What 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…
Continue readingMost of our Herndon law firm’s clients assume that a lawyer must have many years of experience before being eligible to become a judge. And to be an appeals judge, many would assume even more years of “seasoning” and trial exposure would be required. In Florida, a State Senator is trying to get the amount…
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