Contact
One address, a conflict check before anything substantive, and no case material sent through this site
The address
Email reaches this site at [email protected]. That is the whole of the contact surface: there is no intake form that stores anything, no case review, no scheduling widget and no chat. The form below composes a message in your own mail application and posts nothing to this website.
For anything to do with credentials, publications or the current engagement record, hartzer.com is the place to look. This site describes the work; that one is the record that is actually kept up to date.
What to send first, and what not to
A first message is short by design. The domain names at issue, the parties and any related entities, the forum if one is already known, and the general nature of the question are enough to run a conflict check and to say whether the matter is a fit. That is the order: the conflict check comes before anything substantive is exchanged, and it protects both sides of the conversation.
What should not arrive in a first email: pleadings, discovery, client communications, privileged material, or anything else that would be awkward to have received before a conflict check has cleared. Email is not a secure channel, and an unsolicited document is not covered by any protection simply because it was sent in good faith. If a matter proceeds, a secure route for materials is arranged then.
Contact from a party rather than from counsel is common and is not a problem in itself. It is worth knowing, though, that the practical route for a live dispute runs through counsel: the scope of a technical opinion, what is discoverable, and how a report is used are all decisions that belong to the lawyer directing the matter.
What contact does not create
Sending a message, receiving a reply, or reading anything on this site creates no expert-client relationship, no attorney-client relationship and no engagement. Nothing here preserves a deadline, tolls a limitation period, or holds a place in a proceeding. A response to an email is not advice, and no part of this site is a substitute for counsel.
The engagement process page sets out what actually happens after a conflict check clears — scope in writing, preservation, analysis, report — and the disclaimer states the limits of everything published here.