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November 26, 2010

How to Set Up a Modern, Tech Savvy, Legal Office

...our clients. By freeing our time, we should be able to move negotiations, mediations, and cases forward more quickly and cheaply. b. Dragon Naturally Speaking is still, elusively, “almost there”. It allows the user to dictate into the microphone while the words print to the screen. I use it for letters, long memos, and orders, but I will not be happy until I stop being “J. Burton Hunter the third”, or “Iii”, and my paralegal is “Letetia”, not “Le...

September 1, 2020

The Problem of Trash, Garbage, Clutter, and Filth in Family Law

...le tend to give up. Often there is deferred maintenance on their house and their children. Certainly, they defer tending to one another and their relationship. But once we are engaged in what is, by design, an “adversary relationship” in a divorce setting, even if we have been sent to mediation, it is essential to move to a mode where the house is cared for, the children are your first priority, the paths are clear, and the marital residence is we...

October 22, 2010

The Dilemma of the Difficult Client

...ey. I also believe that if the client is well prepared by the attorney for mediation or settlement negotiations, and makes a reasoned decision to enter into a compromise agreement, and later repudiates the agreement, the attorney, in good conscience, should resign. This does not cover cases where the client or the attorney forgot a critical fact which changes the effect of the agreement, where behavior of the other side shows bad faith, or where t...

December 17, 2018

Resources: For My Clients, Potential Clients, Self-Represented, and Colleagues.

...tion about personal injury and other contingency fee cases; my thoughts on mediation, negotiation, and other methods of dispute resolution; new concepts on “future of the law” and access to justice for low and moderate income litigants; and some of my deepest and most serious views on the problems of our culture and our world. For rock solid information focused on WV Divorce Law, read “Divorce in West Virginia : The Legal Process, Your Rights, and...

April 15, 2021

Unbundling, Limited Scope Contracts, Legal Coaching, Ghost Writing, and Mentoring

...govern your case, or being a phone call away if you want to handle our own mediation with “a coach”. Such coaching will also let you attend a hearing with confidence, or perhaps show you why you DO NOT want to assume that risk without a lawyer at your side. And, of course, an unbundled service may include help in mediating your case. Good lawyers are limited only by their willingness to innovate. Fortunately, WV now allows such “limited scope” leg...

January 21, 2019

More Organizing the Facts in Your Case: Linking CaseMap, Outlook 365, and Evernote.

...eed to access our CaseMap files from anywhere, including by me when I’m at mediation or trial! Solution; “DropBox Team”! We created a shared DropBox folder, “2019CurrentCaseMapFiles”. We created a CaseMap File for each current client. Yesterday a client sent me six photos of marks on this child’s small body. I created a CaseMap File in DropBox. “lastname.firstname.date”. I selected the six e-mails and the CaseMap plug-in and sent six new “objects”...

October 1, 2010

Social Media, the Internet, Texting, and E-Mail

...them to fear you cannot protect the children, and poison the atmosphere at mediation. 7. Several colleagues have suggested to you that I “require” you not use Facebook or other social media. To me, that is akin to telling you not to use your phone or fax machine. And, it is as hopeless as telling my clients not to date. 8. I sincerely believe that dating shortly after a breakup is usually foolish and short-sighted, if only because it makes the “ot...

March 14, 2011

Social Media Warnings, Family Law Parties

...em to believe you won’t protect the children, and poison the atmosphere at mediation . 7. Some of my colleagues have suggested we “require” that clients not use social media. To me, that is akin to telling you not to use your phone or fax machine. And, it is as hopeless as telling my separated clients not to date. (I strongly URGE you not to date or expose children traumatized by a separation to a new “significant other. At least wait until you se...

April 27, 2020

Mr. Hunter’s Message to Adversaries

...Mr. Hunter’s Message to Adversaries: https://youtu.be/zKZ0ZEALMQo Whether you are a lawyer or unrepresented, here is my message to you. We will fight you if we must, but often there is another way, negotiation, mediation, collaboration, reciprocity. It’s called “The Golden Rule”. And it works.  ...

July 31, 2010

Shortsighted Lawyers

...etter into something positive. 3. Many family law lawyers refuse to attend mediation with their clients. It is a myth that the lawyer can “prepare” the client to represent himself. There is usually a power disparity, so the client is either going to be “beaten up” or, just as bad, dominate the meeting, leaving the mediator to cope with the situation. The experienced attorney can help moderate the behavior of the aggressive client and build up the...