In 2005, after years of training, competing and waiting, I was able to represent the United States and compete in Triathlon at the Maccabiah Games in Israel. The Olympic Distance race consisted of a mile swim, 25 mile bike ride through the city and then a 6.2 mile race over the hills and dunes of…
Continue readingThe plaintiff, a 12-year-old boy, was riding his bicycle on December 27, 2006, when he was struck at the intersection of Old Nuckols Road and Nuckols Road in Henrico County by a minivan. The plaintiff was initially hospitalized at VCU Medical Center and was later transferred to Children’s Hospital in Norfolk for rehabilitation. As a…
Continue readingThe Reston Masters Swim Team is holding their annual 1 and 2 mile lake swim races and open water clinic May 23-24, 2009. All events will take place at Lake Audubon in Reston, Virginia, the same body of water where the sold-out Reston Triathlon is contested. The Reston Masters have hosted the USMS National Open…
Continue readingBy racing at the USAT “National Duathlon Festival” and teaching new trial judges, Northern Virginia injury lawyer Doug Landau is able to visit Richmond, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania car crash, dog bite, job accident and disabled clients close to home. This year’s New Judge Orientation program has the Herndon Reston brain injury and disability lawyer scheduled to…
Continue readingThe Manassas Park Festival of Races – 5K, 10K, 10 Miler & kids fun run presented an opportunity for Triathlon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau to test his “duathlon legs” before next month’s USAT National Duathlon Championship and World Championship qualifier. Running after cycling, when the leg muscles are fatigued, presents challenged unique to the multisport…
Continue readingWhile in New York and New Jersey last week helping a dog attack victim who was recently attacked while out jogging, Sports Injury Lawyer Doug Landau was struck by how many deposition questions centered upon the client’s PRE-accident interaction with dogs. At depositions (or “Examinations Before Trial” or “EBTs” in New York), insurance defense counsel…
Continue reading“Any time an injured athlete can make use of the “down time” to work on weaknesses; improve their minds, or expand their opportunities, it is a good thing,” according to Herndon and Reston Virginia Sports Injury Lawyer Doug Landau. “This is so because no matter how good a lawyer I may be, I can never…
Continue readingWhile in Washington, D.C. for a Deposition, Triathlon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau managed to test his early season speed at the DCRRC monthly “Tidal Basin 3k.” This was the 422nd running of this low-key event in our Nation’s Capitol. With the gorgeous spring weather and buds just starting to form on the cherry trees, the…
Continue readingLuckily, Doug Landau races for fun and to raise money for charities. As an amateur athlete, the “Triathlon Trial Lawyer” has on several occasions won prize money, which he has donated to charities, teams and schools. The Herndon and Reston Virginia injury and Social Security Disability lawyer has accumulated an impressive t-shirt collection as the…
Continue readingOne positive aspect of representing competitive and recreational athletes is that they tend to heal from traumatic injury quickly and completely. When Virginia Sports Injury Lawyer Doug Landau is asked “Why are athletes’ flesh wounds, like dog bites, not stitched up right away ?” he notes that sports medicine doctors are aware that their patients…
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