further cautioned that we may represent a party directly adverse to them either now or at a later date, and that we remain free to do so notwithstanding any information which is communicated to us by the user or any other person or any solicitation of our services by the user or any other person. An attorney-client relationship between Fried Frank and users of this site or anyone else is created only by a written engagement letter signed by a partner of Fried Frank, and no course of communication shall constitute an undertaking to receive confidential information in connection with a discussion of possible future representation unless such undertaking is contained in a written letter agreement signed by a partner of Fried Frank specifying the conditions of such receipt and countersigned by a person with authority to bind the prospective client.

Links to information on sites other than those operated by, or on behalf of, Fried Frank are for your convenience only and are not an endorsement or recommendation of those sites. Fried Frank does not take any responsibility for information at these sites, nor makes any representation or warranty with respect to these sites or their information.

By clicking "Accept", I specifically agree to these terms, on behalf of myself and anyone else on whose behalf I am contacting anyone at Fried Frank.