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March 4, 2011

How Did Your Week Compare to Mine?

...ous mediator who refused to mediate the case if I were going to attend the mediation. I did so by meeting with my client and the unrepresented Mother of his children before the hearing. We created a 20 page Permanent Parenting Plan using the document assembly program Pathagoras! The judge was happy to approve it and praised the parties lavishly. By doing the job the mediator should have, I saved my client $2000 and both parties six months of agony...

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 18, 2011

2011 Annual Meeting of WV State Bar

...ons, and the like. 16. I will write a blog article on this subject, but if mediation were mandatory in all cases, had to cover all issues, used only lawyer mediators, let lawyers charge $500-$1000 to be consultants for divorcing people, and other innovations, with proper training and support, lawyers could do divorces for $500-$2500 in the majority of cases. Having gushed all over him, I wandered away, leaving a puzzled former congressman to try t...

December 13, 2014

WV Supreme Court Rules People May Not Agree to Leave Each Other Alone.

...yers don’t communicate that well. For example, judges are never present at mediation where much of the real work of the family court system takes place. Thus, they often have little understanding of what goes on there. I will be talking with our legislators. We family court lawyers desperately need a tool that is NOT a sledgehammer (domestic violence order). We need a finer tool, the one the Supreme Court just took away from us! We need our family...

October 7, 2011

Breaking Up With Your Personal Injury, Divorce, or Civil Lawsuit Lawyer

...ttlement demand was in the file. In six months, after a frustrating failed mediation, we settled that case for a large sum of money. We paid the other firm the value of their services – NOTHING. In the other case, the woman’s lawyer called me back, told me she had heard “rumors” the woman had gone back to her husband and that the woman did not communicate well with her. But, SHE HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR FAILING TO FILE A MOTION TO WITHDRAW AND NO EX...

June 6, 2017

What You May Not Know of the Legal Profession

...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 to maintain currency in my profession. Before each session, I think, “I don’t have time for this,”, but I drive home uplifted and proud to be a member of the legal profession. For all of our flaws, there are attorneys who get up every day driven to succeed on their own behalf and their clients’. He...

July 30, 2012

...ome guidance outside of my personal injury, family law, civil lawsuit, and mediation practice areas, but it’s usually to guide you to a good resource or a lawyer. If we cannot represent you, we still want to help you. My law office is conveniently located one block from the courthouse in Buckhannon, West Virginia, One West Main Street. I am available for evening and weekend appointments. If you are unable to come to my office for health reasons, I...

October 12, 2012

Feigned Indignation

...ut of money, he will still have a lawyer. This case has my full attention, and if the other side is in the wrong, I WILL prove it. Tricks like this poison the atmosphere at mediation and are never worth the harm it does to the lawyers’ professional relationship, but I see it happen every day....

December 24, 2012

Many Ways to Meet Your Lawyer – Personal Injury – Divorce – Civil Suits

...awyer, I suggest you and your spouse, or adversary, consider coming in for mediation; the cost? $300-$800, usually shared by the two of you. I can help the two of you prepare a parenting plan or property settlement agreement that is nearly identical to the ones I prepare for my clients. We can fine tune or modify a plan that has already been court ordered. 8. I have even begun charging a flat fee to share the essential information in case you deci...

January 7, 2013

The Education of the Perfect Paralegal

...es, and procedures. I must have files prepared in detail, pre-hearing, pre-mediation, and pre-trial checklists completed, witnesses subpoenaed, and concerns reported to the lawyer. 13. Finally, a rare quality in the typical applicant for a legal assistant’s position in a small town is someone who is well read, curious, and ambitious. People with these qualities often move away. This is a simple fact, but a person can decide to stay a “small town p...