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January 27, 2020

Mediation: Slipping Away?

...rent. There is more money on the civil side as there is often funding from insurance companies and from a well-funded personal injury or civil law firm. And, there may be only two issues: a. Liability? and b. Monetary Damages. A typical family law mediation can have 10, 20, or more issues! Most counties where I practice send parties to mediate what they call “children’s issue”. But, sadly, most do not see the distribution of assets and debts, or t...

December 12, 2012

The Client is The Boss, or is S/He?

...issues to resolve. The fact that the husband cannot carry the wife on his insurance after divorce was the only issue the wife considered “important” so she will proceed into the lion’s den unrepresented. I do not wish her ill, but she is taking a grave risk. Having done this for a living for 40 years, I have great confidence that if I take a careful history, and the client is honest with me, I can prescribe a course of action that will likely tur...

February 18, 2019

A 50 Year Retrospective

...y scaring white working-class people, the “filthy rich”, big business, big insurance, and big “pharma”, the Tea Party, the radical religious right, white nationalists, and die-hard racists have formed a coalition that has temporarily blocked what I believe are inevitable changes. Watching the thoughtful, intelligent, educated people who visited Colonial Williamsburg, I believe that the rational people will have a resurgence, and the fear-mongers,...

January 3, 2012

Hello 2012; An Avalanche of Change

...d it was nice to be dining in his “Dressing Room”. Today I put my Medicare Insurance Card into my wallet. Drat! It is a time for reflection, before we plunge into another busy year. I never could picture myself this age, but now that I am here, I find myself looking backward and forward, with plenty of clarity and enthusiasm. I relish using what I have learned, for my practice and my private life. This week I found yet another “lost cousin” on Fac...

October 17, 2018

GAPS IN WV FAMILY LAW

...a monthly budge for a sole practitioner of $20,000 for operating expenses, insurance, marketing, hardware, and software is completely routine. Some attorneys work with little or no staff. That’s a prescription for disaster. 6. There is no simple fix. Non-lawyer mediators exist, w/little or no overhead. They don’t understand the law, so they mediate “only children’s issues”, as if knowing the law isn’t critical. And they prefer NOT to have lawyers...

January 21, 2019

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

...ial witnesses, documents (e-mails, texts, letters, bills, balances sheets, insurance policies, pay records, photos, video clips, ANYTHING). That stuff member can also send them to EverNote. But, for now, I think I will save EverNote for personal stuff and office management and blog writing. Each client will now have two folders, his/her client folder on our file server, and her/his CaseMap folder in Dropbox. This is a “game changer”. Eventually we...

April 27, 2011

Disingenuous Lawyers

...th! A variant of this behavior is the person who refuses to call his bank, insurance company, personnel officer, or Social Security Office to get information readily available, fills out an incomplete financial affidavit, or simply refuses to answer because the question is “unduly burdensome”. Some questions are unduly burdensome such as requests requiring hundreds or thousands of photocopies. Most questions in a simple divorce are simply NOT undu...

May 7, 2020

A Legal Resource if Your Life is Off-Kilter

...r-ended” six months ago, your medical bills are $5000, and the other guy’s insurance adjuster is stringing you along. Starting last to first: The answer is clear for the person who was rear-ended. It would have been better if you had called me when the collision occurred, but call now: 304 472-7477. Or write me at hunterjb@hunterlawfirm.net. Our process is a smooth one. You pay nothing if we don’t get your recovery, and our contingent fees are bel...

June 25, 2018

Tying It All Together: Mediation, Unbundling, Collaboration, and a New Paradigm

...approaches. It is an ethical approach with a very low rate of malpractice claims and abuse. But, the things I am referencing below are not generally in use in WV, where they are so desperately needed. I was disheartened to find Mr. Mosten’s four page, 150 paragraph, ridiculously complicated, unbundled fee agreement! It will be no surprise to anyone who knows me that I prefer my approach, having the client sign off on an article I’ve written on un...

March 9, 2016

How Much is Being Filmed Naked Worth? And Why?

...the purpose of punishment. TXO knowingly tried to keep a WV landowner from claiming a clear record title to the oil and gas under their property. Damages were $19,000 in attorney fees, but my friend David Brumfield convinced the jury to award 500 times that number, or $10,000,000.00, in “punitive damages” against this two billions dollar company in order to discourage it and other companies from trying to ruin “the little guy”. Punitive means just...