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Ten Subjects on Law Office Management and Technology
I learned at a recent WVU College of Law Seminar that WV may be the only state where our rule of professional conduct require us to be competent with technology. Most other states “suggest” that we do so. I think that competence requires us to be tech savvy. I was privileged to be asked to… View Article
Preparing Yourself and Your Office For the Future
Why have I not been blogging recently? Here goes: We took a couple long awaited, and I hope well earned, vacations this year. They were not “working vacations” as I have done in prior years where I work and write or edit my writings. But I have done some writing. Here is the article that… View Article
Burt’s Writing Rules (e-mails and memos)
Burt’s Rules These “rules” are not researched or “official” in any sense, but I had very good high school English teachers, the best. In my office, here is what I want, simple and direct. Editor’s note. For the most part, I have omitted quotation marks below, and sorry that I have not yet mastered the… View Article
RURAL DIS-CONNECTIVITY: Part of WV’s Plight
This is a blog article and Complaint to West Virginia Attorney General Consumer Protection Division about the Buckhannon, WV AT&T store. It is a story of two dozen wasted hours, false promises, incompetence, and unconcern for customers. EDITOR’S NOTE 4-28-2018; I am struggling to learn the new editing platform, Gutenberg 101. But, in the interest… View Article
Valuation of Marital Assets
Personal Property Valuation Resources Thank you to our newest employee Courtney Eskew for her research into some of the many personal property valuation websites. Proceed with caution, but when I think that our main source in the early years of my practice was a Sears Catalog, this is a cornucopia. One caveat: you can value… View Article
A 50 Year Retrospective
I won’t be able to say this as well or as concisely as I would like, but here goes. My wife Nancy and I took a vacation last week. A real vacation. Not “a working vacation” where I squeeze in 30 hours of writing, and my wife reads, and we walk the beach and go… View Article
Financial Disclosure in Divorce: Get it Right!
Below is a draft of the form I have begun having my clients read and sign. “Counting and Collecting the Beans” is not easy, but it is essential. Burt Hunter IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY I ________________________________________ declare that I have read Mr. Hunter’s instructions for completing my financial affidavit and our “Equitable Distribution Spreadsheet”. In… View Article
More Organizing the Facts in Your Case: Linking CaseMap, Outlook 365, and Evernote.
I had two new revelations yesterday; one has great potential, and one works now and will be vital to our practice from now on. First, I can install into Microsoft Outlook 365 the “EverNote” and “EverNote Web Clipper” plug-ins and use them to integrate Outlook 365 and the information organizer Evernote. More on that as… View Article
Resources: For My Clients, Potential Clients, Self-Represented, and Colleagues.
/fAs I have explored how to do this job, to innovate, and to share my ideas, I have encountered and even created some useful resources. Here they are: I make the editorial decision to start with my new book first, “Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer: Ideas For Potential Clients, Clients, Friends, Family, Colleagues, Adversaries,… View Article