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What is Injuryboard blog network, and what is an injury law blog? (About Virginia Beach, Norfolk-Portsmouth, and Northeast NC Injuryboard blogs)



Virginia (VA) Personal Injury Lawyers
Offices in VA Beach, Hampton & Elizabeth City, NC  

What is Injuryboard?

What’s an injury law blog?

Our injury lawyers serve as lawyer-editors for three regional injury law blogs:

A blog is an internet based forum to write about and discuss a topic, and of course we focus on personal injury law for the injured. Injuryboard is an official injury law news source of Google news and other internet news portals.

This means every week of the year our lawyers read and research on injury law, and regularly write and edit articles on injury law, including information about our injury trial experiences. Our clients are re-assured that we are constantly staying up to date on injury law trends and precedents.

InjuryBoard is the largest coordinated injury law blog network in the United States, a consistently growing community of personal injury law firms, attorneys, safety experts, and consumer advocates committed to making a difference by helping people avoid injury, and helping those who are injured get the assistance they need to move on with their lives after an accident. Along with its national safety and injury news reporting team, InjuryBoard.com provides visitors with up-to-date regional safety and injury news, along with legal analysis from its nationwide network of approximately 500 injury attorneys and at nearly 100 different law firms.


Over 23,000 regional blog articles have been posted on Injuryboard as of early 2009. The national news desk has over 3,000 news posts as of early 2009 also. There are nearly 100 active Injuryboard regional law firms, with a total of about 500 lawyer-editors registered as well (as of 3/1/09).

Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton is proud to be part of the Injuryboard regional blog network, which provides helpful current safety information, and our involvement is one small way we contribute to improved health and safety of consumers and clients we represent.

We also are proud to publish our own blog network. Our blogs focus on three areas: (1) types of injuries our clients have suffered and that we have handled in court. (2) particular areas in Virginia, and (3) attorney-focused blogs. Feel free to peruse these blogs below:

Practice Area Law Blogs:
Our trucking blog focuses exclusively on truck safety and accident issues inVirginia.
Our medical malpractice blog highlights the most frequent medical mistakes and laws inVirginiaandNorth Carolina.
This blog focuses on railroad worker accidents and FELA (Federal Employers Liability Act) law.
Losing a loved one in a sudden accident can be a traumatic and heartbreaking experience. Our attorneys are here to help the family members and loved ones through this difficult time by taking some of the burden off their shoulders. Let us handle the paperwork and haggling with the defendant’s insurance company so you can focus on getting through the grieving process.
When a victim suffers a traumatic brain injury, their life can be changed forever. This is why we fight so hard to get TBI victims proper compensation since they may require a lifetime of care and rehabilitation.
Geographic-focus Law Blogs:
OurEastern Shore,Virginiablog puts a spotlight on health and safety topics of interest for residents of Accomack,CapeCharles,TangierIsland, and otherEastern Shoretowns.
Focused on accident victims in Hampton, Virginia.
Focused on accident victims in Newport News, Virginia.
Focused on accident victims in Norfolk, Virginia.
Focused on accident victims in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Focused on accident victims in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Focused on accident victims in Suffolk, Virginia.
Focused on accident victims in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Focused on accident victims throughout the Commonwealth.
Focused on accident victims throughout North Carolina.
Attorney-focus Blogs:
Randy Appleton has been practicing personal injury law for close to 30 years. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and is a past president of the Portsmouth Bar Association. Member of the Primerus International Society of Law Firms
Jim Lewis is recognized as a Virginia “Super Lawyer” (since 2009) and a “Best Lawyer” for personal injury law since 2008. Jim has been practicing injury law for nearly 30 years.


Rick Shapiro is recognized as a Virginia “Super Lawyer” (since 2010) and a “Best Lawyer” for personal injury law since 2008. He has been practicing injury law for over 20 years.


Kevin Duffan is a member of the Virginia Bar Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, the I'Anson-Hoffman American Inn of Court, the Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association, and the Virginia Beach Bar Association where he serves as a committee chair. Kevin is also a volunteer reader for the REACH program in Norfolk.
Emily Brannon is a member of the American Association for Justice, the Virginia Bar Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Beach Bar Association and the Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association. Member, CLASS program Virginia Beach Bar Association, Member National Crime Victims Bar Association




How can you identify a top Virginia injury lawyer for your case? Look no further.

Our VA personal injury lawyers have been selected for many accolades.

Two of the attorneys with our Virginia Beach accident injury law firm, James Lewis and Rick Shapiro, have been named the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. Two of our VA injury lawyers -- Lewis and Shapiro - have been named to Virginia Super Lawyers for Personal Injury since 2010. In addition, Lewis and Shapiro have been selected for inclusion in the National Million Dollar Advocates Forum since 2009. 

Our VA accident injury law firm was the first in the commonwealth nvited to join Primerus, a select group of highly ethical and respected law firms. Rick Shapiro was named as one of the Top 100 Injury Lawyers in Virginia by the National Trial Lawyers Association.


In October, 2000 our law firm and co-counsel obtained what was then the largest verdict in Virginia's history for an injured person. Our brain damaged client received an initial award of $46 million that rose to $60 million with interest when the defendant abandoned an appeal and agreed to settle. 


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Geographical Areas

Our personal injury lawyers handle personal injury cases throughout the eastern USA, and work closely with lawyers in other states on signficant injury cases.

In Virginia, this includes Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Suffolk, Richmond, Petersburg, Roanoke, Salem, Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, Ashland, Big Stone Gap, and every community on the Eastern Shore, including Accomack, Onancock, Chincoteauge, Wachapreague, and Cape Charles, Bloxom, Eastville, Exmore, Greenbackville, Machipongo, Mappsville, Melfa, Nassawadox, Onley, Tangier, Temperanceville, Wachapreague and Wallops Island.

In West Virginia, we can handle personal injury claims in Bluefield, Beckley, Bridgeport, Charles Town, Charleston, Fairmont, Huntington, Lewisburg, Madison, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Moundsville, Parkersburg, Ripley, Sutton, Weirton, Wheeling and any other town or county.

Injury Lawyers licensed in VA, WV, North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Kentucky (KY), Florida (FL) and Washington, DC.

 





Virginia Beach, VA Personal Injury Attorneys
Virginia (VA) Personal Injury Lawyers
Specializing in Virginia Wrongful Death & Injury Law