Independent choice
The individual decides
The person seeking guidance decides whether to contact Everett, another lawyer, or no lawyer at all.
Professional Introductions
When someone independently asks for legal guidance.
Everett Pepper welcomes professional introductions from community members who encounter individuals seeking legal guidance after a serious injury. No compensation of any kind is offered or accepted for such introductions. All inquiries are handled directly with the injured person, who makes an independent choice about counsel.
Purpose
Public contact information for people who ask.
This page does not establish a referral program or authorize anyone to solicit legal business. It explains how a community member may share Everett's publicly available contact information when an individual independently requests legal guidance.
Direct communication
The firm handles the inquiry
Pepper & Odom conducts its own conflict review, consultation, case evaluation, and engagement process directly with the individual.
No compensation
No payment or benefit
No referral fee, gift, discount, reciprocal promise, or other compensation is offered or accepted for an introduction.
Professional Boundaries
No screening, steering, or promises.
No case evaluationThe community member does not assess liability, damages, deadlines, or whether Pepper & Odom will accept the matter.
No solicitationNo one is authorized to pressure an individual, recommend a legal outcome, or solicit legal business on the firm's behalf.
No confidential recordsMedical records, detailed health information, Social Security numbers, and other sensitive material should not be sent with an initial introduction.
No reciprocal arrangementAn introduction creates no obligation, business exchange, or expectation of referrals in return.
If an introduction is requested
Keep it limited and voluntary.
Respond to the request.
Share contact information only when the individual asks for legal guidance or a lawyer's contact information.
Share contact information only when the individual asks for legal guidance or a lawyer's contact information.
Ask permission.
Before making a direct introduction, confirm that the person wants to be contacted or wants their basic contact information shared.
Before making a direct introduction, confirm that the person wants to be contacted or wants their basic contact information shared.
Share only basic information.
Provide Everett's public phone number, email address, or webpage. A direct introduction should contain no more than the person's name and preferred contact method.
Provide Everett's public phone number, email address, or webpage. A direct introduction should contain no more than the person's name and preferred contact method.
Let the firm communicate directly.
Pepper & Odom handles every legal question, conflict check, evaluation, and engagement decision with the individual.
Pepper & Odom handles every legal question, conflict check, evaluation, and engagement decision with the individual.