Frequent questions, answered plainly.

1. What is Admitted?

Admitted is a private email membership for independently responsible lawyers. An approved member will hold one personal @admitted.law email address backed by identity and license verification and a professionally operated email service. Applications are not yet open.

2. Is Admitted a law firm, bar association, regulator, rating, or certification?

No. Admitted is an email service and membership administrator. It does not practice law, admit anyone to a bar, regulate lawyers, rate them, refer clients, or certify competence. Members are independent and are not associated with one another in the practice of law.

Admitted is not a law firm, bar association, regulator, referral service, rating, certification, endorsement, or guarantee of competence, ethics, results, or professional standing.

3. Who may apply?

Membership will be limited to lawyers who are currently active and authorized to practice in a supported U.S. jurisdiction. A jurisdiction is supported only after a reliable official verification procedure exists for it; no jurisdiction is supported yet, and the list will live on the Standards page as it opens. V1 has no memberships for law students, paralegals, firms, or teams.

4. What does “verified” - and membership - actually mean?

Verification is time-bounded and specific. Membership confirms only that Admitted verified the member's identity and current authorization to practice in at least one listed jurisdiction as of a stated date, with periodic reverification afterward. It never certifies quality, ethics, specialty, results, or universal good standing, and it is not an endorsement or referral. The exact meaning of every status label is on the Standards page.

5. What does the application fee cover?

The $99.99 fee is a one-time application processing fee. It pays for staff review of your identity, license information, and resume against objective eligibility criteria. It is not recurring, and it is not a payment for an address.

6. Is approval guaranteed?

No. The fee pays for review, not for an outcome. Applications that do not meet the published criteria are not approved, and rejection never triggers membership billing.

7. Is the fee refundable?

Yes, in defined cases: a duplicate charge, a technical failure that prevents review, withdrawal before documented review begins, a payment Admitted accepted for an unsupported jurisdiction because of its own error, a review Admitted cannot perform, or wherever law or payment-network rules require. After documented human review begins, the fee is normally not refundable merely because the application is not approved. The exact rules and the request procedure are in the Refund Policy.

8. Why is a resume required, and what should be removed from it?

The resume is used only to check work-history consistency during review. Before uploading, remove client names, matter facts, privileged material, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home address, photographs, medical or family information, and anything else not needed to verify work history. Resumes are held in private, access-controlled storage and deleted on the schedule published in the Privacy Notice.

9. How are license records checked?

Against official regulator sources for each supported jurisdiction, with the source and date recorded. A jurisdiction is listed only when a reliable official verification procedure exists for it. The method, review cadence, and reverification cadence are published on the Standards page; internal fraud heuristics are not published.

10. May I choose my address?

You submit ranked address preferences. Local parts are 3 to 32 characters of lowercase letters and numbers, with single ., _, or - separators, starting and ending with a letter or number. Availability is never guaranteed, a reserved and prohibited handle list applies, and a syntactically valid handle can still be refused if it implies a false firm, office, specialty, certification, or another person's identity. The allowed grammar is the stricter intersection of this policy and what the contracted mailbox provider accepts once that contract exists.

11. What happens if my choices are unavailable or prohibited?

Choices are checked before payment, and clearly unavailable or prohibited choices are rejected then - you are not charged for an address you cannot have. On approval, the highest-ranked choice that is still available and allowed is reserved for you for a limited period. If no submitted choice can be assigned, you are asked for alternatives rather than being given an address you did not pick.

12. When does the monthly membership begin?

Only after approval and a second, separate checkout at $199.99 per month plus applicable tax, which you must deliberately choose to complete. Approval never converts the application fee into a subscription, and the mailbox is provisioned only after the membership payment is confirmed.

13. What mail clients or webmail are supported?

Member mail will be hosted by a contracted mailbox provider as an isolated per-member account, reachable through that provider's supported webmail and standard mail clients. No provider is contracted yet, so no specific client, protocol, or capability is promised: the exact list will appear in the member dashboard, taken from the signed provider contract and Admitted's own tests of the service - never from assumptions.

14. Is ordinary email encrypted end to end?

No. Ordinary email, including mail on this service, is not end-to-end encrypted. Transport encryption protects mail in transit where the other server supports it, but that is not a confidentiality guarantee. Apply your own professional judgment before sending privileged material by email.

15. May I use the address for bulk outreach or newsletters?

No. Bulk email, cold outreach, newsletters, and marketing automation are out of scope and prohibited by the Acceptable Use Policy. Every member shares one domain's sending reputation, so one abusive sender can damage every address; abuse controls are strict for that reason.

16. Does my employer need to approve use?

That is between you and your employer. Admitted does not promise that any employer, firm, or client permits a personal professional address for work. Check your employer's policy and your professional obligations before using the address in practice.

17. How do I cancel?

Online, with one obvious cancel control in member billing. No phone call, chat, survey, or retention offer is required. Cancellation stops future renewals and is confirmed immediately; service normally continues through the current paid period, with no prorated refund for voluntary cancellation, subject to mandatory law.

18. What happens to mail and the address after cancellation?

When the paid period ends, the address is permanently retired. A bounded authenticated export window lets you take your mail, after which mailbox content is purged on the schedule the provider contract will fix and the published retention policy. Mail sent to a retired address is rejected at delivery time - it is not delivered to anyone else and is not accepted and bounced later.

19. Will a retired address ever be assigned to someone else?

Admitted will never intentionally reassign an activated address while it controls the domain - including after cancellation, death, or expulsion. The terms also state the honest limit of that promise: no operator can guarantee control of a domain after an involuntary registry termination or loss of the domain itself.

20. How do I report impersonation, abuse, or a security issue?

Dedicated role routes for security reports, impersonation and mail abuse, and general support will be published on the Contact page and the Security page when they exist. Admitted publishes an address only when it actually routes to a staffed, monitored system - none does yet, which is why no address appears there today.