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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

Singles Event
Posted by: Mitch Short
January 29, 2010
Topic: Events

Singles Event with Michael Sawaya the most eligible Bachelor to be in the Bachelor Auction

Don't miss it!!! Denver Singles Expo 2010

This Saturday, January 30 from 1pm to Midnight at the Marriott Denver Tech Center, located at 4900 S. Syracuse Street Denver, CO.

Halloween Free Cab Ride Program
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
October 28, 2009
Topic: Auto Accidents

If you are planning to go out this Halloween in Denver, and have a few drinks with some friends, it is your responsibility to arrange for a safe way to get home. We would like to help.
If you have had too much to drink, or you have any doubt, call a cab and send the bill to us!

Colorado Accident & Injury Law Part IX:Appropriate Prejudgment Interest on a Judgment in an Insured Motorist Case
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
October 01, 2009
Topic: Auto Accidents

The Supreme Court in the case of USAA v. Parker, O7SC524 upheld the Court of Appeals ruling in USAA v. Parker, P.3d , No. 05CA2361, 05CA2569, slip op. (Colo. App. May 3, 2007), that the "personal injury statute" controls the calculation of prejudgment interest in such cases and thus Petitioner USAA...

Colorado Accident & Injury Law Part VIII: Supreme Court Clarification Application of The Doctrine of Sudden Emergency
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
September 18, 2009
Topic: Auto Accidents

•· The Supreme Court in the case of Hesse v. McClintic, 06SC624 on January 14, 2008 gave a pronouncement on the defense of sudden emergency that establishes a standard not heretofore stated by the Colorado appellate courts.

Colorado Accident & Injury Law Part VII: Collateral Source Issue & The Issue of Valuing Medical Bills
Posted by: Michael Sawaya
September 09, 2009
Topic: Auto Accidents

This has been an issue of great importance to Plaintiffs' counsel since the demise of the No-Fault Statute in 2003.
Some District Court Judges had ruled that the Plaintiff was entitled to submit the amount of medical billings as the appropriate evidence, even if less had been actually paid by an insurer, while other Judges ruled that, if there had been payment by an insurer, the Plaintiff would be limited to submitting the amounts actually paid by that insurer.