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February 23, 2015

Publishing my Kindle Books

...My articles on personal injury law and practice, insurance bad faith, industrial accidents, and medical malpractice and civil law, and civil mediation. I just need a “catchy title. b. My articles on civil and family mediation, also called “alternate dispute resolution. c. My articles on office management, technology, collegiality, and ethical behavior. d. My articles on my family law practice, which of necessity will have some repetitive material...

December 23, 2014

Social Media Annual Review – Marketing for the Small Firm Lawyer

...r of the United Way, board member of The Arts Alliance, chairman of the WV Trial Lawyers’ “Peoples Law Schools”, 17 years a youth soccer coach, organizer of computer fairs, and computer clinics, and was even an amateur auto racer who wrote his own news reports. Our firm sponsored a bicycle safety “road-e-o”, and bought helmets for children in the community. If you do not care about your community, it probably won’t care that much about you. For th...

September 19, 2014

How to be Productive While Preserving One’s Sanity

...current, I found myself with an “empty day” because of a continuance of a trial. I snapped the photo above, and then realized that this is a key to my productivity and my love for what I do. I grew up in the Country with views of Wheeling’s Oglebay Park, Wilson Lodge, 4-H Camp Russell, the Observatory, and the Mansion Museum. Nancy grew up on the prototypical, post WV II, quiet Ct. residential street, in a house built by her Dad. But she shares w...

May 5, 2014

“Teacher; why do we have to learn this stuff?”

...sts fracturing their syntax. Someone at their high school let them down. A trial lawyer who is erudite has power. He knows psychology, philosophy, science, and literature. He knows how civilization evolved, how our legal system developed, how mankind’s conception of the self, and others, changed, how species interact with their environment or become extinct. His vocabulary and knowledge of literature, and perhaps music, is vast. She is curious and...

January 3, 2014

More Correspondence with Baron Henley – Dear Colleages, January 1, 2014

...g and prioritizing task lists, and calendaring, are essential skills for a trial lawyer. From Baron > 2. There are many disadvantages to accessing your email ONLY from a webpage, www.outlook.com<http://www.outlook.comor www.gmail.com<http://www.gmail.com> or any other similar service) compared to using an email application (like MS Outlook (the program, not the website) or Mozilla Thunderbird) which downloads your email so you can do more with it....

February 1, 2015

Symantics, Metaphor, Religion, and Clarity of Thought

...last article was long and substantive, as is the one I am working on (how trial lawyers can communicate with conservatives), so here is one a bit shorter. Editor’s note: Easier said than done. As the writer said, “If I had more time, this would have been a lot shorter.” 1. While everyone else was covering the “Great New England Blizzard of 2015”, Fareed Zacaria covered something much more important to America’s long term best interests, the Presi...