Each year, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys (VADA) and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (VTLA) honors two attorneys with an award for maintaining the utmost level of integrity, civility, and professionalism. The VADA selects a plaintiff’s attorney as a recipient for the award, while the VTLA chooses a defense attorney also to receive the award. Last month, our esteemed…
Everyone at Shevlin Smith is pleased to congratulate attorney Thomas G. Smith for being selected as the 2019 Lawyer of the Year for the Metropolitan DC Area. Attorney Smith received this prestigious award for his work in the field of plaintiff’s medical malpractice. The award for Lawyer of the Year for the Metropolitan DC Area is given out by Best…
Attorney Michael J. Shevlin has prided himself on fighting for his clients, and has earned numerous victories in the form of settlements and verdicts that have recovered millions on their behalf. This has led to a number of awards and accolades that he has accumulated throughout his career. It is with great pleasure we announce yet another accomplishment, as Michael…
The Million dollar Advocates Forum is recognized as one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States. The organization was found in 1993. Fewer than 1% of U.S. attorneys are members. Michael Shevlin has been certified as a life member of this forum. Read More About Michael Shevlin Named to Million Dollar Advocates Forum…
Distracted driving in Fairfax has steadily grown over the past few years, causing an alarmingly high number of accidents. In the past three years, over 3,350 accidents attributed to driver distraction have occurred throughout the county. As a result, the Fairfax County Police Department decided to put additional focus on distracted driving awareness by holding its first ever driver distraction…
In honor of National Distracted Driving Awareness month, the state of New Jersey began a special effort to implement the nationwide “UDrive, Utext, UPay” campaign, starting on April 1. This campaign, which may be spreading to D.C. very soon, aims to help decrease the alarmingly frequent distracted driving accidents that continue to cause injuries and claim lives. Rising accident rates—and…
Everyone knows the feeling you get when you try to hold your breath for too long: your heart begins to race, you feel dizzy, your chest hurts, and depending on how long you hold it, you may even pass out in order to conserve necessary oxygen needed for your brain cells. However, once that stored oxygen is used up, your…
If you’ve ever had the experience of driving over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, you won’t be surprised that it was named the ninth scariest bridge in the world by Travel and Leisure magazine. The five-mile journey from Anne Arundel to Queen Anne’s County can be incredibly nerve-racking, especially during bad weather. When storms roll over the Chesapeake, visibility becomes almost…
At one point or another, we’ve all hurt ourselves, but figured the injury wasn’t bad enough or didn’t hurt enough to seek medical attention. Unfortunately, some military veterans don’t get the treatment they need—not by choice, but because they don’t know they have a problem. Virginia is the proud home of nearly 825,000 military veterans, the seventh-highest population in the…
If you’ve seen the motion picture Avatar, you’ll know that the alien race, the Na’vi, used the ends of their braids as basic USB ports to communicate and control objects. This same basic premise has recently started to make headway in the research of spinal cord treatments. A study, published in this year’s Nature Communication, suggests that a computer chip…