The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard. The CPSC’s work to…
Continue readingThe Hammerdown Cross Fit team put “the hammer down” on the competition at the Town of Herndon Turkey Trot Cross Country running race. This training group, lead by Todd Katz, turned out in force at yesterday’s Annual Herndon Turkey Trot (see yesterday’s post with photo of team member Cindi Revesman). The Hammer Down CrossFit group…
Continue readingArticles in the local Northern Virginia and Fairfax County newspapers about students in the Herndon Middle School who take used and discarded bicycles and repair them so that local children can discover the joys of getting around on 2 wheels caught my attention. About 20 Herndon Middle School students stay after school once a week…
Continue reading“Congratulations DOUG LANDAU on finishing the 2009 HCA VA 8k. There were 312 finishers in your age group, 4,564 registrants and 3542 total finishers. Your overall finish place was 86, your age group finish place was 3 and your gender finish place was 76. Your chip time was 00:33:20 and your pace was 06:12 per…
Continue readingClients have come and seen me in court, near Herndon, Oak Hill and Fairfax County, and some have seen me “in action” in Richmond, yet there is more to these “road trips” than trying cases for injured and disabled clients and their families in the courts. For example, in my latest trip to the Virginia…
Continue readingA woman who biked, hiked and climbed in China, Europe and throughout the United States sued IKEA after 350 pounds of countertops fell and crushed her pelvis. Doug Landau reports that this 36-year-old Arlington woman’s case was heard nearly 3 years after she was injured. The hiker, biker and climber has had a metal plates…
Continue readingIn one case we handled in the Tidewater area, friends of mine were staying in a tourist hotel. On vacation near where I have participated in several “flat course” races, my 3 friends checked into two rooms before checking the rooms out beforehand. Because of the aging light and heat fixtures, one of my friends…
Continue readingIn 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 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 readingThe College of William & Mary indoor tennis stadium was the site of the 2009 VTLA Tennis Tournament, sponsored by ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. Herndon Reston area injury and disability lawyer Doug Landau puts on this fund raiser each year and makes sure that everyone who participates gets a useful prize and lots of “court time.”…
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