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January 2, 2016

The Year 2015 in Retrospect – Learning – Teaching – Thinking – Collaborating

I am pleased that this blog is being seen by more young lawyers and people seeking ideas on what it’s like to survive and thrive if you happen to want to be a WV small town or small firm lawyer. And, recently, a client who is going through a big life transition told me that… View Article

December 2, 2015

I Used to Detest Ralph Nader

I will try to keep this as short as one of my Facebook posts. In 1965, Ralph Nader wrote his book, “Unsafe at Any Speed”, an indictment of my family’s second car, The Chevrolet Corvair. My car mags, Road and Track and Car and Driver hated him too. Finally, Detroit was making a sporty, small,… View Article

November 4, 2015

Making the Best of Two Days On the Road, Oct. 31 – Nov. 1, 2015

I encountered the Ghostbusters crew driving on I-81 South, Near Carlisle, Pa. I posted this to FB on Monday, but promised it as a blog post. I believe it shows that we don’t have to wander through life, listening to country music, and hoping for something to kill the boredom. The digital world is a… View Article

September 30, 2015

My Last “Dear Colleague Letter”, 9-29-2015

I just mailed out my last letter to 100 or so colleagues I began writing to five years ago. Things were beginning to change even then, but we still had a pretty stable list of e-mail addresses, and I knew little of blogging and social media communication. I got replies once-in-awhile, and several warm private… View Article

September 24, 2015

CLE Caveat 9-24-2015

No photos, graphics, or live urls : Just some thoughts looking back on the advice and tips I have handed out at the 2015 WV State Bar “Solo and Small Firms Annual Conference”: Strange to write my post script before publishing my two CLE related posts. But, as I prepared my materials, I began to… View Article

September 24, 2015

Some Hot Tips

Burt’s Hot Tips. An excellent collections of legal podcasts. The Legal Talk Network: http://legaltalknetwork.com/   Excellent desktop search engine although Windows 7 is much better than Windows XP. http://www.copernic.com/ Techmith’s Snagit: Now that Windows “Snippit” has improved, you may decide you don’t need Snagit, but I prefer it’s ease of use and ability to save… View Article

September 24, 2015

Suggestions for Operating and Marketing A Small Firm Efficiently and on a Budget

Except for a four year stint in a firm called the U.S. Air Force JAG Corp, I have been in firms of no more than 3 lawyers for 39 years. As a sole practitioner, I have 3-5 assistants . When a valued employee decided to become a stay at home wife and mother, I was… View Article

July 29, 2015

Some Thoughts on Hunting for Trophy Animals – And Some Tips on Punctuation

The news item of the rogue dentist who killed Cecil, Zimbabwa’s favorite lion will soon be off of the front page, but it prompted me to make this post to FB, and some thoughtful posts, so I thought I would share it. A conundrum: 1. WV has a tradition of hunting. Fathers, and Mothers, teach… View Article

July 14, 2015

Perspectives on the Iranian Peace Deal and Human Conflict

I don’t have time for this. But if I don’t capture it, it will be gone. And, I am taking the rest of the day for “Important but not urgent” tasks, including my Lynda.com course on The Essentials of iCloud, something I just must master. After all, we all will be living in the cloud… View Article

June 28, 2015

WV FAMILIES DODGE A METAPHORICAL BULLET

I refer readers to my post, “WV Supreme Court Rules People May Not Agree to Leave Each Other Alone”  https://hunterlawfirm.net/wv-supreme-court-rules-people-may-not-agree-to-leave-each-other-alone/  which I wrote after I learned of a memorandum opinion in the WV Supreme Court of Appeals case of Riffle v. Miller, No. 14-0042. That opinion was rescinded a short while later, without comment, “for… View Article