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  • White House signals Biden may address filibuster reform soon

    White House signals Biden may address filibuster reform soon

    WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – The White House on Friday offered a strong signal that it is preparing to seek changes soon to a long-standing Senate tradition that has allowed Republicans to block voting rights legislation and other major Democratic initiatives.

    Democratic President Joe Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, has previously opposed any significant overhaul of a Senate rule known as the filibuster, which requires 60 of the 100 senators to agree on most legislation. read more

    His opposition has angered Democrats and activists who say an arcane rule should not stand in the way of important issues such as voting rights and immigration.

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    “I expect you’ll hear more from the president about it in the coming weeks,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday about the filibuster. Asked what more he would want to address with filibuster reform beyond voting rights, Psaki said to “stay tuned.”

    During a televised town hall event on Thursday, Biden said the Senate should “fundamentally alter” the filibuster process, but did not offer specifics on how.

    The White House’s potential shift on the issue comes after the latest successful effort by Republicans to block Democratic legislation aimed at thwarting restrictive new voting laws enacted in Republican-led states. On Wednesday, Republicans used the filibuster to block beginning a debate on the measure.

    When Republicans control the White House and the Senate, Democrats have used the filibuster as well.

    Psaki suggested Biden had lost patience with Republican resistance to Democrats’ ideas on voting rights, saying the president is “frustrated” and “disappointed.”

    “When a hand has been extended by Democrats to work together to protect the fundamental right, Republicans have not only recoiled, they have blocked the … ability to make any semblance of progress,” Psaki said.

    While Democrats are united on voting rights, they are not unified in whether to overhaul the filibuster. U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat from West Virginia, has publicly opposed eliminating the filibuster, even for specific issues.

    With a 50-50 split in the Senate, Democrats would need all of its members to support changes.

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    Reporting by Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw; additional reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Bill Berkrot

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  • Ex-Giuliani associate Parnas found guilty of violating U.S. campaign finance law

    Ex-Giuliani associate Parnas found guilty of violating U.S. campaign finance law

    NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was found guilty on Friday of violating U.S. campaign finance laws during the 2018 elections.

    Parnas, a Ukraine-born American businessman, and his former associate Igor Fruman had been accused of soliciting funds from Russian businessman Andrey Muraviev to donate to candidates in states where the group was seeking licenses to operate cannabis businesses in 2018.

    Parnas also concealed that he and Fruman, who pleaded guilty in September, were the true source of a donation to a group supporting Republican then-President Trump, prosecutors said. Giuliani’s attorney has said the Parnas case is separate from a probe into whether violated lobbying laws while representing Trump.

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    Giuliani, a U.S. prosecutor in the 1980s before he was elected New York’s mayor in 1994, has not been charged with any crimes and denies wrongdoing.

    Parnas was found guilty on all six counts of federal election law violations that he faced, which included illegally helping a foreigner contribute to a U.S. election campaign, making contributions in the names of others, and lying to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).

    Andrey Kukushkin, a Muraviev associate and California resident who was tried alongside Parnas, was found guilty on Friday of two counts of campaign finance violations. Kukushkin is also a Ukraine native.

    The trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan has drawn attention because of the role Parnas and Belarus-born U.S. citizen Fruman played in helping Giuliani, who was Trump’s personal attorney while he held office, to investigate Democrat Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign. Biden won the election, denying Trump a second term.

    Parnas, dressed in a blue suit, stared straight at the jury as the verdict was read. Kukushkin, wearing a grey sweater, shook his head after he was pronounced guilty on the second count.

    “I’ve never hid from nobody,” Parnas said as he left court wearing a black “Combat COVID” mask. “I’ve always stood and tried to tell the truth.”

    His attorney Joseph Bondy said they would be filing a motion to vacate the verdict “in the interest of justice.”

    Lev Parnas, Ukrainian-American businessman and former Giuliani associate, walks to the United States Court in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., October 18, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar

    “It’s obviously a very difficult time for Mr. Parnas and his wife and his children,” Bondy said.

    U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken denied a request from prosecutors to detain Parnas and Kukushkin. “The defendants have sufficiently established that they’re not a risk of flight,” Oetken said after the jury left.

    Oetken set a sentencing date of Feb. 16 for Kukushkin. He did not set a sentencing date for Parnas, who faces another possible trial on separate fraud charges.

    ‘IN WELL OVER HIS HEAD’

    The case provided a glimpse into the inner workings of political fundraising in the United States.

    “You saw the wires from Muraviev,” Assistant U.S Attorney Hagan Scotten told the jury during closing arguments on Thursday. “You saw how that money came out on the other side, finding its way into American elections, where the defendants thought they had bought influence to further their business.”

    Parnas’ defense lawyers countered that Muraviev’s funds went toward business investments, not campaign contributions, and that the donation to the pro-Trump group was from a company founded by Parnas and broke no laws.

    In his closing statement Parnas attorney Bondy characterized his client as a passionate proponent of marijuana legalization who was “in well over his head.” He argued that Muraviev’s money funded business operations, not campaign contributions.

    Deliberations in the trial began on Friday morning and lasted about five hours.

    Fruman, who lives in Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of soliciting campaign contributions from a foreign national. His sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 21.

    Parnas and Kukushkin had faced two counts of conspiring to make donations from a foreign national, and making the donations. Parnas had also been charged with four other counts, including making false statements to the Federal Elections Commission.

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    Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Franklin Paul, Grant McCool and Jonathan Oatis

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    Jody Godoy reports on banking and securities law. Reach her at jody.godoy@thomsonreuters.com

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    Reports on the New York federal courts. Previously worked as a correspondent in Venezuela and Argentina.

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  • Viral video, opinions challenge Georgia jury selection for Arbery case

    Viral video, opinions challenge Georgia jury selection for Arbery case

    Oct 22 (Reuters) – A Georgia court struggled this week to seat jurors in the trial of three white men accused of murdering Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, underscoring the challenge of finding people who have not formed firm opinions based on a viral video of the shooting.

    “I saw the news footage and I saw the video footage of the crime, and I’ve already formed a guilty opinion of the crime,” one woman told the court earlier this week.

    Arbery’s killing just outside the coastal city of Brunswick, Georgia, in February 2020 stoked national outrage and protests after the cellphone video taken by one of the three defendants went viral.

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    Defense lawyers and prosecutors say they are not looking for jurors who have not seen the video or don’t know about the case. Rather, they are trying to determine whether potential jurors can set aside any opinions they have and make a decision based on evidence presented to the court.

    Former policeman Gregory McMichael, 65; his son Travis McMichael, 35; and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, face charges of murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment. If convicted on all charges, they could draw a maximum sentence of life in prison.

    Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley told prosecutors and defense attorneys to speed things up. “I am not comfortable with this,” he said of the pace on the first day of jury selection on Monday.

    As of late Thursday night, out of 80 Glynn County residents interviewed, only 23 residents had been prequalified for a group of 64, from which the ultimate 12 jurors and four alternates will be selected to hear the case.

    Walsley said on Thursday that selection could take well into next week or possibly the week after. The court was not in session on Friday; jury selection is slated to resume on Monday.

    CITIZEN’S ARREST DEFENSE

    Defense attorneys have said in interviews that they plan to base their case largely on a now-defunct version of a “citizen’s arrest” law that allows people in the state to detain someone they suspect of a crime. The three defendants told police they thought Arbery was a burglar and the shooting was in self-defense after Arbery grappled with a shotgun leveled by Travis McMichael.

    Arbery, an avid runner and former high school football star, was shot three times and fell on the street in the suburban neighborhood.

    One potential juror was dismissed because he watched the video more than six times and told the court he thought the men were “guilty. They killed him. They did it as a team.”

    Another said, “The only time I’ve heard of citizen’s arrest is in ‘The Andy Griffith show’,” the 1960s TV comedy about a small-town sheriff.

    The man added that he would listen to both sides in the case. “Everyone deserves their day in court. It’s the foundation of our country, it’s the rule of law.”

    Of the 80 people brought to court through Thursday, a few said they had seen only clips from the video, and only two people told the court they hadn’t seen it.

    “I didn’t want to see somebody killed,” said one man in his 70s.

    Chris Slobogin, a Vanderbilt University law professor, said picking fair juries is harder in the days of cellphones and social media.

    “I mean, everyone’s seen this video,” he said. “I believe the judge will eventually find 12 jurors, but the work is to figure out if a person is being forthright when they say they can set aside what they saw.”

    A nurse told the court that she had thought hard about whether she could be a fair, impartial juror and “prayed about it.”

    “I feel firmly that I could do that,” she said.

    Another potential juror, a retired auto shop owner, said it would be hard to disregard the video.

    “Some things you just can’t unsee,” he said.

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    Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Jonathan Oatis

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  • U.S. Supreme Court takes up Texas abortion case, lets ban remain

    U.S. Supreme Court takes up Texas abortion case, lets ban remain

    Oct 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on Nov. 1 a challenge to a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on the procedure and lets private citizens enforce it – a case that could dramatically curtail abortion access in the United States if the justices endorse the measure’s unique design.

    The justices took up requests by President Joe Biden’s administration and abortion providers to immediately review their challenges to the law. The court, which on Sept. 1 allowed the law to go into effect, declined to act on the Justice Department’s request to immediately block enforcement of the measure.

    The court will consider whether the law’s unusual private-enforcement structure prevents federal courts from intervening to strike it down and whether the federal government is even allowed to sue the state to try to block it.

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    The measure bans abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, a point when many women do not yet realize they are pregnant. It makes an exception for a documented medical emergency but not for cases of rape or incest.

    Liberal Justice Sotomayor dissented from the court’s deferral of a decision on whether to block enforcement of the law while the litigation continues. Sotomayor said the law’s novel design has suspended nearly all abortions in Texas, the second most populous U.S. state, with about 29 million people.

    “The state’s gambit has worked. The impact is catastrophic,” Sotomayor wrote.

    The Texas dispute is the second major abortion case that the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has scheduled for the coming months, with arguments set for Dec. 1 over the legality of a restrictive Mississippi abortion law.

    The Texas and Mississippi measures are among a series of Republican-backed laws passed at the state level limiting abortion rights – coming at a time when abortion opponents are hoping that the Supreme Court will overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade that legalized the procedure nationwide.

    Mississippi has asked the justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the Texas attorney general on Thursday signaled that he also would like to see that ruling fall.

    A supporter of reproductive rights holds a sign outside the Texas State Capitol building during the nationwide Women’s March, held after Texas rolled out a near-total ban on abortion procedures and access to abortion-inducing medications, in Austin, Texas, U.S. October 2, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

    Lower courts already have blocked Mississippi’s law banning abortions starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy.

    The Texas measure takes enforcement out of the hands of state officials, instead enabling private citizens to sue anyone who performs or assists a woman in getting an abortion after cardiac activity is detected in the embryo. That feature has helped shield the law from being immediately blocked as it made it more difficult to directly sue the state.

    Individual citizens can be awarded a minimum of $10,000 for bringing successful lawsuits under the law. Critics have said this provision lets people act as anti-abortion bounty hunters, a characterization its proponents reject.

    Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the abortion providers, said Friday’s decision to hear their case “brings us one step closer to the restoration of Texans’ constitutional rights and an end to the havoc and heartache of this ban.”

    Alexis McGill Johnson, president of healthcare and abortion provider Planned Parenthood, said it is “devastating” that the justices did not immediately block a law that already has had a “catastrophic impact” after being in effect nearly two months.

    “Patients who have the means have fled the state, traveling hundreds of miles to access basic care, and those without means have been forced to carry pregnancies against their will,” she added.

    Kimberlyn Schwartz, a spokesperson for the Texas Right to Life anti-abortion group, praised the court’s action, saying it “will continue to save an estimated 100 babies per day, and because the justices will actually discuss whether these lawsuits are valid in the first place.”

    The Supreme Court only rarely decides to hear cases before lower courts have ruled, indicating that the justices have deemed the Texas matter of high public importance and requiring immediate review.

    The Justice Department filed its lawsuit in September challenging the Texas law, arguing that it is unconstitutional and explicitly designed to evade judicial review.

    Rulings in Texas and Mississippi cases are due by the end of next June, but could come sooner.

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    Reporting by Andrew Chung in New York; Editing by Will Dunham

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  • OurFamilyWizard Rolls Out a New Mobile Experience With Market-Leading Parenting Time Tools

    OurFamilyWizard Rolls Out a New Mobile Experience With Market-Leading Parenting Time Tools

    Ready-to-use templates and other new enhancements dramatically simplify the task of setting up co-parenting calendars on the OurFamilyWizard mobile app

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    updated: Apr 6, 2021


    MINNEAPOLIS, April 6, 2021 (Newswire.com)
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    OurFamilyWizard announced today that it has released a new mobile experience for building and tracking parenting time schedules, giving divorced or separated parents a decisively effective solution for coordinating calendars from separate homes.

    Managing schedules for children is a challenge for any family. When you add a shared custody or parenting time arrangement to the mix, it becomes infinitely more complicated. Most online calendar options are not built to accommodate the complexities of parenting time arrangements alongside day-to-day events. OurFamilyWizard’s calendaring tools are uniquely designed to make managing parenting time and schedules easier for co-parents. 

    With OurFamilyWizard’s most recent mobile update, parents can now easily create and customize color-coded parenting time schedules directly from the OurFamilyWizard mobile app. To simplify the process even further, OurFamilyWizard provides ready-to-use templates reflecting common parenting time rotations (i.e., 2-2-5-5, alternating weekends, etc.). Using the template as a starting point, parents can customize the schedules as needed. For example, parents can add precise transition times to note exactly when children are supposed to go from one home to the other. Additionally, leveraging a shared calendar via the mobile app allows parents to more easily request, manage, and document schedule changes and swaps.

    “The team is very excited to bring these new tools to our users,” said Nick VanWagner, CEO of OurFamilyWizard. “Seamless transitions between homes play a major factor in the overall success of co-parenting arrangements and the well-being of kids, yet we know that many co-parents find it challenging to manage this effectively. Given OurFamilyWizard’s commitment to helping families living separately thrive, we wanted to adequately address this pain point by simplifying the process of both creating and managing parenting time schedules from our app for co-parents.”  

    Since launching the first-ever online co-parenting application in 2001, OurFamilyWizard has continued to invest in its technology to ensure it continues to meet the ever-growing needs of its users. After receiving an equity investment in 2020, the company has also significantly increased headcount across the organization as it prepares for future growth. Most recently, it announced several executive hires, including the company’s first-ever Chief Marketing Officer, Bridgette Haymaker.

    About OurFamilyWizard

    OurFamilyWizard helps families living separately thrive. Its products provide both families and the family law professionals who serve them with the tools necessary for more seamless and successful co-parenting. Since its inception in 2001, over one million parents and professionals have leveraged OurFamilyWizard to share calendars, messages, journals, files, expenses, and important information such as health and school records. The platform has been recommended by courts in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia.

    Press Contact
    Sara Klemp
    sklemp@ourfamilywizard.com 
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  • Immigration Map is the Simplest, Fastest Path to a Green Card

    Immigration Map is the Simplest, Fastest Path to a Green Card

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    updated: Feb 17, 2021


    NEW YORK, February 17, 2021 (Newswire.com)
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    During the coronavirus pandemic, everyone felt helpless. There was no basic information regarding safety and security, no clear rules to follow, and significant uncertainty about the future. But as successful New York City immigration attorneys, Min Chan and Sumaiya Khalique also know that immigrants feel that same helplessness every day. That’s why they created Immigration Map (IM), a simple way for immigrants and employers to navigate the dense bureaucracy that is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). IM assists and empowers its members to navigate the complex immigration process with confidence.

    IM knows where its members want to go and how to get them there.

    IM’s founders are both immigrants, and children of Asian immigrants, who remember their own parents being frightened of a system they didn’t understand. While moving to America remains a powerful draw for many seeking legal and economic stability, one false move and immigrants can lose everything. “The best advice we can give immigrants is to carefully analyze, build and complete your visa or Green Card application before you file with USCIS,” says Min Chan. And IM can help.

    Analyze, Build, and Complete an Immigration Petition

    IM takes an individual from start to finish and turns their American Dream into reality. The three-step Analyze, Build, and Complete process is as simple as ABC. Immigrants can analyze their situation, build their case, and then complete and submit their petition to USCIS confidently.

    IM Puts Immigrants in the Driver’s Seat

    How does it work? One hears from friends that they need an H-1B Visa…maybe. They visit immimap.com and read user-friendly articles such as “6 Reasons to Apply for an L-1 Visa over an H1-Visa if You Are Eligible for Both” or even “When You Must File an Amended H-1B Visa Petition Due to Changes in Work Site Locations and Travel.” Based on this, they decide they need the L-1 Visa, so they open the checklist section for a list of critical documents to answer easy to understand questions.  IM is the guide to simplify the immigration journey for its members.

    IM’s Experience, Transparency, and Efficiency

    How is IM different from LegalZoom or Rocket Lawyer? With 30 years of combined experience, two attorneys provide more than downloadable forms members can struggle through; IM gives its members complete control over their immigration journey.  IM is transparent with its services, where its information comes from, and what it offers in the monthly subscription and its legal help with attorneys. The DIY technology and three-step Analyze, Build, and Complete process with IM will clearly outline what its members need, what its member should prepare for, and what its members never even considered.

    Sign up for a membership and get started today! 

    Media Contact:
    Min Chan, Esq.
    212.745.1388
    Immigration Map, LLC
    www.immimap.com

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  • Keeleg to Launch and Offer Free Access to Its AI-Powered Legal Tool Until May 1 in Response to COVID-19

    Keeleg to Launch and Offer Free Access to Its AI-Powered Legal Tool Until May 1 in Response to COVID-19

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    updated: Apr 8, 2020


    SAN FRANCISCO, April 8, 2020 (Newswire.com)
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    Keeleg is pleased to announce the public launch and offer of free access to its AI-powered, self-help immigration legal tool in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Every year, millions of people apply for legal permanent resident status, apply for naturalization to become U.S. citizens, or petition relatives to permanently immigrate to the United States of America. In addition to filing fees, the process can be quite expensive and complex. Through the help of Keeleg’s cloud-based, AI web application – dubbed Cato – users get qualified and prepare their own immigration applications or get connected to the best immigration attorneys around them. 

    Cato is a tool that combines artificial intelligence and the knowledge of award-winning attorneys to provide assistance for users with their immigration applications or search for the best immigration attorneys in their area. Cato’s knowledge currently covers hundreds of different immigration case scenarios, and new skills are being developed and added to cover other specialties and use cases.

    “After years spent in the industry, we noticed that something was broken and that there was and is a lack of access to legal knowledge and protection for all that need it. By leveraging cutting-edge technology like machine learning, natural language processing, natural language understanding, and natural language generation to power Cato, we aim to bridge this gap between supply and demand and make access to legal help and knowledge, easy, affordable, reliable, and time-saving for all,” said Anthony Remo Luna, CEO, and Co-founder of Keeleg.

    As a continuation of our mission to make legal access easy and to foster our commitment to people that seek legal knowledge, the company will be releasing a suite of other legal products dedicated to Chapter 7 individual bankruptcy filings and Wills and Trusts by Summer 2020. Users can sign up to get access to its early access program to try and prepare their applications for free. 

    About the company:

    Keeleg is dedicated to leveraging technology to make legal knowledge and help easy and available to everyone. The San Francisco-based company includes award-winning attorneys with over 30 years of experience in the private practice of law, software engineers, and tech enthusiasts and has created a new platform that leverages artificial intelligence to offer affordable, reliable and time-saving legal solutions.​

    Contact:

    Anthony Remo Luna, CEO, and Co-Founder

    social@keeleg.com ​

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  • How to Avoid Common Motorcycle Accidents

    How to Avoid Common Motorcycle Accidents

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    updated: Mar 1, 2018


    MIAMI, March 1, 2018 (Newswire.com)
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    MIAMI, February 28, 2018 (Newswire) -According to Shaked Law Firm, riding motorcycles can be fun, but if riders do not take the necessary safety precautions, it can become very dangerous. An accident involving a car may result in minor injuries or could cause severe injuries or death if the person is riding a motorcycle. 

    Although some accidents are unavoidable, caused by negligent drivers of other vehicles, other accidents might be avoided or their consequences lessened if a motorcyclist has the right skills and takes precautions says motorcycle accident lawyer Sagi Shaked.

    Motorcycle Safety

    For new riders, it is important to complete a basic rider course, and for my seasoned riders, an advanced course. Riders should wear a helmet and wear bright colors to make themselves more visible. 

    If a Vehicle Takes a Left in Front of a Motorcyclist

    This is the most common motorcycle accident and caused by negligent, inattentive, distracted drivers. You can try to avoid it by preparing for it. Are you approaching an intersection, driveway or garage sale? Is there a gap in traffic that someone may want to suddenly fill? Are the wheels of the car in the lane next to you starting to turn in your direction? 

    Rear Ended

    What if you come to a stop, but the driver behind you doesn’t see you or is going too fast to stop in time. If you’re at an intersection you could, nicely, pull in front of a car, and use them as a barrier to anyone coming from behind. To be more visible, you could also pull to the side of the land and rapidly flash your brake light by tapping a brake lever, keep the bike in gear and your right hand on the throttle.

    No matter how many safety precautions a motorcyclist takes, there is always the possibility of a serious injury because of negligent or distracted drivers. If you or a loved one have been injured in a motorcycle accident, do not hesitate to contact a competent motorcycle accident attorney today. 

    About Shaked Law Firm P.A.

    Shaked Law Firm P.A. provides superior representation for personal injury, medical malpractice or motor vehicle accidents in Miami. Mr. Shaked was one of the youngest lawyers in the United States to achieve a multi-million-dollar verdict for a single personal injury lawsuit. Furthermore, in 2017, Mr. Shaked obtained a $12,200,000 settlement for his client in a vehicular accident case.  

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  • The Law Store (A Missouri Company) Grows to Five Locations with Texas Expansion

    The Law Store (A Missouri Company) Grows to Five Locations with Texas Expansion

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    updated: Dec 15, 2016


    Dallas, Texas, December 15, 2016 (Newswire.com)
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    ​The Law Store™, a U.S. law firm focused on innovating new concepts for access and delivery of legal services, has recently launched its new Texas brand, Hershewe and Humphreys, The Law Store™ in two new locations inside of Walmart this November: 7401Samuell Blvd. Dallas, TX 75228, and 150 North Interstate 35 East Service Road Lancaster, Texas.

    The Dallas and Lancaster stores were open in time to offer deals on legal services by Black Friday including ‘buy one, get one free’ wills, reduced business service bundles, and reduced traffic ticket services.  The two locations are offering $50 wills for area residents during the months of December and January.

    “Our custom CRM platform allows clients to self-schedule online, manage documents, e-sign, pay online, and communicate with counsel – on their home computer or mobile device.”

    Kurt Benecke, Chief Operating Officer

    Hershewe & Humphreys, The Law Store offers fast, face­-to-face legal services in convenient locations and Free First Advice™. Customers can stop in or schedule an appointment with an attorney at The Law Store to discuss client’s needs and to create a legal plan. The sites offer a variety of services including wills and estate planning, traffic tickets and DWI, family law, small businesses, personal injuries, elder law, real estate services, immigration, and bankruptcy.

    The Law Store is set to open two additional locations in the Kansas City, Missouri area in February and another in Grand Prairie, Texas by March. The Law Store is currently recruiting qualified, enthusiastic employees and interns for all new locations.

    “Connecting with Walmart, the world’s largest retail chain, to evolve our vision for the convenient delivery of legal service just made sense,” said Kurt Benecke, Chief Operating Officer.  The Law Store unites on-site attorney guidance in a friendly location with state-of-the-art technology and affordability and menu-style pricing. “Our custom CRM platform allows clients to self-schedule online, manage documents, e-sign, pay online, and communicate with counsel – on their home computer or mobile device,” said Benecke.  “With The Law Store’s model, you can begin the process online and complete it with an attorney in-store. You even have the option to meet with your attorney while on a grocery run and complete the process at home.”

    Hershewe & Humphreys, The Law Store will maintain business hours from 10am to 8pm on weekdays and 10am to 6pm on weekends.  To learn more about The Law Store, its concept, plans for expansion, or to set up an interview, please contact Michelle Hucke at michelle@thelawstore.com or visit the website at www.thelawstore.com.

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