As I sit here watching the snowflakes fly outside my office window, I am reminding myself that it is baseball season. I always look forward to hearing that the teams (the Pirates in particular) are heading to Florida in preparation for the upcoming season. I don’t know if that’s because I know that is a […]

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Unfair debt collection practices continue to plague our region. Many of our clients have experienced harassing phone calls; demands for payments not truly owed; illegal threats of bogus consequences for failing to pay, up to and including imprisonment; or lawsuits to collect stale debts that are barred by the applicable statute of limitations. These abuses are […]

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April is World Autism Awareness Month and, as you may have seen on our Facebook page, last Tuesday members of the Bordas & Bordas firm proudly wore blue in support of World Autism Awareness Day. Autism affects an estimated 1 in 45 children nationally and is one of the fastest-growing developmental disabilities. Advocacy groups such as […]

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I have recently read an article about a woman named Celeste Erlach who wrote her husband a letter asking for help raising their two small children, a baby and toddler. Apparently, this letter went viral. In her letter she went into detail about needing some rest but wasn’t getting help from her husband as he […]

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In today’s world, a potential applicant needs to be 18-years of age before they can apply for a commercial driver’s license. Depending on the applicant, this could lead to a young, inexperienced and potential unprepared driver being permitted to get behind the wheel of a large commercial motor vehicle. A new bill aimed at allowing […]

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In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for President; she was the first woman in the United States to run, and her party was called the Equal Rights Party. She couldn’t even vote for herself, however, since it was nearly 50 years before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote. Not only […]

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God first announced His plan for sending a savior in the garden of Eden. When Adam sinned, God promised to send someone to “crush” the wily serpent and to provide a final remedy for sin. Again and again the prophets repeated this promise.  But the savior would not come as a conquering hero. No, the prophets said he […]

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Over the years a debate has ensued between Fleet Owners about the necessity to install inward and outward facing cameras on all commercial tractor trailers. Safety directors have become proponents of installing these cameras, believing they are vital tools for commercial drivers going forward, outweighing any privacy or other concerns drivers and/or Fleet Owners may […]

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March is Women’s History Month. We celebrate the lives of remarkable women, both the well-known and those whose stories have been largely forgotten. One such woman is Jo Ann Robinson, a largely unsung heroine who played a key role in the historic 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was born on April 17, […]

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Legislation introduced by Congressman Alex Mooney (R-WV-2), and being considered in a U.S. House of Representatives Committee this week, would exempt attorneys and law firms from rules designed to protect West Virginians from abusive debt collection practices. As attorneys we know that this legislation is tragically misguided. H.R. 5082, the Practice of Law Technical Clarification […]

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