The Pels Law Firm announces a $750,000 class action settlement agreement resolving claims alleging thatJust4Veterans LLC charged unlawful fees to veterans in connection with claims for U.S. Department of VeteransAffairs (“VA”) disability benefits. The settlement is entered into on behalf of the Certified Class which includes U.S. military veterans who have been charged a fee [...]
The Pels Law Firm is pleased to announce that a federal District Court judge in North Carolina certified national class action on behalf of our clients. We represent, along with co-counsel, disabled veterans who we alleged have been illegally and unfairly charged fees by what are colloquially named “claims sharks.” You may read the 28-page [...]
Pels Law Firm, in particular Jon D. Pels, Maria Olsen and Sheri V.G. Fanaroff, recently secured an important litigation victory in a Montana federal wrongful death case against BNSF Railway, where the court refused to grant summary judgment and ruled that the claims must be decided by a jury. The court found that there were [...]
Jon Pels, the award winning founder of The Pels Law Firm, has published a new eBook. This book, entitled "How to Use the Trial Lawyer’s Learned Treatise Exception to Hearsay to Get What You Deserve in Everyday Life", is an approachable guide for both attorneys and non-attorneys that provides techniques for achieving your goals. [...]
Jon Pels obtained a National Class Certification Memorandum Order today against "claims sharks," following oral argument on January 22, 2025. "I am pleased the Court agreed with us and certified this class action, which we brought on behalf of disabled veterans because we believe they are being charged illegal and excessive fees by uncertified individuals. [...]
The Pels Law firm is very proud of our trial team this past week. We had a 5-day jury trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD. A big win for our health care services client defeating the lion's share of a lawsuit with what I will say involved questionable billing practices by the [...]
The Pels Law Firm is pleased to welcome Jason Barnes to our firm. Jason is a Marine Corps veteran and a recent graduate of Syracuse University’s College of Law, with Magna Cum Laude honors. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 2007, Jason received a commission in the Marine Corps and served as a platoon [...]
Pels Law earned a big win this week in the Maryland Court of Appeals for clients in Bethesda against Montgomery County's refusal to grant our clients statutorily mandated credits against the County's "rain tax." Pels Law attorneys Jon Pels and Maria Leonard Olsen have been working on this matter for more than eight years in [...]
The Pels Law Firm has learned that individuals have attempted to impersonate the law firm, sending fake contracts and emails from fake accounts to several people. These fake accounts use "pelslaw" in the name of the email accounts (for example, pelslaw@outlook.com). Pels Law would never send unsolicited contracts or emails to potential clients and the [...]
The Federal Trade Commission is moving forward to attempt to ban employer noncompete agreements nation-wide for most workers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has filed a lawsuit challenging the FTC action. Some states, including Maryland, already have passed legislation to ban or severely limit noncompetition agreements in employee contracts. As of the first of this [...]
Pels Law attorney Maria Leonard Olsen is a member of Phi Delta Phi, the oldest legal organization in continuous existence in the United States, predating even the American Bar Association. It is an international legal society founded in 1869 to foster scholarship, civility, and ethical conduct in the legal profession. Phi Delta Phi is considered [...]
