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April 5, 2011

Dear Honorable (Family Court) Judges

...t seems the child might be ready for college before the parties have their trial! s. At last count, I have encountered a dozen fatalities in my practice, 8 suicides and 4 homicides. I am anxious to avoid repeating the experience. t. I am convinced that there is a better way to process these cases. In spite of good intentions, there is not enough innovation, not enough originality, and not enough communication, among judges, among counsel, and betw...

December 8, 2013

Family Law Practice Tip – Equitable Distribution and Alimony Spreadsheets

...so I file it with the Equitable. Distribution spreadsheet as part of my pretrial memorandum. If you are comfortable with Excel, this may work for you, but remember: 1. Make valuation and label changes in the input form, the Intake sheet (#1). Enter values and formula in the four columns of the right side of the Equitable Distribution Spreadsheet (#2). 2. The Budget Form (#4) requires the entry of monthly budget numbers. 3. The Consolidated sheet(#...

January 7, 2013

The Education of the Perfect Paralegal

...o create a clear summary of what we believe the witness is going to say at trial. But, if there is a trial, we still need that warm body there. The paralegal must subpoena the witness or document in plenty of time to them to be at trial. It is essental for the paralegal to be able to interview witnesses, reduce the statement to a concise written statement, and follow up with the witness to get it proofed, corrected, and signed. c. The Family Court...

January 21, 2019

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

...to find the various handwritten “object lists”, when it is time to do a pretrial memo or to prepare for trial, those lists will just be entered an hour or two each day by the staff member who has time to do it. This duty will be done by a “tag team”. The witness and exhibit lists, list of issues, and chronology, can now be prepared in a fraction of time it used to take! You may search my blog www.hunterlawfirm.net/blog for the word “CaseMap” for a...

February 19, 2021

Family Law in WV: A Deep Dive

...the case, preparing exhibits, interviewing witnesses, calling witnesses to trial, subpoenaing records, filing motions, resisting motions, and even filing an appeal. That spells $$$$$. Negotiation, Mediation, and Collaboration A good lawyer must, therefore, be adept at negotiating and preparing for and participating in mediation. At the very least, mediation can take 15-20 issues and reduce them to 2 or 3. More than 50% of the time, mediation resul...

January 18, 2011

What Does a Personal Injury Lawyer Do Anyway?

...tion. West Virginia has many good mediators, and most cases settle without trial. THIRTEENTH, 13 is an appropriate number, because if all efforts to settle with the adjustor, or in pre-litigation mediation, or mediation before trial fail, the parties must “roll the dice” before a jury, whose decision is usually sustained by the judge. It is a ritualized form of combat, our “adversary system”. Most people at that stage hope they have a skilled and...

April 4, 2012

Burt’s Picks of 11 Important Websites

.../bsd/pmresources.html 9. Tiny URL, the website to that allows you to convert a looooong url into a short one. This helps with posts to Facebook, and has many other uses: http://tinyurl.com/ 10. Trial Guides and David Ball’s website. Not, to my knowledge, related to Craig Ball. He is a superlative trial consultant and author of David Ball on Damages and Reptile: http://www.trialguides.com/authors/david-ball/ ; and related thereto, see: http://www.r...

August 20, 2012

Domestic Violence and Family Court

...articles on personal injury, insurance, trial preparation, mediation, and trials. God may reward me for writing the stuff below by sending me a good personal injury matter. In the meantime, someone has to pay the electric bill, and I am just as good in family law, which often involves violence and the threat of violence. In small town America, there is much less money in family law, and cases involving domestic violence often lead to the lawyer’s...

December 21, 2012

Where to Find Words of Wisdom – Or “Which Button Do I Push?”

...ling the local lawyer makes good sense. Even if that lawyer was not on the trial lawyers’ (WV Association for Justice) board for 20 years as I was, he or she almost certainly will know some of the relative handful of lawyers who “specialize” (his word; not one we are allowed to use) in a certain high risk area of the law. The phrase we are allowed to use is “focused area of practice”. It means a lawyer has done lots of a particular kind of case. T...

May 19, 2015

If I Were Tasked With Saving The Life of the Boston Bomber

...into becoming a terrorist. I doubt it. 8. Of course, in preparing him for trial, I would make sure that he knew if he wanted to die, he should act exactly as his lawyers allowed him to act during the actual trial, but, with luck, he would have been along on my plans for him to have evolved from “the bestial” world he came from to her own personal “age of enlightenment. 9. I would have much to learn, of course, about his country of origin, the pro...