The Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) Victims’ Services Unit and the Fairfax County Law Enforcement Foundation together are hosting the first ever 5K Walk dedicated to raising awareness for crime victims in Fairfax County, and honoring the 2013 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (April 21-27). The walk, which will take place on Sunday, April 21 at…
Continue readingThe Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a recall of approximately 1,000 cargo bikes manufactured by Yuba Bicycles. The 26-inch bicycles have steel frames, aluminum fenders on the front and rear wheels, and a wood utility deck mounted on the rear cargo rack. The bikes come in orange, black or blue. The word “Mundo”…
Continue readingHerndon attorney Doug Landau, of the firm Abrams Landau, Ltd., will be running in the Fairfax Law Foundation’s Run for Justice 5K on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. at Fairfax Corner in Fairfax. Never one to pass up the opportunity to put on a costume, Doug will continue his long-standing support of the…
Continue readingThe helmet camera video of a cyclist being run off the road by a red truck driver was viewed with anger and apprehension by many of us in the DC Metro area cycling community. I had written about this incident a year and a half ago and only now is the perpetrator being brought to…
Continue readingU.S. Divers has recalled a youth snorkeling mask that was sold exclusively at Costco as a part of a set, along with a snorkel and fins. The Martinique LX Jr. Youth Snorkeling Mask Sets can pose a laceration danger when notches in the tempered glass lens on the mask can break under certain water pressure. If you…
Continue readingLance Armstrong is really taking heat for “doping”, a fact he admitted in a January interview with Oprah. Soon after that interview, we posted here about how readers of his book are asking for their money back in a class action suit filed against Armstrong and his publisher. Well, Armstrong’s list of legal battles has…
Continue readingThe team at Abrams Landau, Ltd. congratulates lawyer and athlete Doug Landau for being selected as a 2013 Virginia SuperLawyer. Doug has been honored with this recognition every year since 2006! When an athlete is injured, often the help of an attorney is needed. Our athlete clients find great comfort in hiring a lawyer who…
Continue reading“When the the US National Championships are in your backyard, you’ve got to give it a try,” says Triathlon Trial Lawyer Doug Landau. Even though he ended his run training in September after the Reston Triathlon (and a flare up of plantar fascitis), and stopped running altogether after finishing as runner-up in the Virginia Triathlon…
Continue readingBikers traveling through Herndon will finally be able to stop at a bike shop within sight of the W&OD Trail. With the Reston Bike Club meeting in the Herndon Municipal parking lot for group rides, the Sport & Health Supersprint Triathlon races finish at the caboose and cyclists coming to “Friday Night Live” and other…
Continue reading“What a great pun ! ” notes Loudoun lawyer Doug Landau. Known as a “punster” and a soccer fan, coach and player, lawyer Landau is excited that Loudoun County may have its own professional soccer club. The Triathlon Trial Lawyer’s Major League Soccer (MLS) tryout at George Mason University when the league was first formed…
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