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September 24, 2015

Suggestions for Operating and Marketing A Small Firm Efficiently and on a Budget

...f-reading/ https://hunterlawfirm.net/a-small-town-lawyers-reading-list/ My personal injury posts are generally designed to dispel misconceptions and educate the potential client https://hunterlawfirm.net/personal-injury-client-misperceptions/ https://hunterlawfirm.net/dear-personal-injury-client-points-to-remember/ https://hunterlawfirm.net/not-the-normal-personal-injury-blah-blah/ https://hunterlawfirm.net/the-chinese-curse-may-you-have-a-mild-cl...

January 23, 2015

Digging Down – On Organizing and Preparing Your Case

...d, but the timeline exhibit remains an essential part of the presentation. Personal Injury Cases” 59. In personal injury cases, the fees are contingent, so we owe to the client a full presentation of evidence, even when jury verdict expectancies are under $50,000. But, the collection of evidence, police reports, photographs, and “lay witness letters” about the injured party’s symptoms, medical records, and medical bills, is still absolutely essent...

January 12, 2016

Hire the Lawyer Who Hates Insurance Adjustors?

...ith their peers. I write about such matters. He are some of my writings on personal injury and insurance. jbh My personal injury posts are generally designed to dispel misconceptions and educate the potential client https://hunterlawfirm.net/personal-injury-client-misperceptions/ https://hunterlawfirm.net/dear-personal-injury-client-points-to-remember/ https://hunterlawfirm.net/not-the-normal-personal-injury-blah-blah/ https://hunterlawfirm.net/th...

December 5, 2014

“Legal Disability” – What Do a Soldier, a 17 Year Old, an Inmate, and a Hospitalized Mental Patient Have in Common

...ined as incompetent because they cannot enter into certain contracts, sign personal injury releases, file civil suits, or conduct certain kinds of business transactions. So, how does the law deal with such “incompetency”? If a person is under a “legal disability” for one of the reasons listed above, for example a divorce, the court will often appoint the person a guardian ad litem. A Guardian under law acts in some ways as the person’s lawyer. The...

October 4, 2013

If I Could Know Only Ten Critical Things About My Serious Injury Claim, What Would They Be?

...not accurate. Preconceptions are killers. 2. The percentage of really good personal injury lawyers is the same as dog catchers, @ 10%. 3. A good injury lawyer is not an ambulance chaser. He or she cares about you and your family, but he isn’t “Mother Theresa”. He cares about getting ahead and making a living too. 4. The entire system is based on the question of whether a person or company violated a duty (is “at fault”) and seriously injured you o...

September 3, 2016

Self-Represented Mediation

...all the challenges of a contested trial. Here we will leave the subject of personal injury claims, since most of those do not go to mediation until after suit is filed, except to say, here is the link to a search of my blog for the term “personal injury”. It has 109 “hits”; enjoy: https://hunterlawfirm.net/?s=%22personal+injury%22 If you are still here, perhaps you are facing your own family law matter. Perhaps you are thinking of filing, have fil...

September 15, 2010

Comparative Fault in WV

...l Liability” bill. Just another reason to have an experienced, up to date, personal injury lawyer on your side. 2-27-2015.) Personal injury law in WV is based on fault. If you make a mistake (negligence) and injure someone else, you are legally responsible, SO carry insurance. WV requires us to carry $20,000 per person and $40,000 per occurrence of personal injury liability insurance. Homeowners are largely free of serious injury claims because th...

September 18, 2011

Obesity And The Law, And How Not to Be Fat

...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 personal injury claim. I have explained that in...

March 23, 2012

How To Read Burt’s Book?

...about personal injury law, lawsuits, tort law, what it takes to be a good personal injury lawyer, and what’s involved in consulting a personal injury lawyer are “legion”. c. The examples of tragic consequences to people who tried to be their own lawyer are real, usually recent, cases. The clients have agreed their stories can be told. They generously wish for others to avoid what they went through. And sometimes I am just having fun while making...

January 22, 2016

An Article to Bookmark: Until Your World Comes Crashing Down

...ng to the next thing, and I try to get back to you within an hour. Serious personal injury matters cause an alarm to ring. There is usually a component of urgency, and my paralegal of 15 years will usually come on the phone to get more details. When you and I talk for the first time, I have lots of narrowly focused questions. In 5-15 minutes, I know if I am interested, and I hope I can help, so I begin to answer your questions. You do not have to...