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Attorney Robert Kraft is now a member of the
National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, and
a member of ElderCounsel. He is also accredited
by the Department of Veterans Affairs. All of
this means attorney Kraft can assist clients who
want to make financial plans to protect their
assets before (or even after) entering a nursing
home. For more information, please contact us.
Attorney Nicole Collier again makes the What's
New page for a presentation she gave to the
Texas Trial Lawyer's Association. This time was
the April Mid-Year Conference in Austin, and the
topic was "The Ethics of Legal Blogs."
Attorney Nicole Collier will be making her "How to Avoid the Grievance Committee"
presentation again on January 13, 2010, to the
North Dallas Bar Association in Dallas. This
presentation was a big hit at the Annual Conference of
the Texas Trial Lawyers Association in Austin,
Texas in December 2009.
Attorney Nicole Collier made a presentation
entitled "How to Avoid the Grievance Committee"
on December 2, 2009, to the Annual Conference of
the Texas Trial Lawyers Association in Austin,
Texas.
Attorney Kathleen Munden will speak in January
2010 at a
consumer bankruptcy seminar produced
by the National Business Institute in Dallas.
The subject of her presentation will be "Chapter
7 -- Step-By-Step Instructions."
Attorney Nicole Collier will be the featured
speaker at the November meeting of the North
Dallas Bar Association. Her topic will be Tips
for Trying a Personal Injury Lawsuit.
Attorney Eugenia Ponce is active in campaigns to
combat AIDS and help the victims of this
disease. On October 11, 2009, she participated
as a volunteer in the AIDS Life Walk. This was a
part of her service in the Community Involvement
Committee of the Dallas Bar Association. At the
Life Walk, Ms. Ponce helped collect toys for the
children of the hundreds of families in the
Dallas area who are affected by AIDS.
October 8, 2009, is our law firms 30th
anniversary. Over those years weve helped
literally tens of thousands of people with their
legal problems, and I am very proud of that. Im
also proud to have worked with some of the best
lawyers and staff anywhere. Fortunately, many of
those great people are still here at Kraft &
Associates. Thank you to all the clients and
employees who have made these 30 years possible.
Attorney Eugenia Ponce of our firm is collecting
old eyeglasses and cell phones to benefit a
shelter for battered women. Please help. Here
are details on the collection efforts:
Eyes & Ears of Texas is
an annual used eye glass and cell phone
drive targeting two things lawyers should
have in spades. Beginning October 12th,
please drop off any used glasses or cell
phones in the box designated for Eyes & Ears
of Texas in the 2nd floor offices of the
Belo. The drive will run until October 23rd.
Eye glass donations will benefit local
charities and cell phones will be donated to
the Dallas Genesis Women's Shelter that
assists battered women. Used cell phones do
not require a battery charger to be donated,
and the Genesis Women's Shelter has all
information and personal data on the phones
(e.g., phone numbers, addresses, etc.)
deleted before the phones are distributed
for emergency use only. Genesis Women's
Shelter provided the attached letter as a
tax receipt for the donation of phones, and
informed us that you may note on the letter
the number of phones donated. If you need a
receipt for eyeglasses, please contact
Thomas or I and let us know; we should be
able to provide receipts once we identify
the charities that will receive the
donations.
Please send an email to your coworkers or
others in your contact list to let them know
of this opportunity. (And if you're able,
help us keep the streak alive of at least
one 1980s bag phone!)
If you have any questions, please call or
e-mail me (214-624-1155, Sean.Urich@ogletreedeakins.com)
or Thomas Anderson (214-413-4008), tanderson@federaltitleinc.com).
We are pleased to announce that Kraft &
Associates can now help our clients with
problems regarding consumer protection law and
bankruptcy. Attorney Kathleen Munden, who has
been representing consumers for me than 13
years, has joined our firm. Ms. Munden has filed
more than 700 bankruptcy petitions in her
career, and has counseled many clients who have
been able to avoid bankruptcy by following her
advice.
We invite you to call us with any any questions you
have about creditor harassment, such as repeated
phone calls, threatening letters, or attempts to
collect debts you do not owe; inaccuracies on
your credit report; problems with your mortgage
company; or Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
On Saturday March 7, 2009, attorney Eugenia
Ponce will give a seminar about immigration and
citizenship issues. The presentation will be at
the Irving Central Public Library at 2:00 in the
afternoon. Admission is free, but seating is
limited so please arrive early. A question and
answer segment will follow the formal
presentation. The address is 801 West Irving
Blvd., Irving, Texas 75060. For more
information, please call us at (214) 999-9999.
On January 29, 2009, Robert Kraft gave a
presentation on Internet Social Networking for
Lawyers to the International Women's Insolvency
& Restructuring Confederation. The presentation
was at the Haynes & Boone law firm in Dallas.
Robert Kraft was asked this question for the
November issue of
Texas Lawyer: How will the presidential
election effect your law practice? Here is his
response:
I don't worry too much
about myself or my firm, but I do worry
about my clients and their families. We
practice in three main areas personal
injury, Social Security disability, and
immigration.
If Senator McCain wins, we will see a
continuation of the Bush administration's
policies regarding injury and disability.
These policies, in my opinion, have eroded
the rights of injured citizens through "tort
reform," medical malpractice caps, medical
device and pharmaceutical limitations, and
many other such areas.
If Senator Obama wins, I believe we will see
a modest return to the consumer viewpoint,
rather than the big business and insurance
company viewpoint. Senator Obama is not as
liberal as I would prefer in these areas,
but he is much more inclined than Senator
McCain to tilt the playing field back toward
level.
As for immigration, I believe both
candidates have fairly enlightened
viewpoints, although I believe again that
Senator Obama is more inclined to support a
reasonable and comprehensive reform of our
immigration policies. Senator McCain seems
to be bound to his base's viewpoint of
"close the borders first, and then we can
talk about reform." That's unrealistic,
because we can never totally close the
borders, and therefore we would never get to
the reform part of the agenda.
On October 8, 2008, attorney Eugenia Ponce made
a presentation to teenage students of the Irma
Rangel Young Women's Leadership School. This is a
magnet school of the Dallas Independent School
District, and is located on Robert B. Cullum
Blvd. in Dallas. The students who attended the
presentation are interested in becoming
attorneys.
The presentation covered such topics as the exam
required for admission to law school, the law
school experience, law school tests, the bar
exam, and the various practice areas available
to lawyers in Texas.
Robert A. Kraft has completed his latest legal
self-help book, titled Nine Fatal Mistakes
Social Security Disability Claimants Make (and
how you can avoid making them). This book is
available for purchase at Amazon.com. But if you
are a resident of Texas, you can contact our law
firm for a free copy.
Robert A. Kraft was quoted in a
story about Social Security disability
on the Web site Lawsuit.com. Mr. Kraft discussed
some simple ways applicants can improve their
chances of having benefits granted.
Kraft & Associates teamed up with TV station
Azteca America to host an event at the Dallas
Zoo in May 2008. We saw a lot of our old clients
at the zoo and we were able to hand out
important educational material to many zoo
visitors who had questions about personal
injury, Social Security disability, and
immigration.
Attorney Eugenia
Ponce has written an article for the prestigious
Texas Lawyer newspaper in May 2008. The article
concerns
new laws and procedures regarding
international adoptions.
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and
Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country
Adoption (the convention) is designed to combat
child abduction, sale and trafficking, as well
as to protect the best interests of children,
birthparents and prospective adoptive parents.
It became effective in the United States on
April 1.
Kraft & Associates is proud to announce that
attorney Eugenia Ponce has joined our firm's
immigration department.
Ms. Ponce was raised in Brownsville,
Texas. She received her college degree
from SMU in Dallas, and then went to the
John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
After graduating from law school, Ms.
Ponce clerked for two federal judges in
South Texas and then returned to school
to receive her Masters in Law from the
University of Texas School of Law in
Austin. Her Masters degree was in
International Law.
Before becoming a member of Kraft &
Associates, Ms. Ponce
worked as an attorney in a large Dallas
immigration firm. Ms. Ponce has
experience in family-based immigration
and employment-based immigration, as
well as other areas of U.S. Immigration
Law.
Attorney Joseph Morrison was quoted in the May
2007 edition of the Journal of the American Bar
Association. The article is regarding the new
law that will allow veterans to hire lawyers for
disability claims. The article states:
Joseph Morrison, a lawyer in Dallas who now largely does Social
Security disability and personal injury work, is
anticipating the possibility of taking referrals
from local veterans service organizations
looking to reduce their caseloads and pass along
particularly challenging cases to private
attorneys.
"These veterans service organizations do a great job, especially
here in Texas. We've got a strong network,"
Morrison says. "We just want to work beside
them, to really complement the work they're
doing, in no way supplanting them."
Attorney Dilnaz Saleem and her assistant Sara
Johnson will be hosting a semi-monthly radio
talk show beginning March 11, 2007, and
continuing on alternating weeks. The show is
called "Immigration Information" and
it will be broadcast on radio station 104.9
Sunday mornings from 10:00 to 11:00. We invite
anyone with immigration questions to contact us
or tune in to the show and call in your
questions there.
Kraft &
Associates is proud to say that attorney Nicole
Collier has won her last three trials, all
against Allstate Insurance Company, and all
involving automobile collisions. This is
excellent in Dallas county, where plaintiffs
usually don't fare well at the courthouse.
Immigration attorney Dilnaz A.
Saleem will make a presentation on current and
proposed immigration laws to the North Dallas
Bar Association March 13, 2007. The topics will
be what every lawyer needs to know about
immigration laws. The presentation will be at
Brookhaven Country Club at 6:30 in the evening.
Admission is limited to members of the North
Dallas Bar Association and their guests.
Immigration attorney Dilnaz A.
Saleem will make a presentation on current and
proposed immigration laws. The event will occur
Saturday January 13, 2007, from 4:00 p.m. To
5:00 p.m. at the East Branch of the Irving,
Texas Public Library. Admission is free.
Kraft & Associates is pleased to
announce that we have now added Immigration Law
to the range of services we offer our clients.
Our Immigration Department team includes:
Ms. Dilnaz A. Saleem -- our tri-lingual (English,
Hindi, Urdu)
immigration law attorney. She practiced
Immigration Law at a large immigration law firm before
joining us. Ms. Saleem has handled hundreds of
immigration cases to date and would like to help
you with your immigration questions and issues.
Ms. Sara Johnson -- our tri-lingual (English, Spanish,
Russian) Immigration Assistant. Ms. Johnson
attended the American Immigration Lawyers
Association annual conference in June 2006,
along with Mr. Kraft, to get
the most up-to-date information on Immigration
Laws and Reforms.
Press
Release: Kraft & Associates
gets Social Security disability benefits for
fibromyalgia patient.
Kraft &
Associates is proud to announce that attorney
Joseph Morrison has joined our firm. Mr.
Morrison represents claimants in Social Security
disability claims, and will be a valuable
addition to our Social Security department.
In August 2005, Robert Kraft
was appointed to a membership on the Lawyers
Marketing Committee of the American Association
for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial
Lawyers of America).
According
to a press
release issued by the Social Security
Administration July 26, 2005, new regulations
will enable clearly disabled claimants to
receive favorable decisions in as little as
three weeks. That would be such an enormous
change from the current sad situation that it's
very hard to believe. We'll know more after the
full regulations are released and closely
examined.
July 2005 -- Federal
Judge Eldon D. Fallon holds a pre-trial
conference regarding approximately 1100 Vioxx
cases, which have been consolidated into the
U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana in New
Orleans. Judge Fallon states the first of those
Vioxx cases may be ready for trial in November
2005.
Guidant
Corporation announces recall of dangerous
pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac
Defibrillators.
Robert
Kraft has article published in Texas Reporter
Viagra
usage may cause blindness
FDA
checks into possibility of epilepsy drug-suicide
link
FDA
Tells Pfizer to Suspend Sales of Bextra April 7,
2005
Another
Reason Not To Drink And Drive
Kraft &
Associates is proud to announce that attorney
Eric Martin has joined our firm. Mr. Martin
represents claimants in personal injury claims.
He has tried more than 40 cases to jury
verdict, and will be a valuable addition to our
Litigation department.
Allstate
Insurance to Pay $60 Million in Refunds to Texas
Homeowners
Robert Kraft has been elected President of the
North Dallas Bar Association for the 2004-2005
year.
More
Proof That Capping Damages Does Not Lower
Malpractice Insurance Premiums.
A recent
study indicates that women who used Prempro,
Premarin, or Provera for extended periods of
time, may have an increased risk of breast
cancer and other illnesses. If you used any of
these drugs and have been diagnosed as having
cancer or lupus, or if you have suffered a
stroke or blood clots, please contact our office
to see if we can help you.
Allstate
insurance company agrees to pay $3.44 million in
refunds to 23,000 Texans who paid more on claims
for vehicle repairs than was required under
their policies.
Kraft
& Associates is proud to announce that
attorney Nicole D. Collier has joined our firm.
Ms. Collier accepts legal matters in the fields
of Personal Injury, Criminal Law, Family Law,
and Workers' Compensation Law. Please contact us
if you have a legal question in any of those
areas.
Despite passage of Proposition 12, medical
malpractice insurance companies are raising
rates for Texas doctors.
New study shows Texas Supreme Court is turning
its back on consumers.
Texas newspapers urge citizens to vote NO on
Proposition 12 September 13, 2003. Dallas
Morning News, Houston
Chronicle, Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
Study
shows that medical malpractice damage caps do
not result in lower medical malpractice
insurance premiums
Get
the real facts on the Texas insurance crisis
here: www.fixtexasinsurance.org
Homeowners insurance questions? Visit these
informative Web sites: www.helpinsure.com,
www.insuretexas.org
and a Dallas Morning News article
Robert
Kraft admitted to practice before Supreme Court
of the United States
Ford
Taurus and Mercury Cougar recalled for brake
pedal problems
Fatal
Mistakes Social Security Disability Claimants
Make
Baycol
Recall - Side Effects and Symptoms
Jeep
Grand Cherokee Being Investigated for Gearshift
Defect
Ford
Recalls All Firestone Wilderness AT Tires
Firestone
Tire Defect Information
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Replacement Recall
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