LANDAU LAW SHOP - Highlights from 2007
Posted by: Doug in Auto Accidents, Bicycle Accidents, Defective Products, Disability, Medical Information
At ABRAMS LANDAU, we are thankful for the opportunity to help people, one at a time. We appreciate the chance to assist families who come to us for help. As the Landau Law Shop looks back on another successful year, we note some of the highlights of 2007:
Herndon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau was nominated again as a “Super Lawyer” by the Washington Post. Remarkably, he was the only solo practitioner selected for Workplace Injury Cases in Virginia. The listings in the special edition of the Sunday Post Magazine did not lead to a raise in allowance from Mr. Landau’s mom, but it did reaffirm what clients, co-counsel and those who have seen him in court already knew, that he’s a good lawyer who is passionate about what he does to help people.
Inclusion in the book “The Best Lawyers in America,”for Doug Landau. This was again a very special honor, as hisfather, Norman Landau, was in the very first editions of this book. Thereare very few lawyers anywhere in the country who are able to successfully trypersonal injury, workers compensation and Social Security Disability claims forthe same client (and their family). There are even fewer who can do so inas many state and Federal Courts as the Landau Law Shop’s own Doug Landau.
Once again receiving the highest ratings for skill and ethics by the respected, peer-reviewed Martindale Hubbell (Lexis Nexis). Virginia Trial Lawyer Doug Landau once again received the “A-V” rating. Norman Landau, Doug’s illustrious trial lawyer father, also received this highest rating during his lifetime. The Herndon attorney feels this represents his continuation of excellence in the practice of law, and especially the trials of injury and disability cases for deserving clients.
Our case against DoubleTree Hotels on behalf of a disabled, wheelchair-bound professor was selected as the “Spotlight” case of the month by the 70,000 member Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now American Association for Justice). http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=30999365&message_id=235739&user_id=ATLA_Trial Doug Landau was successful on behalf of a hotel guest who was thrown and injured in a courtesy van. This case was concluded in the Federal Court in Alexandria, Virginia for a client from South Carolina against a national hotel chain. Herndon lawyer Doug Landau provided the former chief judge of the trial court with
a DVD of selected deposition excerpts as well as computer animations of what happens to a paralyzed body that is subject to a vehicular accident. By using this computer and video technology, the judge was able to understand what happens to a paraplegic’s body in a car crash or van crash. Mr. Landau has lectured (and published) about wheelchair accidents, transportation cases and unique negligence claims throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Despite contrary case law, convincing a Senior New Jersey trial court judge to allow evidence of not only prior dog attacks and dog bites, but subsequent attacks and bites as well. These rulings in Mr. Landau’s client’s favor in the Hudson County Superior Court lead to a settlement at trial over four times the highest offer in the case. In another “first,” the Abrams Landau trial team had computers, computer legal research and even a printer at counsel table at trial !
The hard-working Abrams Landau team won and settled cases in
New Jersey
Virginia,
North Carolina,
Washington, D.C.,
Florida,
Maryland,
South Carolina,
West Virginia,
for clients in: VA, MD, DC, WV, CT, NJ, RI, FL, MN, WI, CA, SC, NC, BULGARIA, MEXICO & ENGLAND.
We look forward to helping people in 2008 and wish you and your family a happy holiday season and a great new year !
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