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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”...

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.  ...

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...

February 5, 2021

Divorce: Gathering the Critical Details of Marital Assets and Debts

...subtotal; and Creates “a proposed equitable distribution” spreadsheet for mediation or trial. The “proposed equitable distribution spreadsheet” can be sent to the other party as a settlement offer, or as a disclosure of values and balances and “food for thought”. And, the “equitable distribution spreadsheet” is an excellent exhibit to include in your “confidential statement to the mediator”. Mediators appreciate the attorney who is prepared to be...

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...

December 1, 2021

A Legal Blog: Perspectives of a Small Town (WV) Lawyer

...lment. Insights into Civility, Collegiality, Alternate Dispute Resolution (Mediation/Arbitration), Innovation, and Future of the Law. Social Media Marketing, Advertising, and Community Involvement The blog initially had two titles, “Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer” and “WV Lawyer: Tips and Techniques”. Now it is one blog, “Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer”, which is also the title of my book of 300 pages, published to Amazon Kindle and Pape...

February 4, 2013

Why Do You Bring Your Client to Every Hearing?

...share with me, and I was able to tell him his case had been continued and mediation ordered. These were both good things, BUT what about the time when something BAD happens and the client is not there? This is why I believe it is unconstitutional for a judge to bar a litigant from sitting next to his lawyer at any hearing and why the recorder should be on for every hearing or conference. 8. Just think of the lawyer who had to tell his Ca. clients...

March 21, 2014

The Lawyers’ “Golden Rule” for Sheriffs’, and Private, Process Servers

...In short, do unto that process server as you would have him/her do unto you if you had that job. You will certainly earn the respect of the person serving those papers. Finally, if you are serving a non-violent spouse or partner, with whom you are going to have to work in mediation or settlement negotiations, perhaps a simple heads up call so the person can call the sheriff and come to the office to pick up the paper him/her/self would be the way...

December 23, 2014

Social Media Annual Review – Marketing for the Small Firm Lawyer

...she was not happy, and she took it out on me and our mediator. Successful mediations save clients thousands of dollars, but they are COMPROMISES. That review hurt my “Merchants’ Circle” score, below: Even though Yelp is tailored to businesses such as restaurants, I think it makes sense to claim your site and create a profile. If someone posts a positive review, great! But, if we get a negative one, we can guide our next 3-4 satisfied clients to t...