Biker Lawyer Norman Gregory Fernandez and Jay Leno

Well the year 2010 is turning out to be a real interesting time for me in my life. Along with getting hitched in January, and upgrading my Electra Glide, this year is turning out to be a significant year for me.

I am completing the process of opening an office in Palmdale, CA which will handle not only Personal Injury, Family Law, and Civil Litigation, but I am staffing the office to be a pre-litigation hub along with my Norwalk, CA office.

Once Palmdale is completed and staffed, pre-litigation for Personal Injury for the entire State of California will be handled out of two offices. This will be a good thing for my car accident, motorcycle accident, truck accident, motor vehicle accident, slip and fall, and other personal injury clients.

We just completed the first phase of upgrading our telephone system. As always new clients can call 800-816-1529 x. 1, 7 days per week, 24 hours per day, to speak to an attorney and get a free consultation on your case. Our aim is to have an attorney on call all of the time for new clients.

We are also planning on revamping our websites, so that they are compatible with the new XML standards, and so that they are more streamlined.

This blog, the Biker Law Blog, will also change software platforms as well to ensure its continued success into the future. With about 1 million hits per month, this blog is successful beyond my wildest dreams. I conceived this blog as a way to discuss motorcycle legal, safety, and other issues, as well as discuss rides and other off topic articles. The Biker Law Blog has instead become a trusted source of information in the motorcycle community worldwide.

We have gone green as well. I have been one of the legal industry pioneer’s when it comes to the paperless office. I wrote a ground breaking article on the subject early in 1999 which was published in Law Office Computing Magazine. From that article, Los Angeles Lawyer magazine, in 1999, and California Lawyer Magazine in 2000, wrote stories about my efforts to go paperless. These articles were mentioned in other publications as well.

Before I became an attorney, I was a Senior Tele/Data Communications Engineer for various manufacturers, and had the opportunity to be on the cutting edge of technology. This expertise has allowed me to utilize technology within my own firm to not only cut cost for my clients, but to help save the environment as well.

By digitizing our documents, we save countless trees, which helps save the environment. By utilizing services like Court Call whenever possible, we help to reduce carbon emissions, by telecommuting to Court. There is no reason to waste paper and ink anymore.

We are not only trying to help the environment, but we are set up to cater to our clients. You see we come to our clients instead of making our clients come to us. As a matter of fact, in many cases the only time our clients ever have to come into our office is to pick up their settlement check if they do not want to wait for the mail. We use cutting edge technology to communicate with our clients, thus saving them money by reducing our overhead.

There are many law firms out there that will charge you anywhere from $300 to $1,500 and up just for basic costs and expenses on personal injury cases that settle pre-litigation. Heck, some firms even charge an administrative fee to handle property damage. This, excuse my French is bullshit!

My clients know that we are straight shooters. My firm has no “Minimum” expense charge. We only charge actual costs and expenses, which we try to keep as low as possible so that you get more money in your pocket.

We handle personal injury property claims for our personal injury clients “FOR FREE.” There is no so-called administrative fee for handling property claims in my office and there never will be.

If you are selling yourself short by going to a personal injury firm that takes a cut out of your property claim you are a fool!

Heck, call us now, we will help you to switch your case over to our law firm.

This year is a season of changes in my life; it is an exciting time for me one day at a time.

On the motorcycle front, I have purchased a couple of pairs of slip on mufflers, and am going to experiment in the next couple of weeks, as to which pair I will keep on. Right now I am running Screaming Eagles with a Stage 1 setup.

I have also decided to upgrade the stereo system on my Harley Davidson Electra Glide from the Harley Davidson Advanced Sound System, to an aftermarket solution with will enable me to integrate MP3, WMV, AAC and other digital formats directly into the head unit, as well as high definition tuning for the radio, Satellite Radio, direct iPod control, BlueTooth, and the ability to directly address a USB mass storage device from the head unit.

The reason for the sound system upgrade is because I am a long distance rider. So far in the last month I have rode the Yuma Prison Run, and the Laughlin River Run. Next month I am riding to Yosemite, Carson City, NV, and Lake Tahoe with some friends. My wife and I will be riding to Sturgis, SD for the biggest motorcycle rally in the world, Sturgis. (When I get to the rallies I will walk up to my so-called Motorcycle Lawyer competition who will be in booths, and laugh at them as usual. None of them actually ride; losers~~~anyway….)

It will be nice to not only be able to enjoy my entire music library while on the road, but also be to listen to quality satellite radio even in the middle of the desert.

So there it is for now, a season of change. I look forward to sharing new and exciting things with all of you soon.

By California Biker Attorney and Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq., © 2010