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Free Santa Photos
Posted by: Kenzie Jones
December 06, 2011
Topic: Events

The Sawaya Law Firm was built and is run on 12 core values, during the month of December we focus on the value of Family. In honor of family during the holidays we invite our clients, staff, and community to The Sawaya Law Firm to meet Santa! Enjoy some refreshments, snacks and even have your family photo taken with Santa for FREE!

Join us and welcome Santa! Enjoy free pictures with Santa, hot cocoa and snacks!

December 10, 2011

1:00 p.m. - 4 p.m.

The Historic Bailey Mansion

1600 Ogden St.

Denver, CO 80218

RSVP Required - Email KJones@SawayaLaw.com OR Call 303.839.1650 ext. 1149

For more information on the 12 core values or the Sawaya Values Awards please click here.

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Waiting for Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits
Posted by: Sara Delashmutt
October 12, 2011
Topic: Social Security Disability

One of the most confusing aspects of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program is the five-month-long waiting period that must be endured before benefits can start being received.

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Working While Drawing Social Security Benefits
Posted by: Sara Delashmutt
October 06, 2011
Topic: Social Security Disability

One of the most-frequently-asked questions about Social Security is "Can I work and still receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits?"

Like all answers to questions about the Social Security Administration (SSA), the answer is a bit complicated. It's 'yes'-as long as you are not engaging in "Substantial Gainful Activity" (SGA).

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How to File for Social Security Disability Benefits
Posted by: Sara Delashmutt
October 03, 2011
Topic: Social Security Disability

If you’re confused by the “red tape” that surrounds Social Security and you need to file for benefits, you may not know or understand how to do so—or what will be expected of you once you do file. If you’ve found yourself in that particular situation, here’s some general information we hope will help.

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Restorative Justice: Restoring Right Relationships through Fairness and Equity
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
October 03, 2011
Topic: Thought for the Day

In the pursuit of fairness, the criminal justice system has recently been using the concept of restorative justice.  Simply put, this idea is that when a crime is committed, society should recognize that more than just property or material loss occurs, but relationships are also destroyed.

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Welcome to our Blog.

When our law firm first started in 1977, computerization of the law office was something none of us even remotely considered. We worked on automobile accident cases, workers compensation cases, product liability cases, medical malpractice, and other injury cases, by hand, and only with the aid of IBM Selectric correcting typewriters and dictation equipment.

By 1980 we had our first word processor and the discovery in the auto accident cases and the other injury cases took a leap forward. That word processor cost us the princely sum of $10,000 and lasted less than a year. By the early 1980s we began investing very heavily to computerize our offices both to streamline our practice and to bring the best legal service that we could. Now we have the burgeoning internet connection of personal computer users that is changing the methods of human communication. It is an exciting time that we embrace as the best of way of continuing what we have tried to do in the forums of the past that reached very limited audiences.

Over the decades our firm had endeavored to bring something back to the community in the form of education and leadership. We support civil rights organizations, we teach at continuing legal education seminars, we work with civic associations, health care associations and many others with the goal of helping others to work through the morass of legal issues and conflicts that inevitably arise in a complex society. We know that much of what lawyers do is hugely misunderstood by the lay public. We also know that even among lawyers there is a lack of understanding of how to handle the cases of automobile accidents, workers' compensation, products liability, medical malpractice, mass torts, drug and medication injuries, and other types of injury events.

Few lawyers understand brain injury cases. Even among the practitioners of the health care field there is a pervasive ignorance of brain trauma and it many difficult and often sad consequences.

The less fortunate are being even less fortunate, and the accident injury victims are often reviled. Large corporations spend vast sums of money to vilify lawyers and the injured workers and injured drivers that dare to bring claims against them. Insurance companies have spent millions upon millions of dollars in mail, media campaigns and political campaigns to mislead the public into believing myths about specific cases and injury cases in general. Legislatures have accepted the propaganda and have passed a plethora of laws in the name of tort reform that can only be called tort deformation. Rights of the innocent victims of accidents and negligence have been lost in the vain and empty gesture of stopping a legal system supposedly out of control. What is most out of control is the rapacious greed of the insurance companies and the corporate executives who have filled their own pockets while stripping the public of its rights in the automobile accident case, the workers compensation case, the medical malpractice case, the products liability case, the unsafe drug and medication case, and the many other types of injury cases that are in some instances of epidemic proportion.

Our large staff of attorneys and support staff will be adding our voice, through the medium of the internet, in the dialogue of protecting, advocating and enforcing our many rights of those injured through the fault of others. Expect our views to be forthright and to the point. If you have any questions that we can answer, please ask us. We will hope to bring you information, strategies and methods that can help you to understand the rights of the injured person. Please stay tuned.

The Sawaya Law Firm
1600 Ogden Street
Denver, CO 80218


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