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Tampa DUI Firm Urges Drivers to Not Drink and Drive This Holiday Season

Tampa, FL (PRWEB) December 01, 2011

When the holidays come around there is plenty to gather and celebrate about. The holiday season often has people on the road who are driving for vacations, shopping or coming to and from holiday parties. While these festivities can lead to many enjoying family and friends, it can sometimes get out of hand – and can sometimes lead to inebriated drivers on the road.

At the Tampa, Florida DUI law firm of Thomas and Paulk, they strongly believe that the one way to for sure avoid a DUI is simple – don’t drink and drive. While this could be the obvious choice, the truth is that every year, there are those who choose to ignore it and get behind the wheel while intoxicated. This can have tragic consequences and can lead to property damage, injury and even death.

“People often ask us how to avoid a DUI charge,” said Attorney Jeffrey Paulk. “There is only one correct answer to that question and it never changes: Don’t drink and drive”

Law enforcement officers are often on the road during this time trying to catch inebriated drivers. The Tampa Police Department, the Florida Highway Patrol and even the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Officer all will be patrolling the local runways and hosting sobriety checkpoints in an effort to slow down the effects of drunk driving. This includes saturated patrols and even the presence of roadblocks.

Attorney Jeffery Paulk said, “If you are found to be under the influence while driving you can be sure that you will be arrested. Many people are lucky to have been stopped and arrested in these patrols, because if they had not been stopped there may have been a far more tragic result.”

That being said, the actions of these police officers can sometimes be overzealous. In some cases, you may find yourself facing drunk driving charges even if you were not impaired or even if you had not had anything to drink at all. Fatigue can sometimes mimic the same symptoms of being drunk; while driving while tired isn’t desirable, it isn’t a criminal offense and you shouldn’t pay the penalties. When this is paired with faulty DUI testing or biased officers, the results can be undesirable to say the least.

While the firm does not hope that you have to give them a call, if you have been criminally charged, you should not hesitate to contact a Tampa DUI attorney from their legal team. They recognize that these cases are stressful and complex and they are prepared to help you fight for your fair financial compensation. To learn more about how they can help, do not hesitate to give them a call to schedule your initial case evaluation at (800) 239-3195. Have a safe holiday season.

Thomas and Paulk, P.A. represents clients throughout Tampa, Florida who have found themselves charged with crimes such as driving under the influences. Over the years, they have established themselves as one of the area’s premier defense firms and have worked hard to represent their clients with reliable legal assistance. They are available 24 / 7 so if you have been criminally charged, it is in your best interests to give them a call today. The sooner that you get a Tampa DUI lawyer from their legal team involved, the sooner that they will be able to help build a watertight defense for your case. To discuss your case in more detail, do not hesitate to contact their firm at (800) 239-3195.

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Four Attorneys of Demorest Law Firm, PLLC Named “Super Lawyers” for 2011

Royal Oak, MI (PRWEB) November 16, 2011

The selection of “Super Lawyers” is based on a survey of thousands of fellow lawyers in the state of Michigan. Michigan Super Lawyers identifies the top 5 percent of attorneys in the state, as chosen by their peers and through independent research.

Mark Demorest was named as a Super Lawyer for business law, and has been for every year since 2007.

Dave Nykanen has been selected as a Super Lawyer for real estate law again. He has been selected each year since 2008.

John Holmquist has been named a Super Lawyer for labor and employment law once again. He has received this honor every year since 2006.

Melissa Demorest was named as a “Rising Star” in the area of business law for the second consecutive year. This category is for lawyers who have been practicing less than ten years. No more than 2.5% of the lawyers in a state may be named to the Rising Stars list.

About Demorest Law Firm

Clients choose Demorest Law Firm, PLLC because of its reputation for developing creative, effective solutions to their legal problems. With a strong emphasis on developing long-term relationships with clients, the firm takes a practical approach to the practice of law, helping its business and individual clients establish and build their businesses, avoid pitfalls and resolve any disputes that may arise.

Their attorneys pride themselves on giving each client the close, personal attention necessary to resolve problems creatively and efficiently, while still maintaining the highest level of skill and expertise.

Serving as general counsel to small and medium-sized businesses, and helping larger companies and other law firms with specific projects, Demorest Law Firm, PLLC, provides a full range of legal services for businesses. They have particular expertise in the areas of business law, litigation, employment law, real estate matters, tax planning, tax disputes, estate planning, probate matters, construction law, condemnation, inverse condemnation and sports law.

They strive to understand each client’s business goals and objectives, allowing them to provide more efficient and effective legal solutions to their clients. They know that using the same lawyer’s services again and again is the greatest compliment a client can give a lawyer, and they are proud to have represented many of their business clients for ten or fifteen years or more.

Demorest Law Firm, PLLC is a member of the International Society of Primerus Law Firms.

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New York Civil Rights Violation Lawyer from The Perecman Firm Comments on Alleged Racial Discrimination in Bronx Apartment Rentals

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 12, 2011

A Bronx landlord of a Riverdale building is being sued by the Justice Department for race discrimination, a civil rights violation in New York.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara filed the civil rights violation lawsuit (Case # 11-06713) against the landlord, management company and superintendent for allegedly discriminating against African-Americans seeking apartments. The lawsuit claims they offered apartments to whites but not to African-Americans.

The race discrimination lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court.

According to the civil rights violation complaint, Loventhal Silver Riverdale LLC, Goodman Management Co. and superintendent Jesus Velasco had “engaged in conduct constituting illegal discrimination” since at least April of 2009.

“There are a number of reasons a landlord can legitimately reject a tenant, including a bad credit report or an unstable employment history. However, landlords can’t treat tenants or potential tenants differently because of a personal characteristic or feature like race or disability,” said New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman, founder of The Perecman Firm, one of New York’s civil rights violation law firms.

As New York civil rights violation lawyers understand, the federal Fair Housing Act makes it illegal for a landlord to refuse an apartment or house rental application based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability and familial status.

According to the New York Daily News, Loventhal, Goodman and Velasco were caught after African-American and white “testers” visited the building, posing as would-be renters.

As reported by the New York Daily News, Velasco refused to give a black tester a rental application on April 8, 2009, but a short while later provided a white tester with an application, according to the New York race discrimination lawsuit.

On May 8 and Nov. 18, 2009, Velasco steered away African-American testers while offering apartments to white testers at discounts, as reported by the New York Daily News.

“This civil rights violation lawsuit should strongly remind other landlords that they will be held accountable if they engage in or enable others to engage in discrimination against prospective tenants in New York,” civil rights violation lawyer Perecman said.

If a person suspects that he or she has been treated unfairly because of his or her race, they should contact an experienced New York civil rights violation lawyer. Lawyers at The Perecman Firm are knowledgeable of New York state, New York City and federal legislation that protects people of all races, ethnicities, and gender.

About David Perecman and The Perecman Firm, PLLC:

For the past 30 years, the New York civil rights violation lawyers at The Perecman Firm, PLLC have handled all types of civil rights violation cases including ethnic discrimination, age discrimination, gender discrimination and race discrimination. David Perecman, founder of the Firm, is a Board Director and the past Secretary and Treasurer of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) and a chair of its Labor Law Committee. Mr. Perecman’s achievements have brought him recognition as an Honoree in the National Law Journal’s Hall of Fame, in New York Magazine’s “The Best Lawyers in America” and The New York Times Magazine “New York Super Lawyers, Metro Edition” for the years 2007-2010.

The Firm has recovered millions of dollars for its clients. Among the more recent victories, Mr. Perecman won a $ 15 million verdict** for a construction accident, a $ 5.35 million dollar verdict*** for an automobile accident, and a $ 40 million dollar structured settlement for medical malpractice****.

**later settled while on appeal for $ 7.940 million    

*** later settled for $ 3.5 million

**** total potential payout

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Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio Ranked U.S. News-Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firm”

Denver, CO (Vocus) September 29, 2010

Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio, P.C. has been ranked a “Best Law Firm” 2010 by U.S. News-Best Lawyers® for their work in gaming law.

Additionally, Richard Nathan, who heads the firm’s gaming law practice, was named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2011. Nathan’s practice helps manufacturer/distributors, casino operators and individuals with regulatory compliance and licensing nationally and internationally.

U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers® inaugural rankings report included 30,322 rankings of 8,782 law firms in 81 practice areas.

“By combining hard data with peer reviews, and client assessments, we believe we are providing the most thorough, accurate, and helpful rankings of law firms ever developed,” said President of Best Lawyers®, Steven Naifeh.

To compile the U.S. News-Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” rankings a national survey was distributed to firm clients and leading lawyers asking who they considered best in their practice area. Then survey responses were combined with 3.1 million evaluations of individual lawyers in the most recent Best Lawyers® survey of leading lawyers.

U.S. News-Best Lawyers® received 9,514 survey responses from clients including Fortune 100 and Fortune 1,000 companies who gave 194,370 firm practice-area evaluations; 6,190 clients provided 11,181 comments about law firms practice areas and individual lawyers and 8,842 lawyers provide 594,012 firm practice area evaluations.

Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio, P.C. was founded in 1976. The firm has 30 lawyers serving clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region and is engaged in a comprehensive legal practice heavily based in litigation, commercial transactions, real estate, gaming, franchise and family law.

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Legal Marketing Companies form Partnership to Enhance Law Firm Marketing Plans

Tampa, FL (PRWEB) October 22, 2008

As more lawyers turn to the internet as a place to safely invest their marketing dollars, they are often met with a handful of companies willing to take their money but not offer a return. It is the hope of two successful law firm marketing companies that together, they can offer effective legal marketing services to lawyers across the country.

It was Lawyers Guide, Inc., that first approached SEOLawFirm.com (of Adviatech Corp.) about cross marketing one another’s services. Based out of Harvard Illinois, LawyersGuide.com is a lawyer directory which simplifies the process of finding a lawyer all across the country. Lawyers Guide, Inc. President, Jim Militello, commented that “We have seen a significant increase in consumers going to LawyersGuide.com to find a lawyer, and a demand from lawyers looking for an alternative way to get found on the internet.”

The benefit that SEOLawFirm.com saw in LawyersGuide.com’s service was something else.

As a seasoned search engine optimization company, Tampa Florida based Adviatech Corp., clearly understands the processes involved in online marketing. One of the most important aspects is link building. When it comes to building niche law firm links for their client’s serviced under SEOLawFirm.com, it is difficult to find quality pageranking directories with legal appeal.

Partnering with LawyersGuide.com gives Adviatech access to a link source that understands search engine optimization. The technology behind LawyersGuide.com offers (on premium plans) lawyers the opportunity to link their keyphrases to their web site address thus increasing relevance of their web site for that particular keyphrase.

Adviatech’s SEOLawFirm.com is their fastest growing subsidiary taking responsibility for nearly 60% of this years new account growth. The core services offered under the SEOLawFirm.com brand include online law firm marketing, search engine optimization, lawyer web hosting, and innovative web design services. The companies approach to law firm web design for attorneys is different than most niche legal web design companies.

Adviatech Vice President, Jason Bland, recently commented, “The value of our service to our clients goes back to what we can bring together. We have a talented, creative design team that understands a lawyer’s web site needs to be unique. We try to avoid pillars, bookshelves, scales of justice, and gavels. Also, with the same company designing a lawyer’s web site and optimizing it, our clients can be assured that the two services will compliment one another. Now with the partnership with LawyersGuide.com, we can offer a highly relevant link to our client’s web sites.”

SEOLawFirm.com is promoting the featured lawyer directory listing services for LawyersGuide.com to their internal customer base and their weekly newsletter, Law Firm Marketing Weekly. LawyersGuide.com is now offering web design and search engine optimization services through SEOLawFirm.com as an additional marketing solution to their listed members.

To learn more visit LawyersGuide.com or SEOLawFirm.com.

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Best Lawyers To Honor Peter B. Webster Of Law Firm Verrill Dana As One Of The Preeminent Lawyers In The United States

Portland, ME (PRWEB) April 2, 2009

Law Firm Verrill Dana is pleased to announce that Best Lawyers, one of the country’s most respected lawyer-rating directories, will honor the extraordinary accomplishments of Peter B. Webster during its 25th Anniversary Event in Atlanta, Georgia on April 23-25, 2009. The event will celebrate the distinguished careers of the 1,397 lawyers who have been listed in the publication since it began rating lawyers in 1983.

“We are so pleased to honor Peter B. Webster as one of the lawyers who have been with us from the start,” says Steven Naifeh, President and founder of Best Lawyers.

Peter B. Webster is the firm’s Senior Partner Emeritus and a member of the Business Law Group. His practice has focused primarily in the areas of corporate, business, banking and educational law. He served as College Counsel for Bowdoin College for four decades and has advised numerous businesses, including publicly-held corporations and not-for-profit corporations throughout the State of Maine. Peter is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Cornell Law School.

“Peter Webster has been a leading practitioner in his field and has provided exemplary service to his clients and to Verrill Dana for over 40 years” says Keith C. Jones, Managing Partner of Verrill Dana. “We are glad to join Best Lawyers in recognizing Peter’s achievements.”

About Verrill Dana:

Verrill Dana, LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 100 attorneys conducting a nationwide practice from offices in Portland, and Augusta, Maine; Boston; Hartford; and Washington, D.C.

About Best Lawyers:

Best Lawyers, which published its first directory in 1983, is the oldest lawyer-rating publication in the U.S. The company compiles its listings of outstanding attorneys through exhaustive peer-review surveys. Every year, thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers and Best Lawyers tabulates more than 2.5 million votes. Its annual publication, The Best Lawyers in America, which continues to be the only advertisement-free referral guide to the legal profession, now includes 36,126 attorneys in 78 specialties, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Attorney at Denver Family Law Firm Selected for Prestigious Award

Harris Law Firm Partner Michael Cheroutes Jr.

(Vocus/PRWEB) April 01, 2011

The Harris Law Firm Partner Michael Cheroutes Jr., was recently selected as a Rising Star by Colorado Super Lawyers.

Super Lawyers Selection Process

In selecting attorneys for Super Lawyers, Law & Politics employs a rigorous, multiphase process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis. The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel. The Super Lawyers selection process involves three basic steps: creation of the candidate pool; evaluation of candidates by the research department; and peer evaluation by practice area.

Publication

The final published list represents no more than 5 percent of the lawyers in the state. The lists are published annually in state and regional editions of Super Lawyers magazines and in inserts and special advertising sections in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers. All attorneys selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers, regardless of year, can be found on superlawyers.com.

The Rising Stars Selection Process

The selection process for Rising Stars is the same as the Super Lawyers selection process except that: 1) to be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars, a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger or in practice for ten years or less; 2) Candidates for Rising Stars do not go through step three above—peer evaluation by practice area. While up to five percent of the lawyers in the state are named to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.

Congratuations to Mike Cheroutes, Jr. Our Rising Star!

About the Harris Law Firm

Established in 1993, The Harris Law Firm is Denver’s largest family law firm and employs a team of 19 skilled attorneys. In addition to divorce and child custody and support issues in Colorado, The Harris Law Firm also handles issues regarding maintenance, paternity, grandparents’ rights, and step-parent adoptions.

For more information on The Harris Law Firm, including articles written by our family law attorneys, please visit our Web site.

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