• Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek, Blomberg & Skok, P.A.
• 4 Professional Drive, Suite 145, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879
• Phone: 301.840.8565   |   Fax: 301.590.9784
• Email: info@gweblaw.com
   

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• Serving clients and community for more than 30 years.

At Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek, Blomberg & Skok, P.A., we value your trust and confidence and want to assure you that all personal and business information provided to our Firm, or to others through our Firm, is kept in the highest confidence by our Firm and its employees. As required by the Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.6, we adhere to the highest professional and ethical requirements to keep privileged communications confidential.

This Privacy Policy outlines the type of information we may collect from our clients, what we do to protect that information, and examples of when we may share this information with third parties.

In relation to the legal services provided by our Firm, we collect a great deal of personal and business information from our clients and third parties. Examples of this type of information is as follows:

• Family status, including marital status and names of family members.

• Financial information, including tax returns, W-2 Forms, profit and loss statements, and bank records.

• Credit information.

• Legal documents, including contracts, wills, trusts, marital agreements, and leases.

Recognizing the importance of keeping certain types of information provided by the client confidential, we take the following steps to protect your personal and business information:

• Our attorneys and staff are bound by confidentiality policies created both internally and by the Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers.

• Before communicating what we consider to be confidential information to a third party, we communicate with you about such disclosures.

• After a case has become inactive for more than 5 years, we offer to return the file to the client or have the same destroyed.

• After a case has been completed, we offer to return the file to the client or have the same destroyed.  Files not returned to the client are destroyed after 3 years.

At times, Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek, Blomberg & Skok, P.A., and its employees are compelled to provide information about you as part of the practice of law. These instances include the following:

• Supplying of documents in response to discovery requests including requests for production of documents and subpoenas duces tecum.

• Supplying of information as part of our representation of the client including, but not limited to, due diligence in a business purchase or sale, informal discovery consented to by the client, medical information in a personal injury case, and employment related information in a personal injury case.

• In certain circumstances, information including social security numbers and employee identification numbers must be supplied to certain government authorities.

• Under no circumstance will we sell or otherwise disclose our client list or any of your personal information to any outside party for purposes of marketing or solicitation.

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At Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek, Blomberg & Skok, P.A., we take our obligation to you and to the law seriously. If you have any further questions concerning how we will handle and protect your personal information, please feel free to contact us.

Thank you for allowing us to provide you service, and we truly value our relationship with our clientele.