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KELLER AND HECKMAN LLP <br />3 <br />Unless terminated earlier, our attorney-client relationship will expire automatically if we have not performed any legal <br />services billed to you during a two-year period. Of course, we appreciate the opportunity to work with you and hope you <br />will remain an active client of ours for many years. <br />Document Retention and Destruction <br />In the course of our representation of you, we may come into possession of electronic or hard copies or originals of <br />documents or other materials belonging to you or otherwise constituting client records, such as scientific data, product <br />formulations, business strategy, correspondence, pleadings, transcripts, exhibits, physical evidence, and other items <br />reasonably necessary to your representation (collectively, “Client Materials”). Once the particular matter to which those <br />Client Materials relate has been concluded, you may request the return of the Client Materials to you. If you request their <br />return, we may choose to make an electronic or hard copy of all or a portion of the Client Materials before returning them. <br />If you do not request their return, and in the absence of any other specific arrangements with you or legal requirements to <br />the contrary, you agree that after notifying you and receiving no objection within sixty (60) days, we may dispose of those <br />Client Materials consistent with any reasonable records retention policy that we may have in effect from time to time. <br />You agree that our firm owns and controls its files including, but not limited to, firm administrative records, time and <br />expense reports, personnel and staffing materials, and credit and accounting records. You agree that our files remain our <br />property and for various reasons, including the minimization of unnecessary storage expenses, or for no reason, we may <br />destroy or otherwise dispose of our files at a reasonable time after the conclusion of the matter. <br />Entire Agreement and Amendment <br />These Terms and Conditions of Engagement and the engagement letter constitute the entire agreement between you and <br />Keller and Heckman LLP and supersede all prior communications, understandings, and agreements relating to your <br />engagement of Keller and Heckman LLP, whether oral or written. Except as otherwise provided in these Terms and <br />Conditions of Engagement or the engagement letter, neither can be amended or modified, in whole or in part, except with <br />the written consent of both you and Keller and Heckman LLP; provided, however, that the Subject Matter of this <br />engagement may include other matters that you and Keller and Heckman LLP agree to from time to time whether through <br />oral or written means. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: A6371713-B964-4D84-9086-021383D9FDF3