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December 23, 2014

Social Media Annual Review – Marketing for the Small Firm Lawyer

...ts. 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 the first time, “The (new) WV (Lawyers) Rules of Professional Responsibility” identify a responsibility of a lawyer to become “tech savvy”. I emphatically agree! I wrote “How to Set Up a Tech Savvy Legal Office” four years ago: https://hunterlawfirm.net/how-to...

January 30, 2012

Your Legal Checkup and Review; “An Ounce of Prevention”

...ve died “intestate” and your heirs may be just who you expected, spouse or children, but perhaps not. And, you leave them confused as to the person you wanted to handle the estate. That’s the “administrator” or “executor”. Many people with simple estates still want to specify “bequests” of personal property, heirlooms, etc., or “real estate” such as Grandma’s farm. Don’t leave such traps for you family to navigate. They’ll be glad you made your wi...

July 31, 2011

Dear Personal Injury Client: Points to Remember

...t. Please fill them out conscientiously. I had two clients who were poster children for what NOT to do: a. The gal forgot to tell me that a chiropractor treated her for an injury at the exact place of the new injury FIVE YEARS BEFORE. She lied about it during discovery, and I caught it the morning of jury selections. We salvaged a fair settlement, but no thanks to her. She failed to realize that I can turn a pre-existing injury into an asset IF I...

January 24, 2018

A Personal Injury Glossary: Negligence, Insurance, and the Rest

...he claimants are beneficiaries defined by the statute, including dependent children, a spouse, parents, and certain other persons. Keys are the closeness of the relationship between the decedent and the survivor dependent, the income potential and life expectancy of the decedent, and the amount of pain and suffering the decedent endured. 14. Punitive Damages: are not tied to compensation such as lost wages, medical expenses, or impairment. There m...

January 24, 2018

Grim News For a Troubled State: Are There Solutions?

...ing thought that Nancy Goodfellow Hunter and I had managed to get our four children into lifeboats, and to learn they had made it safely to shore. They live in areas where there are jobs, development, and hope. For now, we, of course, are fine. I have carved out an unassailable place, until health or death intervenes. I am the most experienced person in certain areas, and I have adapted to changing times. I will keep fighting for my share of a shr...

September 18, 2011

Obesity And The Law, And How Not to Be Fat

...effects intimacy, the health of the parents, self-image and health of the children, and in employment and insurance. In personal injury, juries are very “judgmental” of obese claimants. Fat people usually have more serious pre-existing conditions. They are more susceptible to injury, and a fit person is much more likely to come out of a collision unscathed than his overweight counterpart. I can turn a pre-existing injury into an advantage in a pe...

December 16, 2011

Is Lying or Stealing Wrong?

...e not true. In my family practice, parents and grandparents often tell the children bad things about the other parent and defend themselves with, “But it is true.” Just because something is true does NOT mean it needs to be spoken, especialy to a child enduring the trauma of his parents’ divorce. Behavior has improved with the court mandated classes for divorcing parents, but the lawyers, judges, and teachers of the classes have virtually no commu...

May 17, 2012

How I Got My Score Over 50 on Klout.com; Bird by Bird

...your Social Media Marketing presence. And remember, you can “sell yourself” without seeking a profit in your charities, personal interests, church activities, children’s myriad activities, etc. But, in the end, you will have to succeed “Bird by Bird”....

July 4, 2012

Why Does My Lawyer Act The Way He Does?

...told it from our point of view. Anyone who has a lawyer, has a legal matter brewing, or was unhappy with your lawyer in your last case,  should consider reading the entire thread. 5. Those of us who are good at what we do care deeply about our clients and, especially, their children, but we maintain priorities of getting the job done efficiently and economically, and holding a client’s hand 24/7 is not consistent with those worthy goals. I will be...

September 25, 2013

A Small Town Lawyer’s Opinion on Keeping One’s Views to One’s Self.

...ignity. Doubt that one? Come get your hair cut in my barber shop. 9. Their children aren’t getting in trouble. 10. He doesn’t have a whacky Mom or brother diverting our attention. (No, Bush doesn’t have a whacky Mom or siblings. His Mom speaks what is on her mind. I like that. And I like his Dad, and I like his style as a former President. Even like his moderate brother.) 11. My Israeli friends don’t trust Obama or like him very much, but I HOPE t...