Last week, half a dozen young students from Forest Grove Elementary School in Sterling, Virginia learned how to start, stop, give hand signals and look for traffic on their bicycles. Mark Pankau, former P.E. teacher at Guilford Elementary School, and Janice Jennings of Loudoun County Public Schools’ Safe Routes to School held a virtual bike…
With no racing, there are no race reports. Attorney Doug Landau, whose office went remote in March, saw the multisports season likewise go “remote.” All the Kinetic Multisports races, National Championships and ITU World Championships that Landau was to compete in were cancelled due to the pandemic. In order to “participate” and support the multisport…
A bicycle rider was struck by a car while crossing Beamer Way in Blacksburg, Virginia. This recent case occurred near a car crash case attorney Doug Landau of Abrams Landau, Ltd. represented on the Virginia Tech campus. In this March 2020 case, the defendant driver claimed a bike rider’s negligence contributed to an accident in…
A federal government security officer was injured while on a bicycle training ride near his home. The officer’s lawyer, Doug Landau of the Herndon law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd., noted that, “Statistics suggest that most car crashes happen within 10 miles of your home, since that’s where most of your driving occurs.” The federal biker…
Concierge coaching, where coaches, instead of supporting clients from the sidelines, join them at the starting line as “pacers for hire,” are being seen at big sporting events like the New York City Marathon, Ironman triathlon qualifiers, and bicycle races like Farm to Fondo. The question becomes whether or not this bespoke training is cheating…
With the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommending in November that all 50 states, in addition to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, require every single bicycle rider to wear a helmet, the Abrams Landau bike injury law team believe that this should become the uniform law throughout the country. Currently, we have boxes…
Where a recreational tour participant is injured or killed during a charity bicycle ride, the surviving spouse or family members can bring what is called a “wrongful death case.” In a trial report sent to attorney Doug Landau of the Herndon injury law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd., by one of his Georgia Bar Association friends,…
Many people all over the world have found themselves at home significantly more than they’re used to due to having to quarantine or isolate and social distance in response to varying degrees of COVID-19 instigated stay-at-home orders. The Herndon, Virginia law firm Abrams Landau has physically closed its office in response. Fortunately, we are prepared…
First, races that attorney Doug Landau had signed up for for the 2020 season are being postponed. Then, races in the Virginia Maryland Triathlon Series, or Kinetic Multisports, that he helps to sponsor, were canceled through Memorial Day. Now, events are being canceled left and right with no clear return to competition date. Set for…
Anyone who has spent more than a few minute with trial lawyer Doug Landau knows that he is constantly on the move. This triathlete lawyer has long used “active recovery” after competitions, as well as other modalities, to speed up the healing process. Injured athletes are realizing that staying active is a crucial part of…