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What You May Not Know of the Legal Profession
I attend each year two two day long seminars put on by the West Virginia Association for Justice, formerly WVTLA, WV Trial Lawyers Association. That’s a foundation of 36 hours of continuing education. Add to that 8 hours of family law, of mediation, and other subject areas, and I spend around a week a year working… View Article
A Few Thoughts on Law Office Technology
Technology is a “two-edged sword”. It can be a time waster. It is easy for someone like me to “gamify” technology, so the very acts of using it and learning from it provide surges of dopamine pleasure which divert me from the actual boring tasks at hand. And, social media has a “siren’s song”. It is serious work… View Article
Global Warming: How the Environmental Movement Has Botched It!
This is my “take” on the environmental movement and its emphasis on “Global Warming”. To me that approach is self-defeating. I read a lot of things that touch on environmentalism but are not so labeled. I follow the news carefully but greatly miss my weekly Time and Newsweek which helped give me perspective. Nevertheless, I average… View Article
Document Assembly for the Busy Non-Nerdy Lawyer: Pathagoras
This articles is targeted to other lawyers, particularly family law, but it also give insights to potential clients, or even judges, of how our office produces so much so quickly. I am writing about the “document assembly” application Pathagoras. It is available as a free, full featured, 90 day trial download: www.pathagoras.com Caveat: the “master… View Article
OUR SUPER-HELPFUL WEBSITE: WWW.HUNTERLAWFIRM.NET
We are happy to announce that we have made life easier for you! Of course, if you are part of the <1% who will explore every tab and button, who wants to know where I went to school and details about my practice areas, that stuff is still there. But “the good stuff” lies under… View Article
30 SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL INJURY CLAIM
Starting with Ronald Reagan, and later Carl Rove, common perceptions of our civil justice system have hardened into negativity. Injury victims are treated like they are pariahs. But they are just like you and I. But here are some real, simple, facts: Good lawyers will always “push the envelope”, so some personal injury claims will… View Article
Unbundling of Legal Services (A Low Cost Alternative)
The poor and people of moderate income have great difficulty in obtaining legal services in WV. Something like 70% of litigants in family court are “pro-se” or self-represented. For awhile WV was in the dark ages. There was an ethics opinion that lawyers couldn’t even “ghost write”, or assist a party from behind, without becoming… View Article
THE SECRETS OF WINNING, Number II
(Cont. from ‘THE SECRETS TO WINNING’ Custody of your Child: This article is written primarily for the large majority of divorcing parents who cannot stay together but who love their children. It is the second half of my thoughts started with my previous article, ” THE SECRETS TO ‘WINNING’ CUSTODY OF YOUR CHILD”: http://wp.me/p4utce-Go HERE… View Article