If you’re a bicyclist living in Fairfax County, Virginia, be sure to check out the Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling’s (FABB) April meeting! It’ll feature a Bike Advocacy 101 mini-course introducing basic tools and strategies to help make Fairfax County more bike-friendly. They’ll also discuss plans for Bike to Work Day and National Bike Month coming…
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Just 10 days after coughing up blood and fighting pneumonia, Doug Landau was able to rest enough to compete against the best multisport athletes in the US and Canada at the USAT Sprint DUathlon National Championships in Greenville, South Carolina. Lawyer Landau was “breathing like a wounded water buffalo” from the start, and with an…
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Some 1300 of the very best multi-sport athletes from 49 states went to South Carolina for the 2018 USAT DUathlon National Championships. These Age Group “run-bike-run” races are not only the national championships, but also serve as the qualifiers for the 2019 ITU World Championships in Ponte Vedra, Spain. Since Doug Landau qualified for TeamUSA,…
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During the American Association for Justice (AAJ) 2018 winter convention in Maui, Hawaii last month, attorney Doug Landau gave a Trial Advocacy presentation for lawyers on proving their injury cases with “invisible witnesses,” or electronic tracking devices such as FitBits. In addition, he attended several Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs and strategy sessions, and…
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Things were “hopping” at the Green Lizard St. Patricks Weekend. Green Lizard Cycling is a locally owned, family business that opened in the old Nachman’s dry goods store building across from the W&OD trail and the Herndon Depot in March 2013. Their vision for the store and bicycling was simple: treat everyone with respect, treat…
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In his first race back after a six-month hiatus, attorney Doug Landau took part in the Potomac River Running Lucky Leprechaun 5K at the Reston Town Center on St. Patrick’s Day. He was slightly apprehensive because he had not raced since struggling with injuries last fall. In 2017, lawyer Landau was seen hobbling across several…
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One of the students we met at Herndon Middle School’s after school Bike Shop for our Lids on Kids brain injury prevention and helmet giveaway program unexpectedly stopped by the Abrams Landau law office the other day! Attorney Doug Landau had run into Lucas a few months ago at Herndon’s Green Lizard Cycling Bike Shop and…
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In a recent Virginia personal injury case where a 67-year-old cyclist was knocked off his bike by a big dog, a settlement of nearly half a million dollars was reached at mediation with a retired judge after the lawsuit was filed and pre-trial discovery undertaken. The cyclist injured both shoulders and sustained a torn rotator…
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” You can’t aspire to be what you can’t see,” said the coach of the University of North Dakota women’s ice hockey coach in recent New York Times article on the ending of the school’s sports program. The January 12th piece discussed the budgetary reasons why the team was axed, despite the local female college…
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During the winter months it is important to let the body recover, heal, and then build a strong base for the next competitive season. Even if Doug Landau were not injured, he would be using the winter months to work on his weaknesses, recuperate from a tough competitive season, and then build an adequate foundation for the…
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