If you were a passenger in a one car accident, then the accident was not your fault. It was your driver’s. Your driver owes you the same duty of care that your driver owes to everybody else on the road. Therefore, if you are injured and your driver is at fault, and in a one […]
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While I am well aware that the suspension of Tom Brady and the whole deflategate controversy has been a subject of a great deal of discussion in these parts for the past half year, I have done my best not to immerse myself in the minutiae of the case. Part of this is because I
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I received this scam in my email this evening. I am sharing this as a warning to those of you who receive it. I thought that it was a nice tough running a scam about “the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa”. There is a lot wrong with this email (such as I
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I plan to blog more on the subject of distracted driving, because I see it becoming an ever larger issue. Most of my auto accident cases now involve people who are getting slammed into while stopped in places they should obviously be stopped (red lights, stop signs, traffic jams). The only possible explanation would appear to
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The September 2015 Visa Bulletin has been released. The nice thing is that F2A immigrant visas, which is to say green cards for husbands, wives, spouses and unmarried children under 21 of Lawful Permanent Residents, is “only” backed up a year and a half. Such people who will be getting their visas in September had immigration petitions
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I recently watched an interesting webinar on security clearances and bankruptcy. I have had a number of clients over the years that have security clearances. Generally speaking, these clients are civilians who work for defense contractors such as Raytheon. Naturally, they are concerned about of the impact of filing bankruptcy upon their security clearance. My
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I originally wrote this blog last December, but something happened today that made me want to add this story and re-post it. A client hired me to do a chapter 7 today. She first came to see me a year or two ago, but was so appalled by the concept of bankruptcy that she decided
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A lawyer I know who also does a lot of immigration work came to visit me today. He wanted to ask me if I knew of a forms preparer whose fraud and scams had gotten a client of his in trouble. I stopped him in the middle of his story, because that same preparer had
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One of the interesting changes in bankruptcy practice since the “Great Recession” is that bankruptcy clients now seem to find lawyers mostly by word of mouth. After the Dot-Com bubble burst, bankruptcy really began to lose its stigma. Even then, a large number of people who had been very successful found themselves filing for bankruptcy
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