Posts tagged justice

• Washington Area Bicyclist Attorneys need to "walk the walk"

  Doug Landau | November 02, 2011 6:18 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Unbelievable. I was sent information about a local lawyer who is supposedly a plaintiff's personal injury trial lawyer and a Washington DC area bicycle accident victims' advocate. Yet, when I did...

• FELA "Rogers" Case Upheld By US Supreme Court: Injured Railroad Worker Wins 5-4 Decision By Ginsburg

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | June 23, 2011 3:00 PM | 1 CommentNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  In a major defeat for CSX and other railroad companies that have long attempted to curtail rail employees' protections under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, or FELA, the U.S. Supreme Court...

• ABRAMS LANDAU sponsoring Equal Justice America law student

  Doug Landau | June 06, 2011 10:02 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Discrimination
  

  Equal Justice America is an independent non-profit corporation established in 1993. EJA has become a national leader in providing opportunities for law students to work with organizations that...

• Tort "Reform": Why It Is Bad for America

  Greg Webb | March 28, 2011 8:00 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A few years ago, in the late 1990s, I overheard one Washington lawyer in a restaurant talking about tort reform in a very distressed tone. He didn’t understand why the political party he...

• Questions for Justice Thomas

  Doug Landau | March 07, 2011 8:29 PM | 1 CommentFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Discrimination
  

  Justice Thomas has gone 5 years without asking a single question from the bench of the United States Supreme Court (!) according to recent NPR news reports. In my prior post, I wrote about a great...

• Thurgood Marshall spoke for the powerless and questioned bad law

  Doug Landau | March 07, 2011 8:25 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Discrimination
  

  At a critical time in our nation's history, attorney Thurgood Marshall spoke for those with no voice, the disenfranchised and the powerless. In Brown vs. Board of Education, he helped end...

• Victims Wait for Reimbursement While Lawyer's Firm Bills BP Oil $10 Million

  Doug Landau | February 09, 2011 6:05 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Justice delayed is justice denied. That quote is on our Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, home of the Rocket Docket. Because we are used to relatively short waiting in times to get our day...

• Lawyer Landau on the Road - At a Court or CLE near you !

  Doug Landau | February 04, 2011 10:53 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Publishing my schedule allows clients to meet with me closer to home and to actually see us in action. While many clients and their families find coming to the handicap accessible friendly, not...

• Why is it important if my lawyer goes to CLE courses ?

  Doug Landau | February 04, 2011 10:17 PM | 2 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Always Look to Sharpen Your Skills You don’t just automatically become a quality lawyer. In order to become a dependable and trusted lawyer you need to put in the time and effort to hone your...

• Want to see the U.S. Supreme Court "in action" ?

  Doug Landau | January 27, 2011 4:10 PM | 1 CommentFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Then you will have to go to Washington, D.C., and wait in line to get a seat to oral argument. My father Norman J. Landau took me to see the high court hear oral argument in an Environmental Law...