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What’s Important In Life
For over four decades, I have worked with people during some of their darkest times; recovering from injury or loss, their worlds falling down around them, or after destroying their own lives and their families’ with stupid mistakes. Above even that are the myriad crises and challenges of one’s own life and family. I… View Article
Annual Review 2020
This time last year I published “Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer”, a 300 page distillation of 1400 pages and 360 blog articles written during a period of ten years. www.hunterlawfirm.net For the next 30 days, I will select and publish each day, two of those articles, which are also chapters in my book. I… View Article
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: And My Struggles with DirectTV and AT&T
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 dozens of wasted hours, false promises, incompetence, and unconcern for customers. EDITOR’S NOTE 7-17-2020. The SAGA CONTINUES Today I listened to an NPR interview of a parent desperate to… 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