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Setliff Law is pleased to announce Kevin Streit is the firm’s newest partner. Kevin, who has been a civil litigator for nearly 25 years, came on board in 2020, and in that time has proven to be one of the hardest working lawyers at the firm. According to Steve Setliff, partner and owner of Setliff Law, “We are proud to add Kevin to the ranks of partner here at Setliff Law. Kevin is as fine a litigator—and trial lawyer—as you…
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For truckers, slang is part of the daily jargon. Whether an “alligator” (piece of trash in the roadway), “chicken coup” (weigh station) or “Bambi” (a deer near the roadway), truckers have their own terms for just about everything related to driving. Ask one about a “dream weaver” and you may see them roll their eyes and shake their heads. A “dream weaver” is a term for an impaired driver, usually evident by weaving between lanes while driving due to being…
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In Virginia when you buy a new mobile home there are two separate transactions and two separate documents evidencing ownership and those ownership documents are recorded by two different government agencies. The mobile home is bought from a manufacturer and because a mobile home is “mobile,” it is personal property, with ownership shown by a title issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, just like a motor vehicle. The land that you install the mobile home on is real property,…
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This article is far from the first and far from the best researched on the subject of AI applications in law. However, given that legal AI companies seem insistent on moving their products into the practice and the courtroom, and that there seems to be a huge motivation on their part to disrupt the legal business-scape, it seems worthwhile to examine how effective AI can be at tackling mankind’s most precise art and most inexact science. We started by feeding…
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An important first question for any defendant who is served with a new lawsuit is whether the court has personal jurisdiction. Essentially, personal jurisdiction gives a court the ability to exercise its authority over a defendant. For a court to have personal jurisdiction, there must be a sufficient connection between the case and the state where the lawsuit is pending. For example, a court will typically have personal jurisdiction if a defendant is an individual who is a resident of…
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Quite a bit, in fact, if you’ve got a calculator handy. As we head towards opening day, there has been quite a bit of buzz about Major League Baseball’s new rules, including the newly expanded bases. The new bases aren’t quite the extra-large pizza boxes you use in your Wednesday night softball league, but they have been expanded from fifteen inches square to eighteen inches square. In addition to providing three more inches between a sliding player’s studs and the…
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To draw upon another gambling metaphor, the towing industry’s already loaded dice are about to be weighted even more in that industry’s favor due to two bills pending in the 2023 session of the Virginia General Assembly that, at the time of this writing, appear destined for passage into law: SB 978 and HB 2392. As the adage “forewarned is forearmed” is nowhere truer than when dealing with those towing operators who take unfair advantage of trucking companies, cargo owners,…
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It always seems to happen on an otherwise easy Tuesday afternoon; you’re finishing up the paperwork for the day when you get a phone call: one of your employees working in another state has hurt himself or been injured on the job. What happens now? If you don’t already cover this in your employee handbook, then the first thing that should happen is to make sure the employee gets medical attention. Make sure you get some sort of report of…
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As you pull into a free space, ready for some rest from the day’s long ride, millions of data points about your drive are being uploaded and saved. Your speed when you thought nobody was looking, captured. The sudden brake you applied when a vehicle cut you off out of nowhere, also captured. You cannot operate a truck without being fully immersed in telematics and data management (also known as fleet tracking), tools that are easily viewed as only making…
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Starting up and running a trucking company is no easy task. There are all the typical headaches that come with operating any business such as the paperwork, insurance, and staffing. Then, there are the ones specific to trucking, such as: Department of Transportation and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration registration requirements; fuel tax requirements; State and Federal compliance regulations compliance; and a mountain of others. So, now that the Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new regulations aimed at reducing emissions…
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