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July 14, 2015

Perspectives on the Iranian Peace Deal and Human Conflict

...l defend itself if that becomes necessary. That’s just the beginning. His “personal story” told me much, so much that I took the long way home, south, then west, and then north. He and his parents are/were Holocaust Survivors. But, with a twist. To survive, they split up. They gave him, less than a year old, to a nanny, a devout catholic woman, “for a few days”. She kept him for four years. She collaborated with a priest to hide his identity, and...

February 1, 2011

The Tension Between Lawyers and Judges

...lient. 11. Even the judges who know me well do not seem to realize that my personal standard of fairness is higher than any ethical “standard” the State Bar can impose on me. I will not lie to an unrepresented opponent. I will work hard to understand their complaints against my client. I will do what I can to get my client to avoid control and emotional abuse. I keep the children in mind constantly. If I cannot represent the client in good faith,...

July 20, 2010

Mediation Conundrums, Domestic Violence, and Sociopaths

...Much was covered today on the difficulties of mediating with parties with personality disorders, addictions, and sociopathic tendencies. These 10% of the total take up as much time as the remaining 90%, and most of the fatalities come from that group. Mediation with even one party with such problems is almost impossible. This is where the wisdom of the Court at trial is important, but if a person is going to have difficulty representing themselve...

March 6, 2013

Fundamental Precautions – Before and After Your Serious Collision

...Up your UM and UIM coverage, and if you can afford an “extra $200”, bet a personal umbrella but MAKE SURE the agent offers you UM and UIM coverage. In at least one extreme case, the agent did not and we had to recover under the agent’s “errors and omissions” coverage. Our state Delegate, Bill Hamilton, is co-sponsoring a bill this year to increase minimum coverages. I support it, but the real solution is to purchase the insurance protection you c...

July 15, 2011

Practical Technology 102

...our default. You will want to make sure you are scanning to your client or personal folders “searchable PDF” files; otherwise, you may have difficulty searching within the body of the document. Here is a great way to do legal, or any kind of, research. Go to your legal research software. I use Fastcase. Many Lawyers use WestNext and others Lexis/Nexis. Take the cases cited by your opponent, and the cases you find, and line them up in the queue for...

August 12, 2011

Protecting Our Reputations

...the client, as this one did, scared my staff and advised he would show up personally at my office every day until I “made” the other lawyer respond to my letters and calls. I will “yell” if her or she violates a domestic violence, or restraining order, and I will withdraw from a case where the client persistently disobeys the court or ignores my advice. My theory is that I cannot help such people, so I move on to people that I can help. 5. I kick...

December 28, 2010

Tech Feedback with Blog Readers

...sues that arise therefrom. If you have a broader range of needs, including personal writing, memoir, family history, genealogy, appellate work, etc., then you definitely are going to want to store, organize, index, and be able to locate every kind of “document”. Assuming you want to benefit from current technology, you need, as a minimum, a good laptop, capable of handling multiple tasks. If you have staff, you will want a network capability so th...

November 20, 2011

What Burt Has to Say to His (Divorce and Custody) Opponents

...ligation is to my client. But that does not mean I am your enemy or have a personal vendetta against you. 3. That said; this may surprise you. I am fundamentally fair, have decided long ago never intentionally to mislead my opponents, and will focus as hard I can on the best interests of any minor children. 4. That does not mean that I never bluff or hide our “true bottom line”. There is a difference between serious negotiations, positions taken a...

January 3, 2012

Hello 2012; An Avalanche of Change

...valuable information, answers to their questions, informative videos, and personal information about me. Just as finding a good restaurant, hotel, or travel agency is enhanced by internet research, the task of choosing a lawyer is enhanced by using the Internet. Having spent the last two years actively posting my views, photos, videos, and blog posts, I plan, in the first quarter of 2012, to publish my first book. Initially, it will be an Amazon...

February 6, 2012

Burt’s Criticism of Religion and Religiosity

...ofoundly right to me when it comes to behavior, do we have to objectify a “personal savior” who sits around worrying about me all the time? Why tell our children fables and silliness about Jesus’ doing supernatural things, awakening the dead, changing water into wine, calming seas. and multiplying fish? Why cannot we focus on his teachings and not his party tricks? This comes from a fellow who got his older cousin to admit to him, when he was five...