Convicted felons cannot legally own handguns, but four out of five criminal convictions in the United States are for misdemeanors and a misdemeanor conviction, until recently, had no impact on the right to own or use a handgun. Today anyone who has ever been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence can no longer […]
Archives for July 2019
Playing It Safe: A Fourth Nationwide Safety Survey of Public Playgrounds By Public Interest Research Group
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A fourth nationwide investigation of public playgrounds by the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG) and Consumer Federation of America (CFA) found that a majority of American playgrounds pose hidden threats to our nation’s youngsters. Too many children are getting hurt and killed on our playgrounds. Each year, nearly 150,000 are injured seriously enough […]
Brain Injuries: Proving a Lifetime Disability
If you have suffered a brain injury, please contact us now. Delays can harm your case. Head injuries bring more than 400,000 people to hospitals every year. Approximately three-quarters are diagnosed as having suffered a mild to moderate injury – injuries that can be subtle, persistent, and potentially long term.Demographically, three quarters of the survivors […]
Understanding the Legal Fee Agreement: Consumers’ Rights in the Legal Marketplace
Finding the “right lawyer” to represent you is a challenging process described in this companion to the article, “How to Hire the ‘Right Lawyer: Consumers’ Rights in the Legal Marketplace.” Once you have found the “right lawyer,” you will want a written fee agreement explaining what you want the lawyer to do, what the lawyer […]
How to Hire the “Right Lawyer”
The United States is both the most successful economy and the most complicated legal society in the history of the world. Open any newspaper on any day and more than half of all the news concerns the law. Full time legislatures, plus Congress and numerous federal agencies, produce volumes of rules. In short, there are […]