Who could have missed the recent inspirational story about the quadruple-amputee, 26-year-old war veteran Brendan Marrocco, who underwent successful double arm transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore? Marrocco was the first military veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to have survived the loss of four limbs. Although it is unlikely that…
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Last year the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) decided to stop making known in advance the identity of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) assigned to hear a case. Read about why Herndon Virginia Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) lawyer Doug Landau called the move “Cowardice in Court”. In welcome news for anyone awaiting a hearing, it…
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Everywhere you turn, things are going paperless. Now the Treasury Department is joining in. The millions of people still receiving their benefits checks in the mail have until March 1 to sign up for electronic delivery. “It makes sense,” says Herndon Social Security lawyer Doug Landau. “It costs 92 cents more to issue a paper…
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Many lawyers view Continuing Legal Education (CLE) as a nuisance — something they MUST do. And in fact, most lawyers only get the minimum number of CLE hours required by their state. Furthermore, most law firms do not pay for staff to attend Legal Education seminars online, and very few allow paralegals to go in…
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In another report of a swimming pool grate trapping a child, the Chicago Tribune reported that a lawsuit filed was filed by a father on behalf of a child that alleges Union City’s negligence caused his son to become trapped by a swimming pool grate at the bottom of the city swimming pool. As a…
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