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March 15, 2014

Domestic Violence

...rms. A West Virginia domestic violence petition also activates the Federal Gun Control Act, which allows for registration of the accused into the federal database. A person accused of domestic battery can also lose his or her job and be prevented from having unsupervised visits with his or her children. Long-Term Solutions I am particularly interested in helping people craft long-term solutions to the underlying problems that resulted in domestic...

June 9, 2012

A Foot in Each Camp

...trying desperately to keep out an e-mail because he knows it is a smoking gun proving his client’s infidelity (and she wants to be able to lie to the court about it); 3. Or the one who answers under oath that she has not identified any witnesses or potential exhibits two weeks before she discloses 24 witnesses and 100 exhibits? I think we should, and I think judges should, penalize dirty players, which they will not do most of the time. To them i...

May 1, 2015

The Chinese Curse: “May You Have a Mild Closed Head Injury” – And What if it Happens to You?

...t, even with financial relief, he eventually took his own life, with a handgun. Another client, upon receiving a large check, thanked us profusely, but voiced his opinion that it was the specialized treatment and evaluation we had obtained for him that had restored his life. Money was secondary to being relieved of the agony of short-term memory loss, lack of focus and concentration, and an unhappy and worried wife. This man had been a leader of m...

March 17, 2013

A Small Town Lawyer’s Reading List

...ocieties Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition; Jared Diamond 2.2.8.1 Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond 1.1.8. The End of Lawyers, Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services,Richard Suskind (boring, boring, boring! I do not see this impacting our world in WV, except on short term such as “LegalZoom.com”. ) 1.1.9. The Social Media Bible, Tactics, Tools & Strategies for Business Success, Lon Safko and David K. Brake. (My version is 2009; new v...

March 29, 2010

West Virginia Auto Insurance Coverages

...ble ads on television is by Progressive Insurance. The gal with the “price gun” says, “Name your price, and we will sell you that policy.” So much for, “You get what you pay for.” The cheaper the policy, generally, the less coverage you get. I shall try to be concise. 1. Liability coverage: personal injury and property damage. This is the coverage you carry for injuries, to person and property, that you may accidentally cause. Selfishly, you want...

May 7, 2010

Scumbags and the Death Penalty

...client entered the hayfield with a deer rifle with scope, .22 pistol, shotgun, and sawed off baseball bat. The Judge called us in, advised we had a tough jury who hadn’t reacted (not a blink, wink, or smile) to our closing argument. He told us to expect life without mercy, and congratulated us on a job well done. Shaking in our boots, my co-counsel, client, and I, awaited the verdict. I was crushed by a verdict of 2nd degree murder. The judge, wh...

August 20, 2010

Communicating with Those You Hate, or Who Hate You

...above is one solution. A more “high tech” solution which I have recently begun using with our own infant granddaughter is to communicate with a “web cam”. As long as each side has broadband internet and a “web cam”, less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), you can communicate with your child “face-to-face”. You can even set up your camcorder to record your end of the conversation. The computer screen has your face and the child’s. That way, if the...

June 2, 2011

Disposing of 5000 Closed Client Files

...small firm lawyers who have decades of files “in the back room” and have begun to wonder “what if”. Our office no longer needs to save voluminous paper files. My 5000 closed files, stored on our second floor, will soon be confetti. It will take longer for files younger than ten years, and for my active cases, but I will get there. I intend to do 1000/day for a total of no more than five days, three if I am lucky. We will need to notify clients in...

June 19, 2011

A Study In Hypocrisy

...so many people disliked him. And, he died from a bullet from Aaron Burr’s gun. He intentionally shot into the ground; Burr shot to kill. . Weiner also is “a wiener”. He certainly is not a Hamilton, but now we probably won’t know what he could have been. They say perhaps Mayor of New York City? It is ironic that he might have been a terrible mayor, a scandal waiting to happen, if this scandal had not happened. But, what would he have become? He wo...

April 28, 2012

How To Testify at Trial

...’s) questions;  (Sounds obvious, right? Just wait until you are “under the gun” in a grinding cross examination. They key is listen, answer directly, and stop before blabbing on and giving the other side more ammunition.)                                                     iv.      No agonizingly long pauses, and no flip, angry, or argumentative responses. (Smart people are the worst; they may even relish fencing with pro, but that is perilous.)  ...