New Arizona White Collar Crimes Website

Congrats to Mathew & Associates on the release of their new FindLaw website; www.financialcrimeslawyer.com

Lead attorney, Ivan Mathew, is a former federal prosecutor with an amazing track record of success. His site mentions notable victories on behalf of corporations and financial institutions, officers and directors, defense contractors, and professionals who faced federal prosecution for:

• Fraud and white collar crimes
  Securities fraud
  Tax controversies
  Antitrust violations

Ivan Mathew is licensed in Arizona and Colorado, including Tax Court, state and federal courts and appeals courts. He is a licensed CPA, and holds an LL.M. in international business law from the London School of Economics. Ivan is extremely well traveled and the design of his new site reflects that, showcasing various cities in which he routinely works or travels to. The extremely 'clean' design was designed by senior designer, Nate Rein. Nate also designed www.bakerlaw-az.com here in Arizona.

Outstanding Arizona DUI Lawyer BLOG

Besides being a great informational resource on the law, a legal BLOG can also serve as a conduit for getting new clients. Koplow & Patane, a Phoenix personal injury and DUI law firm, maintains an outstanding DUI BLOG.

A former vehicular crimes prosecutor, Lawrence Koplow, uses his BLOG (www.koplowondui.com ) to discuss salient DUI topics in Arizona. What makes his BLOG interesting versus most legal BLOGs is how he personalizes each posting. Rather than writing a legal treatise on a particular subject, Lawrence uses the facts of his actual cases to tell a story that both entertains and informs.

A great example is his most recent post in which he was able to secure probation for a client after the prosecutor had offered a 3.5 year jail sentence. His posting offers great insight into how a criminal investigation can proceed and the importance of thorough and exhaustive witness interviews.

Did You Know??? Attorney Angelo Patane was involved in the largest verdict in the history of Arizona; a $1,500,000,000 (one-billion-five-hundred-million dollar) jury verdict.

Rosenstein Law Group Release 3 New Sites

Congrats to the Rosenstein Law Group on the release of three new FindLaw websites; www.rosensteinbizlaw.com, www.rosensteininjurylaw.com, and www.scottsdale-duilawyer.com

A general law practice in Scottsdale Arizona, the firm is led by attorney Craig Rosenstein. The firm operates in three distinct areas; business law, DUI defense, and personal injury law.

To help better market themselves online, the firm chose to build 3 distinct web sites. The focused content of each site should allow for better search engine rankings over time.

Phoenix Family Lawyer Upgrades Site

Scott David Stewart, a Phoenix Family Lawyer, just upgraded his family law website to include flash animation. The flash includes a sequence of family law images that rotate on the home page.
In my opinion, the flash greatly enhances the design of an already effective legal site.


The Law Offices of Scott David Stewart handles divorce, child custody matters, child support, property division, and spousal maintenance agreements. The firm also handles criminal defense matters in Arizona.

Sanders & Parks Upgrades Their Website

Congrats to Sanders & Parks on the release of their new upgraded firmsite; http://www.sandersparks.com/

A beautiful site with fantastic flash animation, the new site replaces their original FindLaw custom site which I featured in a post on 10/17.

Special thanks to Brett Hager, Debora Verdier & Artie Eaves for their work on the Sanders & Parks website commitee. The three were instrumental in the development of the site and in building consensus within the firm.

I also want to thank project manager Nicole Roux who did a fantastic job coordinating a very complex project.

Arizona DUI Dismissals

John Tatz, a Phoenix DUI lawyer, has gotten some great results for his clients this year;

Oct. 2007 - Set a 2nd offense Extreme DUI case with a .176 breath test to jury trial in Phoenix Municipal Court, which resulted in dismissal of all DUI prior to trial.

Oct. 2007 – Investigated case that led to dismissal of DUI/Drugs case in West McDowell Justice Court.

Sept. 2007 – Investigated case that led to dismissal of DUI charge with .051 blood test and accident in Yarnell Justice Court (Yavapai County).

May 2007 - Negotiated a plea to a Reckless Driving with no jail and dismissal of DUI charges with a .144 blood test in Scottsdale Municipal Court.

May 2007 - Negotiated a plea to a Reckless Driving with no jail and dismissal of DUI charges with a .104 blood test in North Valley Justice Court.

May 2007 – Filed a Motion to Suppress that was granted and resulted in dismissal of all charges in DUI/Drugs case in San Marcos Justice Court.

To see more outsanding results, please vist John's website; http://www.letmedefendyou.com/

Lawyer Marketing Website

If you are looking for additional information on legal internet marketing, a great resource is FindLaw's main website; http://www.lawyermarketing.com/

Loaded with great articles and information, the site is the leading source of online marketing information for attorneys. It also has a preview of our soon to be released video product.

Turkey & Painkillers

As I write this I am sitting in the ER waiting room at Scottsdale Osborn Hospital. This morning I badly injured my left knee while playing in a basketball tournament. While I am no doctor, I am afraid that the loud popping sound I heard and the shooting pain fortells a torn ligament. Hopefully I am wrong and its just a bad strain. Either way I will be hobbling around for awhile and missing Thanksgiving dinner. While an inconvenience, thankfully thats all it is....

As I lay here waiting (they just moved me to a bed!) I realize I have much to be thankful about. I have a 3 wonderful and healthy kids; Samantha 6, Casey 4, and Evan 2, a beautiful and supportive wife Heather, and great friends.

I am also thankful for the great people I work with at FindLaw. The project managers, writers, designers, attorney editors, account managers, search engine optimization specialists, and developers all do a wonderful job and are a big reason why I love my job. The high level work they consistently produce sells itself and makes my job easy.

Happy Thanksgiving!

$1.7 million Medical Malpractice Settlement

Richard Remender, a medical malpractice attorney based in Sedona, recently helped secure a $1.7 million dollar settlement for a client in Nebraska.

In 2004 the client went to the hospital after suffering a stroke. He was treated, put on blood thinners and sent home. Two weeks later he suffered a recurrence and returned to the same hospital. It was decided to do a spinal tap to determine the existence of spinal meningitis. The doctors were negligent in failing to recall he'd been put on blood thinners just two weeks before. As a result, he suffered a foot-long blood clot and was permanently paralyzed and confined to a wheel chair. That case settled in Nebraska for one million six hundred and forty thousand dollars. The claim was worth much more but the State of Nebraska has a cap on damages of one million seven hundred thousand dollars.

Richard has gotten a number of successful results for his clients over the last few years;

• A plaintiff mother of five children sought a legal abortion from a Phoenix physician. She and her husband agreed they could not afford another child. He determined she was thirteen weeks pregnant and sought to induce a abortion by use of a toxic solution. In fact, he was wrong and she was thirty-two weeks pregnant. She gave birth to a living child who was deformed by the botched abortion. That claim settled for 2.2 million dollars.


• A woman passenger on a motorcyle was badly injured when another motorist pulled in front of the bike she was on. She suffered a drop foot and other injuries. That claim settled for the policy limits of three hundred thousand dollars.


• A young man working on a framing crew stepped on a crossbeam that was improperly afixed to another. It gave way causing him to fall twenty feet headfirst to the slab below. Fortunately he made a complete recovery from his injuries. This case is unique in that usually Workman's Compensation laws usually prevent a worker from suing his employer for injuries on the jobsite caused by the negligence of a co-employee. That claim settled for seven hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.


• In 2002 a Sedona woman had a routine diskectomy on a Friday. This procedure is routinely done by a surgeon through the front of the neck to implant either a piece of the patient's hip bone or in the alternative a piece of plastic between the vertebrae to relieve pain in the neck. By Sunday she was having trouble breathing, as though there was some physical obstruction in the airway. Her husband took her to the Sedona ER where she was intubated by a technician. The supervising physician negligently allowed the tech to collapse a lung after which she passed away. That claim settled for seven hundred and forty thousand dollars.
  
  Did You Know??? Richard Remender is a cancer survivor and is actively involved in a cancer survivor support group

New Personal Injury Website!! www.azcrash.com

Congrats to the Law Offices of Arturo A. Trevino on the release of their new FindLaw firmsite; http://www.azcrash.com/. A personal injury law firm with offices in both Phoenix and Tucson Arizona, the firm is focused on helping the victims of car accidents throughout Arizona.

The new site features a Frequently Asked Questions section in personal injury that is updated every month. It also features a page of custom Spanish content.

Turley, Swan, Childers, Righi & Torrens P.C.

Congrats to the law firm of Turley, Swan, Childers, Righi & Torrens, P.C on the release of their new FindLaw custom website; www.turleyswanandchilders.com

The Phoenix Construction and Insurance Litigation Law Firm represents construction, insurance, and professional clients on a wide range of litigation problems throughout Arizona. A significant focus of the new website and the firm is construction defect defense, for which the firm has developed a sterling reputation. The firm is one of the few in Arizona to have successfully tried a major construction defect case to verdict.

The new site was designed by Matt Jewett. An extremely talented designer, Matt also designed www.letmedefendyou.com for John Tatz here in Arizona.

Adding a Newsletter

Does your firm write a weekly or monthly newsletter? Do you write practice related articles from time to time? If so, you should probably include them on your website. Besides being a great source of new searchable custom content, it will likely serve as a great resource for readers.

If you don't have time to write your own newsletter we can help. We provide monthly newsletters in 12 different practice areas. With a FindLaw newsletter subscription, a new practice related article is added to your site every month.

Platt & Westby, a Phoenix general practice law firm has 3 FindLaw newsletter subscriptions on their site; Real Estate, Probate & Estate Planning, and Divorce. The dynamic content has definitely contributed to the site's high search engine rankings for these areas.

New Scottsdale Criminal Law Site!!!

Congrats to the Bergman Law Offices, PLLC on the release of their new FindLaw website; http://www.criminallawyerscottsdale.com/

The firm is led by experienced Arizona criminal defense lawyer Stewart Bergaman. Stewart brings a wealth of experience to the law practice of Bergman Law Offices, PLLC, in Scottsdale. He was a prosecutor for the District Attorney's Office in Oregon, where he handled thousands of criminal cases involving drug offenses, domestic assaults, thefts and burglaries. Attorney Bergman has also served as a Maricopa County Deputy Public Defender, and worked as a criminal defense attorney at private law firms before opening his own law firm.

Criminal Site adds Presentation Pack

Congrats to Phoenix criminal attorney, Howard Snader, on the release of his upgraded website; http://www.notacriminal.com/

A long time FindLaw client, Howard added flash animation to his site along with video. The new site features 5 videos. Besides the home page, video is featured on the domestic violence page, the drug crime page, DUI, and sexual assault page.

Did You Know??? After picking up the sport of bowling just one year ago, Howard has gotten very good, bowling a 256 last month.

Happy Veterans Day!

For today's post I wanted to salute my clients that have served in our Country's Armed Forces.

Jose Mendoza Marines
Richard Remender Marines
Rebecca Owen Air Force
John P. Moore Air Force
Larry G. Ruch Air Force
Harvey Platt Army
Shane Harward Army
Sam Crump Army
Gregory Michael Army
Neal Rodak Navy
Robert J. Hommel Navy
Randy J. Tunac Navy

Thank you again for your service.

Phoenix DUI Attorney

I got a chance to catch up with Phoenix DUI attorney, John Tatz last week. John told me he was extremely busy (something I always want to hear!) and that the site was working great.

John started with FindLaw in August of 2006 with a template site. After just six months, he upgraded to his current FindLaw custom website. The new site, http://www.letmedefendyou.com/ has been a source of both new business and numerous compliments!

The Law Office of John Tatz, P.C., represents people charged with DUI and other criminal offenses throughout the Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding areas. John has successfully protected the rights of clients charged with DUI, DUI drugs, extreme DUI, aggravated DUI, and all other criminal charges. He has over fifteen years of legal experience, including working as a city prosecutor and public defender.

Experienced Paralegal Services

Need a fast and efficient part time paralegal? Nanci K. Williams & Associates LLC is a professional paralegal service located at 2111 E. Highland in Phoenix. Nanci is experienced in;

• LLC Operating Agreements
• Will & Trust Packages
• Informal Probates
• Transfers & Affidavits
• Real Estate/Contract Deeds
• Entity Formation & Maintenance
• Shareholder Partnerships & Joint Venture Agreements
• Registered Agent Services

I found out about Nanci from FindLaw client Jim Byrne, who has worked with Nanci extensively; "My productivity as a sole practitioner has soared after taking advantage of Nanci's speed and accuracy." - Jim Byrne

*You can reach Nanci via email at NKW@nancikwilliams.com or by phone @ 602-954-9276

Brain Injury Seminar - Save the Date!

The Law Office of Samuel K. Cullan M.D., J.D. and Associates will be hosting an upcoming seminar on Traumatic Brain Injury at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas March 6-7, 2008.

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
Training For Litigators
March 6-7, 2008
Rio Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, NV.

The Law Offices of Dr. Samuel K. Cullan M.D., J.D. and Associates are made up of both doctors and trial lawyers who are dedicated to aggressively representing individuals and their families who have suffered severe injuries or wrongful death due to the negligence of others. Dr. Sam Cullan and Dr. Gene Cullan are attorneys with special training in medicine, anatomy and physiology. More information on the firm can be found on their website; http://www.cullaninjurylaw.com/.

Medical Malpractice Firm Seeks Experienced Litigator

On Friday I got a chance to catch up with long time FindLaw client, David Patton. David is the lead attorney for the Patton Law Practice located in Scottsdale, AZ. Focused exclusively on plaintifs medical malpractice and nursing home neglect, the firm has been growing very fast. To meet that growth, the firm is looking to bring in an experienced litigation attorney. The ideal candidate should have at least 10 years of litigation experience and a history of successful results. Most importantly the candidate should share David's commitment to change healthcare for the better.

The salary starts at $150k/yr along with a generous yearly bonus that is tied to the amount of cases closed.

The firm is a high quality low volume practice that has the financial resources to accept and litigate any medical malpractice case that has merit. To help screen potential cases, the firm employs a registered OR nurse and will be soon adding an in-house physician.

*If you are interested in learning more about the position, please contact the firm through their website.

Duplicate Content Fliter

In just about every law school, taking credit for a copied paper would get you kicked out of school. While the consequences may not seem as dire, stealing web content that is not your own will get you kicked out of the search results.

In their quest to provide a great search experience, most search engines have instituted a duplicate content filter to catch plagiarized content. Therefore, it is vitally important that your site contains original custom content. It is equally important to remain vigilant that others are not copying your content. To see if your content has been copied you can go to either similar page checker or copyscape.

Besides the negative ranking consequences, taking content that is not yours is unethical and reflects very poorly upon the attorney who does it.

New Family Law Site!!!

Congrats to the Peoria AZ law firm, Sampair & Waldrip on the release of their new FindLaw website; http://www.sampairlaw.com/

With over 46 years of combined experience, the firm is dedicated to resolving family law disputes in a reasonable and cost effective manner.

The firm's comprehensive family law practice is designed to fully address a broad array of domestic relations disputes, including: divorce, paternity, child custody, child support, and spousal support.

New Arizona Employment Lawyer Site

Congrats to Edmundo Robaina on the release of his firm's new FindLaw website www.robainalaw.com. The new optimized website enhances his already strong web presence for employment law in Phoenix. For the past few years Robaina & Palomina, P.C. has benefited from a FindLaw Top Spot in employment law. The Top Spot has generated a consistent stream of new calls and clients for his firm.

Mr. Robaina practices primarily in the areas of labor and employment law. He advises and represents individuals and business clients in discrimination/harassment, wrongful termination, employee discipline, wage and hour, breach of contract, and other employment related matters. He has represented numerous clients in administrative hearings, mediation & arbitration, and before various state and federal courts.