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Monterey Law Firm L+G, LLP Becomes JRG Attorneys at Law

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Managing Partner Jeff Gilles announced today that L+G, LLP, Attorneys at Law, will change the name of the law firm to Johnson, Rovella, Retterer, Rosenthal & Gilles, LLP and will be doing business as JRG Attorneys At Law, as of Dec. 1, 2017.

Monterey, CA, Nov. 30, 2017 — Managing Partner Jeff Gilles announced today that L+G, LLP, Attorneys at Law, will change the name of the law firm to Johnson, Rovella, Retterer, Rosenthal & Gilles, LLP and will be doing business as JRG Attorneys At Law, as of Dec. 1, 2017.

“JRG are my initials, and, they are also the initials of all of my partners,” said Gilles in a letter to staff and clients. “I have worked for over 38 years building a practice and relationships that allow for us to be leaders in our community and in our profession. I have also partnered with those that I truly feel will continue to build upon our legacy of teamwork, commitment and excellence.”

Gilles said the formal name for the Limited Liability Partnership will change to Johnson, Rovella, Retterer, Rosenthal & Gilles, LLP, but is asking that friends and colleagues call the firm simply, “JRG Attorneys at Law.”

“My partners Aaron Johnson, Paul Rovella, Jason Retterer, Bob Rosenthal and I are committed to ensuring that our team provides you the very best in legal services and we will always be Experts in Your Field,” Gilles writes in a letter to clients. “I am positive we have the staff, attorneys and experience to provide you the professional advice and consultation you require, now and for many years to come.”

The firm’s website will also be changed, to JRGattorneys.com.

About JRG Attorneys at Law

Jeff Gilles, Managing Partner of JRG Attorneys at Law, started his practice in the 1970s. Since then, he has assembled a team of attorneys and paralegals with offices in downtown Salinas, downtown Hollister, Monterey, as well as services to the South County and Paso Robles areas.

Gilles and his partners, associates, and staff offer legal services ranging from agriculture, business formations and transactions, civil litigation, estate planning, labor and employment, land use, municipal law, planning and zoning, cannabis business, and real estate.

The firm has more than 30 years of experience and more than 30 employees in its offices. For more information about JRG Attorneys at Law, please call (831) 754-2444 or visit JRGattorneys.com.

Contact:

Marci Bracco Cain

Chatterbox PR

Salinas, CA 93901

(831) 747-7455

http://www.JRGattorneys.com

Entertainment, Gaming, Internet & Online, Law, Society

ClaimsHeaven.co.uk Online Game Highlights Issues with Personal Injury Claims Marketing

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Entertaining online consumer siteClaimsHeaven.co.uk has added a new free online game that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the personal injury compensation industry in the UK to their array of claims resources.

If you’ve ever wondered about the personal industry claims market, and whether those adverts promising massive payouts if you have “been injured in an accident at home, at work or on the road” actually encourage a culture where people see being injured as a chance to cash in, then ClaimsHeaven.co.uk has a lot of interesting information and resources that can explain the way this controversial industry works, and help those who need to make genuine compensation claims avoid being ripped off or seduced by the promises of unscrupulous companies.

The latest tool the site offers consumers is a new free online game called Train 2 Claim that “trains” the player to become a better personal injury claimant. It involves the player’s character walking down a typical street with manhole covers and loose paving slabs, and having the ability to move to avoid these potential trip hazards. If you step on them, you’ll fall over, getting more and more injured the more times it happens. When the timer is up, you go and visit a compensation claims company to see how you’ve done. You then get a chance to try again, helping you learn what you need to do to get a bigger payout!

The game, and the supporting information can be found at:

www.claimsheaven.co.uk/games/train2claim.php

As well as being entertaining, it is intended to illustrate the problems in the personal industry claims market in the UK right now, and highlight the methods companies use that could potentially persuade people to make claims. The site is all about supporting legitimate claimants and helping people to understand the pitfalls and scams that exist in the UK claims industry, and aims to present its information through insightful, fun and interesting methods like this game.

Train 2 Claim is free to play through any popular internet browser, and users don’t need to submit any personal details to get access to the game, or any of the other information or games and resources on the site.

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But when will I see Granny?

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Imagine a situation where both parents work and care is divided between both maternal and paternal grandparents. In an ideal world this arrangement would continue after a divorce or separation, but frequently all goodwill breaks down leaving children having to cope with new arrangements and often the loss or deterioration of a relationship with one or both sets of grandparents.

I often get asked ‘but what about my rights?’ by caring grandparents who are desperate to continue a relationship with their grandchildren. The sad, depressing, answer is that grandparents have no automatic right to make an application to the Court for contact or residence, unless the children have been living with them for at least 3 years.

Grandparents have an additional hurdle, of having to first apply to Court for‘leave’ to make an application. This application is sent to both parents, who have the opportunity to oppose, or agree to leave being granted. Only if the Judge is satisfied that it is in the child’s best interest for the application to be granted will the matter move to the next stage when a Judge will consider what, if any contact, there should be between grandparent and grandchild. That contact has to be viewed in context as often the children will be spending time with the ‘other’ parent. Frequently, the Court has to juggle complex arrangements to try to accommodate all members of the family (and the child’s school or social commitments).

The Government applauds grandparents for the vital role they play in shaping a child’s future, providing unpaid childcare so parents can return to work. However, since 1989 successive governments have so far refused to amend the law to provide grandparents the automatic right to make an application to the Court to preserve their unique relationship with grandchildren. Following the Family Justice Review, there has been a recommendation that Grandparents should be included in ‘parenting agreements’ setting out the time that children of separated parents should spend not only with Mum and Dad, but Granny and Grandpa too.

Whilst the judicial system may not be quick to help grandparents, I have used other dispute resolution such as mediation, collaborative law and family conferencing to assist in breaking the deadlock between family members and re-establishing contact.

Contact Details: Written by Juliet Harvey from Greene & Greene Solicitors
T: 01284 717448
E: julietharvey@greene-greene.com
W: http://www.greene-greene.com/

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Entertainment

The Spirit Agency, Novel New Talent and Modeling Agency

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February 14, 2011 – Attorney and entrepreneur Dennis VanDerGinst, has recently opened a new and novel talent and modeling agency, dubbed “The Spirit Agency.” Encouraged and inspired by super-agent, Paul Fisher, VanDerGinst created “Spirit” in order to offer a “safe haven” for talented models and entertainers. “The modeling industry is probably the only entertainment industry that does not have a union available to protect rights of the worker”, said VanDerGinst, “We intend to run our agency as though our models were unionized. We will not allow them to be exploited by clients. We will do our best to ensure they work in a safe environment. We will make sure they are paid fairly and timely. We will be available to offer emotional guidance, legal counsel and financial advice. It is a shame to see young models making lots of money who wind up with nothing later in their careers. We want to do what we can to protect our models and other entertainers.”

VanDerGinst is also the managing partner of VanDerGinst Law, and the national director of American Spirit Pageants. “The Spirit Agency was a natural fit with what we already do”, said VanDerGinst, “We meet lots of talented and beautiful women through the Pageant, and through the law firm we represent many talented people with their business and other legal issues. So, there is a lot of synergy between what we were already doing and what “Spirit” will be offering. As an attorney there are many legal services that I can offer that most agencies cannot.”

One of the novel characteristics of American Spirit Pageants is that is the only national pageant to have fundraising as a judged component in the competition. Likewise, VanDerGinst wants to encourage his talented clients to give back to the community. “I am a firm believer that if you are blessed with gifts such as talent, beauty, business acumen or something else that generates wealth, you have a responsibility to do what you can to help others. We want to make it easy for our clients to do so. We call it our “Role Model” program”, says VanDerGinst, “It is a program designed to identify opportunities for our clients to give back to the community in a way that will enhance their own image, help them from a tax standpoint, make them feel good about themselves, and most importantly assist worthy charitable efforts.”

The Spirit Agency represents female and male models and just about every category of entertainer from anywhere around the world. You can read more about the agency at: http://www.thespiritagency.com

Contact Details:

The Spirit Agency
1705 2nd Ave.
Rock Island
IL. 6120
Phone: 309-793-1234
Fax: 309-793-0538
E-mail: info@thespiritagency.com

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Real Time Press Release Distribution

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In today’s Internet the real time information is already playing a significant role in how businesses and people access and consume the information online. Technologies online have emerged up to the point where 2 minutes may sometimes be the difference between having tens of thousands of people not only seen your PR announcement, but creating a long tail of reactions across the vast real time online space adding up to your overall online presence/reputation and your message being buried down among millions of other identical pieces of information.

Considering how crucial the real time information for the average business and web user appears to be, one can only imagine how great the impact of the real time information flow over the public relations business online can be.

That’s why we think it is about time for RealTimePressRelease.com — real time press release distribution online.

In a nutshell RealTimePressRelease.com is a do-it-yourself publishing platform for real time press release distribution. It’s free and you can instantly have your press release published on RealTimePressRelease.com as well as released via the Web, the Blogosphere and the Twitter. Having spent almost 2 decades within the PR industry, and currently engaged with EPR Network, one of the largest press release distribution networks online, it’s been just a matter of time for us to realize how vital a real time press release distribution service online is.