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B. DEFINITIONS
<br />Wherever used in this Policy:
<br />Claim means a demard received by you for money or services arising from an act, error or omission in your
<br />performance of legal services for others. A claim shall include, but is not limited to, the service of suit or the
<br />institution of an arbitration proceeding against the Insured or a request to toll the statute of limitations. Claim
<br />does not include a demand for money or services in criminal proceedings of any type brought against an Insured,
<br />or in any proceedings that seek injunctive, declaratory, equitable or non -pecuniary relief or remedies. Claim also
<br />mans a demand received by you for money or services arcing from a network Incident.
<br />2, Claim expenses means:
<br />a. Reasonable and customary fees for necessary legal work performed by attorneys designated or approved
<br />by us;
<br />b. All other reasonable and necessary fees, costs and expenses approved by us and resulting from the
<br />investigation, adjustment, defense and appeal of a daim; arid,
<br />C. Premiums for any appeal bond, attachment bond or similar bond in an amount not to exceed the
<br />unexhausted Limits of Liability of this Policy, provided that we have no obligation to apply for or furnish
<br />any such bond.
<br />Claim expenses do not indude crisis event expenses, disciplinary proceeding expenses, privacy
<br />Incident expenses, or salaries or expenses of either your or our employees or attome,rs.
<br />1 Commonly accepted technologies means current and conventional methodologies designed to secure
<br />confidential client information and the Insured's computer system Ghat are appropriate to the size and
<br />complexity of the Named Insured inducting, but not limited to, ut;lizatior, of i.) firewall protection; ii.) wireless
<br />encryption, such as Wi-R Protected Access (WPA); III.) pasvNord protection; and, iv.) a destruction protocol
<br />designed to remove or destroy confidential client information on any retired computer system, facsimile
<br />or copier machine.
<br />4. Computer system means any device that is used to work with dient data, indudirg, but not limited to, desktop
<br />computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphores and sof ware, including the data they contain, and
<br />associated input and output devices, terminal devices, data storage devices, network equipment, components,
<br />firmware and electronic backup facilities, including systems accessible through the Internet, intranets, extranets,
<br />or virtual private networks when such are used to work with dient data.
<br />5. Confidential client information means confidential or proprietary information not available to the general
<br />public received by an Insured in connecton with an act, error or omission in the performance of legal services
<br />to others regarding:
<br />An individual dienCs non-public personal or financial information, or protected heaith informaton; or,
<br />b. An entity or organization client's commercial information.
<br />6. Controlled enterprise mans any existing or prospective entity, business enterprise, or real estate interest,
<br />other than the Named Insured, in which any Insured and/or their lawful spouse, or an accumulation of
<br />Insureds andr'o' their lawful spouses, at the time the wrongful act occurs or the claim is made:
<br />a. Owns, owned or will own ten percent (10%) or more of the enterprise, entity, or real estate interest;
<br />b. Votes, voted or will vote ten percent (10%) or more of tt,e issued and outstanding voting stock or elects
<br />ten percent (10%) or more of the directors in an incorporated entry;
<br />C. Is or was entitled to receive ten percent (10%) or more of the profits of an unincorporated enterprise or
<br />entity;
<br />d. Holds, held or will hold ten percent (10%) or more of the debt instruments of the entity, enterprise, or real
<br />estate Interest; or,
<br />e, Is or was entitled to directly control, operate or manage the entity or business enterprise, or ad as a
<br />general partner of a limited partnership, managing general parfiership, or comparable position in any other
<br />business entity or enterprise.
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