Just because an injured victims agrees to settle their car or bicycle crash case before trial, it does not mean that there is no more work to be done. In fact many actions must be taken immediately upon reaching a compromise agreement in order to avoid unnecessary costs and inconvenience. The state or Federal Court…
Continue readingWhat kinds of issues are that inflammatory ? Examples of irrelevant topics Doug Landau of the Herndon law firm ABRAMS LANDAU has succeeded in getting excluded from a personal injury trial include: prior accidents (with no injury, affecting other body parts, causing only property damage, etc.), criminal record (no felonies or misdemeanors involving “moral turpitude”…
Continue readingWe have all seen scenes from depositions. The story in the recent hit movie “The Social Network” is told in large part through the FaceBook founder’s disastrous deposition testimony. The process of filing a lawsuit and seeing it all the way through trial after a car crash, truck accident or slip and fall can at…
Continue readingA “Guardian Ad Litem” is usually a lawyer appointed to meet with injury victims who wish to compromise their lawsuit who is able to then explain to the court, independently of their own counsel, why a settlement of their case is or is not in their best interests. Following up on the ABRAMS LANDAU Herndon…
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The Florida Bar News reported in “News and Notes” December 15th, 2010 the fact that Doug Landau presented “Creative Ways to Increase Settlement and Get it Sooner Rather Than Later” at the Virginia trial lawyers (“VTLA“) Tort Law Seminars all over the Commonwealth of Virginia, teaching lawyers in Roanoke, Richmond, Virginia Beach and Fairfax. The…
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