The dangers of texting while driving are widely known. Any parent of a teenager can attest to how often the words “do not text while you drive” are drilled into the heads of young drivers. Then, why are adults still doing it? A case of “do as I say, not as I do”? According to…
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Last year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) decided to stop publishing in advance the name of the administrative law judges (ALJ) assigned to hear disability cases, a move that made trying disability cases that much more difficult. Click here to read what Herndon disability attorney Doug Landau thought of that decision. We have just learned…
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“Usually the Social Security Administration is not bound by the disability decisions of the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission (“VWC”), the DC Office of Workers Compensation (“OWC”), or even a state judge or jury’s verdict in a disabled wage earner’s case,” notes Herndon disability lawyer Doug Landau. “I have had Federal Social Security judges tell me…
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President Obama announced his BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative, which the White House describes as “a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind.” Herndon brain injury lawyer Doug Landau welcomes this new human brain research initiative. Just as the American Medical Association’s “Decade of the Brain” helped…
Continue readingIn today’s economy, many of the jobs traditionally considered perfect for a student on summer break will be hard to find, and even harder to get. College and high school students cannot afford to wait until the days before summer to start looking for that summer job. Parents, urge your children to start the summer…
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