Leading Edge Legal Advice for Everyday Matters Archive: May 2012


  • Workplace drug testing

    Employment drug testing laws affect job applicants, those employed, and employers. You should be familiar with drug testing laws to assure your rights are protected and to avoid liability. Published May 29 2012

  • Prom Time is Near: Responsibility for Teen Drinking --The Law and a Higher Calling.

    Regrettably, legislators in our nation’s capital and the surrounding jurisdictions of Maryland and Virginia, continue to give a free ride to parents who allow their under-age teenage children to drink in their homes. Published May 24 2012

  • Renting Your Home Intelligently

    Some landlords can be phenomenal, others, not so much. Here are some thoughts on maintaining harmony, protecting your rights, and enjoying your rented abode. Published May 19 2012

  • Do I Have To Take it Back? Auto Recalls.

    Since 1966, almost 300 million cars, trucks, buses, recreational vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds, as well as 43 million tires and 84 million pieces of motor vehicle equipment, including child seats, have been recalled to correct safety defects. YOU have an obligation. Published May 10 2012

  • Workers' Compensation: What you need to know

    Most assume that if they are injured at work, Workers' Compensation will ensure that they are covered medically and their wages will be paid during recuperation. Assume not, or at least, not always. Published May 7 2012

  • Love thy neighbor and his tree

    The Hatfields and the McCoys probably started feuding because one of them ate an apple off of the other’s tree. Here is the law, and some olive branches you can chew on. Published May 2 2012

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Paul Samakow

Paul Samakow

Attorney Paul Samakow, a native Washingtonian, has been a Plaintiff’s trial lawyer since 1980, with offices in Maryland and Virginia. He handles injury claims, exclusively. Mr. Samakow is a noted speaker and lecturer, and currently is the legal analyst ...

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