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April 21, 2012

Getting Feedback

Yes; some day I am going to get some feedback that singes the hair off my head, but today I am feeling “all warm and fuzzy”. It was a “challenging week” that ended on a very good note, saving me LOTS of risk, anguish, and “up front money”. It was also stressful, but during that… View Article

April 12, 2012

Paperless Office

This is a set up at home. Not yet paperless, but with my Fujitsu Scansnap Scanner. An echo from my Dear Colleague Letter arrived in my inbox yesterday. (This blog is my replacement for the letter I had been sending periodically to a mailing list of colleagues I had devised. When nearly 1/3 of the… View Article

April 4, 2012

Burt’s Picks of 11 Important Websites

  I had this “Dear Colleague”  mailing list. There we around 200 lawyers, some business and professional people, and friends I would write to them when I came upon something of interest. The motivation was: 1. I like to share stuff and show off; always have. That may be why I liked the 4-H club… View Article

March 31, 2012

West Virginia Lawyer – Tips and Techniques

Above is the title to my first post, and to this blog. For two years I have authored “Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer”. After editing it several times, I uploaded it last month as an Amazon Kindle book. Price is $2.99, but if you e-mail at hunterjb@hunterlawfirm.net, I will send you the link to the… View Article

March 23, 2012

How To Read Burt’s Book?

As much as I would like to emulate John Grisham and Steve Coonts, I have no interest in writing fiction, and I will never reach “the masses”, but I think I have some suggestions for reading “Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer” that might justify it’s $2.99 download price. Or, if you write politely to… View Article

March 14, 2012

Is It Ok to Bite My Child?

If the answer to the above question were a simple “No!”, it would not be the title to this blog post. I might settle for one almost as simple, “That depends.”, but the answer is not simple. This is my first post since the revised predecessors of @ 120 posts and 200 pages became Burt’s first… View Article

March 9, 2012

Post Script

This is a good day for a retrospective. I ran head on into a tree on Monday and turned 66 on Weds. I do not feel 66. In a way, I am just getting started. I expect to come to the office regularly for at least 14 more years, health and energy permitting. Today, spurred… View Article

February 8, 2012

What Can a Lawyer Learn On The Road?

After all these years, I still feel I should apologize for going on vacation. I already had two “anxiety dreams”. In one, I could not read my litigation outline as I began my trial, and in another I was teaching a seminar with another lawyer and could not make sense of my PowerPoint Presentation. At… View Article

February 6, 2012

Burt’s Criticism of Religion and Religiosity

The Moon Over Our Home Our Friend the Mantis, With Duffy Looking On Wonders of Nature Burt’s Criticism of Religion and Religiosity by Burt Hunter on Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 5:59pm I have noted with interest the passionate Facebook postings over politics and religion, and the invocation of supernatural powers to help us avoid,… View Article

January 30, 2012

Your Legal Checkup and Review; “An Ounce of Prevention”

  (Avoiding Legal Problems, “Preventive Law”) We are used to the idea of an annual medical examination or “check up”, but not so much for our “legal health”. As a young US Air Force JAG, I learned of a concept called preventive law. Remember the truth in the phrases “an ounce of prevention” and “a… View Article