Attorney Andrew Abraham

I hope this verdict will tell construction companies that safety regulations need to be followed and not forgotten.

WOBURN, Mass. (PRWEB)
August 07, 2021

Justice has been served with another record-breaking verdict, this time in Middlesex County. As of August 2021, Keches Law Group now has the two largest verdicts in Massachusetts for 2021, in addition to the largest verdict in Massachusetts for 2020.

On Wednesday, August 8th, a Middlesex County jury awarded $26.6 million to a union mason steward who was seriously hurt while working on a complex rehabilitation of the Longfellow Bridge. The Longfellow Bridge, spanning the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge, was first constructed over 100 years ago and a joint venture between three large construction companies was responsible for the work.

On May 9th, 2014, the steward’s life changed forever. According to case #1581CV05652 in Middlesex Superior Court, the steward fell over five feet through a two-foot hole in the scaffolding he was working on and landed violently on a pile of concrete debris. The scaffolding was not fully planked at the time of his fall in violation of state and federal safety regulations. This construction accident had significant consequences. The Steward sustained severe injuries to his back, neck, and legs. Upon medical evaluation, he had to endure seven spinal operations and nine total operations that resulted in his spine being largely fused together.

Attorneys Andrew Abraham, Harrison Lebov, and Martin Sabounjian of Keches Law Group, and Attorney Melissa Brennan of Feinberg, Dumont & Brennan represented the plaintiff. The trial lasted eight days, and the jury deliberated for just under three hours.

“The Joint Venture in this case made promises to keep this job safe and did not keep these promises, leaving workers in danger. I hope this verdict will tell construction companies that safety regulations need to be followed and not forgotten. No amount of money can undo the steward’s injuries; unfortunately, he will live with them forever, but this verdict will help tremendously with the quality of life for him and his family,” said Attorney Abraham of the monumental verdict.

“The compassion and well wishes the jurors gave our client after delivering the verdict was particularly moving to him and me,” said Attorney Brennan while describing Wednesday’s events. “He has waited a long time to tell his story and for justice ” she added.

About Feinberg, Dumont & Brennan

Feinberg, Dumont & Brennan is a partnership of Feinberg & Brennan, P.C. (founded in 1983) and Dumont, Morris & Burke, P.C. (founded in 1988) that represents a broad spectrum of labor unions, their members and their affiliated pension and welfare benefit plans, including Teamster, Construction, IATSE, AFM, Longshoremen, Police, Firefighters, and Correction Officers.

About Keches Law Group

The Keches Law Group has become one of the largest and most well-respected personal injury law firms in New England with our 42 lawyers having a combined 800 plus years of experience fighting to protect the rights of injured people who are facing difficult times after an accident or injury. We have a no-fee policy unless we win your case and a proven track record with over $1 billion in verdicts and settlements won for our clients. For more information or to schedule a free consultation, please visit: Kecheslaw.com

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Defense Attorney Aubrey K. Noonan awarded Top 40 Under 40, 2021.

The Crowder Law Firm is very proud to have Attorney Noonan on our team. This prestigious recognition is well deserved, as Ms. Noonan is an incredibly valuable asset. She is dedicated to providing high-quality service and fighting for her clients throughout the legal process.

PLANO, Texas (PRWEB)
July 28, 2021

The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40 award is an invitation-only honor that selects distinguished attorneys from each region who are under 40 years old. Aubrey Noonan is a passionate state and federal criminal defense attorney who recently celebrated her one-year anniversary with The Crowder Law Firm.

As a Fort Worth native, Attorney Noonan earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Political Science from the University of North Texas, graduating magna cum laude. Ms. Noonan then went on to attend Texas Tech University School of Law, receiving her law degree in May 2016. While attending university, Aubrey Noonan also served as the Senior Law School Representative of the State Bar of Texas.

Attorney Noonan held multiple law-focused positions throughout her academic career, including working as the Executive Comment Editor of Tech Law’s Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal. Additionally, she held positions with the Lubbock County District Attorney’s Offices, Tarrant County Criminal District Courts’ Judicial Staff Counsel, as well as the criminal defense firm Hurley, Guinn & Sellers. Since completing her formal education, Attorney Noonan has also worked for the law firm of Mills & Williams, L.L.P in Dallas, Texas.

Ms. Noonan currently holds membership in the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association, the Dallas Young Lawyers Association, and the Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. She is licensed to practice law in both the U.S. District Court’s Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas. Attorney Noonan is committed to representing clients in all state and federal matters, and she has experience in a wide range of cases including DWIs, thefts, and sexual assaults.

About The Crowder Law Firm, P.C.

Based in Plano, Texas, The Crowder Law Firm has been serving residents of Collin County and surrounding areas for over 20 years. The firm’s practice areas include but are not limited to crimes against children, property crimes, and violent crimes. Equipped with immense knowledge and drive, the team at Crowder Law Firm has secured over 250 not-guilty verdicts and acquittals for their clients. With experience handling high-profile cases, Darlina Crowder is a powerful advocate for her clients. Her team is prepared to defend against serious felony charges in both state and federal court.

To learn more about this firm, visit https://www.crowdercriminalfirm.com/ or call 214-303-9600 for a free consultation.

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SAN DIEGO (PRWEB)
June 27, 2021

California ranks among the top five in states with the highest numbers of incarcerated prisoners who were wrongfully convicted, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, and subsequently exonerated.

According the National Registry of Exonerations, since 1989 there have been 241 exonerations of wrongfully convicted victims in California . The states of Texas, Illinois, and New York make up other states where exonerations are at or well above these high levels. Estimates of the wrongfully convicted range between a low of 2% to as high as 15% of the current U.S. prison population, and estimates in some states could be higher according to National Registry of Exonerations .

CAL-FIJA Launches Project “Free The Innocent”

Today, CAL-FIJA announced the launch of one of its priority projects in California. Project “Free The Innocent”. Spokesman and State Director, James Harnsberger stated, “Our nation, our state and every community suffers from a growing epidemic of distrust and frustration with the criminal justice system. A large part of that distrust comes directly from the growing numbers of wrongful convictions of innocent men and women who were serving prison terms for a crime they did not commit .”

Project “Free The Innocent” (FTI) is a multi-tiered public awareness and outreach program aimed at educating every citizen in California of the tragedy of wrongful convictions. It also is a platform for engagement in public speaking opportunities, fund raising efforts for organizations that are defending wrongfully convicted victims such as the California Innocence Project of a failed criminal justice system.

In addition to these efforts, Project “Free The Innocent” will serve as CAL-FIJA’s primary banner as it begins organizational efforts in California to establish Chapters within each county statewide.

Mr. Harnsberger went on to add, “Our mission is focused on the problem of wrongful convictions and the engagement of the public at-large to right every wrong produced from a failed criminal justice system and serve as a model for activists nationwide.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

CAL-FIJA

James Harnsberger, State Director

http://www.CALFIJA.Org

Info@CALFIJA.org

(619) 592-2708

ENDNOTES – References Cited

http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Exonerations-in-the-United-States-Map.aspx

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Counting-Exonerations.aspx

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx

https://californiainnocenceproject.org/

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5-Time Champion Aaron Schwartzbart

Schwartzbart is quick to credit visionary Sergeant Marcela Garcia of LAPD Rampart Division and her Captain, Al Lopez for their willingness to try innovative programs…

GRANADA HILLS, Calif. (PRWEB)
June 23, 2021

MotorGospel Ministries is pleased to announce the latest milestone in their endeavor to see young people make it to adulthood without killing themselves or anybody else behind the wheel. Based on the success of the After School Auto Shop Club that they offer at the Granada Hills-based MotorGospel Youth Center, they are innovating a mobile version of the program where students can get hands-on with MotorGospel Ministries’ race cars at police stations throughout Los Angeles. The successful program has had robust support from LA City Councilmember John Lee, La Mirada Mayor John Lewis and has been featured in multiple media outlets including Fox 11, CBS, ABC, Spectrum One, and Sky News.

If prior experience is any indicator, some of the youth in the program will demonstrate passion, commitment and tenacity that will earn them a fast track into employment opportunities at the likes of Galpin Ford and educational opportunities in the Cal State University Northridge (CSUN) Mechanical Engineering program. One of the distinctives of the CSUN major is Formula SAE racing; a national race series among collegiate engineering students.

Aaron Schwartzbart, President and Pastor of MotorGospel Ministries left the space program after 28 years as a rocket scientist to devote full time to the ministry. With degrees in physics and theology, he is a 5-time champion race car driver and an ordained minister. Schwartzbart is quick to credit visionary Sergeant Marcela Garcia of LAPD Rampart Division and her Captain, Al Lopez for their willingness to try innovative programs designed to both discourage illegal street racing and encourage legitimate vocational opportunities within professional motorsports. Schwartzbart and the cadre of motorsports professionals supporting his program are volunteering their time so the mobile version of the auto shop club can be offered at neither cost to the taxpayers, the LAPD nor the cadets.

For more information, contact Officer Larry Covington at 31347@lapd.online, 213-484-3072 or Tere Schwartzbart at motorgospel@gmail.com, 818.620.7132.

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“There is tremendous opportunity to address the challenges that multinational corporations are facing through our partner program,” said May Ma, VP of Transformation, FourQ. “Collaboration with strategic partners will enable us to seamlessly deliver innovative and interoperable solutions at scale.”

WESTPORT, Conn. (PRWEB)
June 15, 2021

In response to increased demand for intercompany financial management (IFM), FourQ has launched a global partner program designed to drive collaboration and engagement with technology providers, consulting firms, and professional services firms. The partner program will promote and develop joint best-in-class intercompany solutions in areas of tax, billing, vendor payments, and financial transformation.

“Corporations operating across various tax jurisdictions with multiple ERP systems are burdened with intercompany complexity and overhead,” explained May Ma, Vice President of Transformation at FourQ. “There is a tremendous opportunity to address the challenges that multinational corporations are facing through our new FourQ partner program. Collaboration with strategic technology and consulting partners will enable us to seamlessly deliver innovative and interoperable solutions at scale.”

The FourQ partner program encompasses four distinct channels, including:

• Technology Partners. Companies that offer financial close and automation solutions (such as e-invoicing) that complement and enhance FourQ’s technical capabilities to provide customers with comprehensive solutions.
• Managed Service and BPO Partners. Outsourcing providers of standardized back-office processes that leverage FourQ’s platform to differentiate their service offerings and maximize clients’ investments.
• Consulting and Professional Services Partners. Services firms that bring a wealth of knowledge in tax, financial advisory, process controls, and industry expertise.
• Referral Partners. Firms that serve and educate those involved with managing intercompany risk and intercompany financial management processes.

FourQ streamlines operations and eliminates the complexity inherent to conducting global business. Providing automated intercompany processing seamlessly integrated with global vendor invoice management, FourQ processes over $34 billion annually across 110 countries. FourQ’s intercompany financial management platform, comprising of two integrated solutions include Paymaster which provides universal vendor invoice management and OneBiller which automates intercompany accounting for billing and tax optimization.

As defined by business technology research and advisory services firm, Ventana Research, IFM is a discipline for structuring and handling transactions within a corporation and between its legal entities. IFM is designed to maximize staff efficiency and accounting accuracy while optimizing tax exposure, minimizing tax leakage, and ensuring consistent tax and regulatory compliance. Ventana Research predicts that by 2025, one-half of organizations with 10,000 or more employees will have implemented IFM to achieve tax, risk management, and financial close benefits.

To learn more about FourQ’s partner program, please contact us at: partnerships@Four-Q.com.

About FourQ

Built by finance, accounting, and tax experts, FourQ is Intercompany Financial Management software that streamlines the global operations of the world’s largest companies. Providing automated intercompany processing seamlessly integrated with global vendor invoice management, FourQ helps multinational companies increase efficiency and improve global business operations. This increases operational productivity while saving millions of dollars annually through improved intercompany billing and payment and tax optimization. Discover why FourQ processes over $34 billion annually across 110 countries and how it can transform global operations at your organization. Learn more at http://www.FourQ.com.

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Sheer buying power allows you to wrangle favorable pricing, but costs still accrue quickly when matters are fluid, and the budget isn’t being closely monitored.

LONDON (PRWEB)
June 07, 2021

Private equity (PE) firms spend millions annually with law firms to manage high-end legal matters such as fundraising, merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions and litigation – but not all private capital firms are effective at managing those costs. That’s according to a new report by Apperio titled, Scale vs. agility in private equity: Mid-sized PE firms are edging out their larger competitors with better management of legal expenses.

While large PE firms, which this report classifies as those with greater than $10 billion in assets under management (AUM), glean some benefit from their volume of spending on legal services, the study found mid-sized PE firms are generally more proactive about legal spend management. Mid-sized PE firms, those with between $3 billion and $10 billion in AUM, put significantly more effort into process and technology to control the cost of outside counsel.

“This study demonstrates the limitations of relying solely on scale to control the growth in cost of legal services,” said Apperio Founder and CEO Nicholas d’Adhemar who is both a former lawyer and PE investment manager. “Sheer buying power allows you to wrangle favorable pricing, but costs still accrue quickly when matters are fluid, and the budget isn’t being closely monitored.”

Some of the key findings in the study include:

● Scale in legal spending has certain advantages. Large PE firms outspend mid-sized firms on legal services. That does provide some advantages with legal service suppliers in certain matters. For example, large PE firms spend less on legal as a percentage per M&A transaction than mid-sized firms even as they tend to work on larger deals that cost more overall to execute.

● One in five large PE firms are “often shocked” by the size of legal invoices. That shock has effects on the internal organizational dynamics that are problematic. More than half (55%) say higher than expected invoices cause them to reforecast budgets, which leads to widespread internal friction among legal, finance and investment teams.

● Some large PE firms make no effort to control legal costs. About one in five large PE firms (22%) say they make no effort to actively manage legal costs compared to just 4% of mid-sized firms. Seven in 10 large PE firms reported they were billed for legal work that was, in hindsight, considered unnecessary or redundant.

● Mid-sized PE firms place a sharper focus on spending. The difference in legal spend management approaches between mid-sized and large PE firms becomes more pronounced in a comparison of business processes. For example, 74% of mid-sized PE firms enforce a formal budget approval process for new matters, compared to just 55% of large PE firms.

● Interest grows in specialized legal spend technology. The majority of both mid-sized (70%) and large PE firms (65%) are reliant on manual data collection and spreadsheets for managing millions in annual legal spend. However, that reliance is down from 91% compared to an earlier survey published in July 2020. Across PE firms of all sizes, most either have specialized legal spend management software in place or have plans to introduce it within their organization.

“It’s important to note that PE firms of all sizes recognize this is a material concern,” added d’Adhemar. “Nearly three quarters of mid-sized PE firms (72%) and large firms (77%) say legal spend optimization is a priority for their organization in 2021.”

The report points to EQT, one of the world’s largest private investment firms, as a model to follow. In a case study, EQT noted, before implementing legal spend management, there could be a gap of weeks between law firm status and time-entry updates – and fees would suddenly and unexpectedly jump in that period.

Now their legal spend management efforts enable them to see exactly what’s happening without having to ask law firms for such granular updates. In turn, this provides the opportunity to prevent costs from mushrooming.

About the Report

This report is a new analysis based on a specific data set from an independent survey of PE firms of all sizes. A complimentary copy of the report is freely available for download here – or simply email marketing@apperio.com to request a copy.

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About Apperio

Apperio is a legal spend analytics and matter tracking platform which effectively transforms how corporate legal departments function, bringing clarity, control and confidence to their operations. The platform provides complete real-time certainty on legal spend, aggregating data from all connected law firms and providing consistent, up-to-date information on all work-in-progress (WIP) and billed legal matters. Apperio visually represents for legal teams, finance and other corporate departments exactly what has and will be spent on legal fees, accurately measuring the performance of its external law firms. Quick to install, cloud-based Apperio requires no on-site IT team. Currently, the platform is used daily by more than 50 in-house legal teams including Epiris, EQT, Network Rail, Royal London, Monzo and Farfetch.

Apperio is based in London, England. For more information, please visit Apperio.com or follow Apperio on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Media Contact:

Frank Strong

for Apperio, Ltd.

+1 202-352-5920

media@apperio.com

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