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		<title>Birmingham area air quality improves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gathings Law</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[air quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the American Lung Association released its latest air quality report: State of the Air 2012. The annual report looks at a range of air quality issues for communities across the nation. And this year there are signs that the work to help protect the citizens of the Birmingham area is making a difference.  Gathings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A flurry of recent product recalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clorant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April has been a busy month for recalls and warnings from the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. The sheer number of the recalls is amazing and becomes downright scary when you start to look at the serious injuries that some of these products can cause. Bicycles (ranging from cheap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally a bailout for homeowners in the foreclosure crisis!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clorant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another wave of relief is on the horizon to help stop foreclosures and to soften the devastation caused by wrongful foreclosures. The United States and a group of individual states are close to signing a monumental agreement with the major foreclosure players to set aside $17 BILLION dollars for those who lost their homes, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$2.5 MILLION fine against Asset Acceptance!</title>
		<link>http://gathingslaw.com/blog/2-5-million-fine-against-asset-acceptance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clorant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s how much Asset Acceptance, a huge bottom feeder in the debt collections world, just got nailed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for unfair debt collection practices!  Just weeks after the appointment of a director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington sends another booming signal that it is getting serious about hammering debt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollution and Bellwether Trials!</title>
		<link>http://gathingslaw.com/blog/pollution-and-bellwether-trials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd Gathings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My partner and I just returned from a seminar presented by the American Bar Association in Hollywood, Florida. Two of the topics at the seminar were environmental torts and the selection and trial of bellwether cases.  Our firm is very much involved in these areas, representing thousands of clients for both property damage from pollution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new era for consumer protection?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clorant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Birmingham hosted an event that marked what could be the beginning of a new era of consumer protections. That event was the first ever field hearing for the the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and received national press in the wake of Obama&#8217;s back door appointment of Richard Cordray as its director. The CFPB  brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA holds meetings today about pollution in North Birmingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd Gathings</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[air quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another impact of pollution in Birmingham is on display today as the EPA holds a series of meetings today at Hudson K-8 School.  Contaminated soil was recently found around the newly built school and around homes in the North Birmingham neighborhood.  That finding prompted Walter Coke to pay for the soil to be replaced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama Consumer Lawyers is now social</title>
		<link>http://gathingslaw.com/blog/alabama-consumer-lawyers-is-now-social/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clorant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama Consumer Lawyers wanted to make it easier for people looking for consumer lawyers to find us, so we have ventured into social networks.  You can reach us on Facebook and Twitter and of course here on www.alabamaconsumerlawyers.com.  Please let us know how we can help you if you are dealing with a foreclosure, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work Injuries Are All-Too-Often Deadly!</title>
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		<comments>http://gathingslaw.com/blog/work-injuries-are-all-too-often-deadly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd Gathings</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crushing injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grimace to think how many widows and fatherless children I have represented over the years because of work related deaths. Fires and crushing injuries seem to have been the leading causes in the cases I have handled. The cause has little meaning, however, in view of the destruction to the family when this happens. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Paperless (Almost) Lawyer</title>
		<link>http://gathingslaw.com/blog/the-paperless-almost-lawyer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd Gathings</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[complex litigation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[toxtic torts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historically, paper documents have been as closely linked to lawyers as &#8220;white on rice&#8221;. The link was so strong that in the &#8217;70&#8242;s a movie about law school students was aptly named &#8220;Paper Chase&#8221;. Practicing lawyers&#8217; offices and desks were piled high with paper, and the piles got higher and higher with the invention of [...]]]></description>
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