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January 18, 2011

What Does a Personal Injury Lawyer Do Anyway?

...accident scene, writing for the police collision report, ordering medical records, and interviewing of witnesses. SEVENTH, more detail is acquired. We ask the client and spouse to maintain diaries, and we have a form letter we write to “lay witnesses”, people who knew the victim before and since the injuries. What a surprise it is to some of our more seriously injured clients, who thought they were keeping their suffering to themselves, and were...

June 1, 2011

Why Should I Retain Burton Hunter For My Personal Injury Claim?

...locating and interviewing key potential witnesses, collecting your medical records and bills, getting key photos of the vehicles and the scene before evidence is lost; and doing at least a fundamental accident reconstruction. All of these tasks, and many more, must be considered in order to SETTLE THE CASE WITHOUT A LAWSUIT! Many people do not go straight to an attorney because they do not even know these tasks exist. They do not want to file a la...

November 18, 2011

Collegiality, Professionalism, and Burt’s Lie Detector

...ages, tax returns, deeds, titles, account balances, medical bills, medical records, and the other evidence that will be presented at trial (even though with this stuff, we usually avoid the need for a trial.) I then need lists, LOTS of lists, of my clients concerns, of complaints against the other party, of facts in my client’s favor, or problems they want to serve. FINALLY, after I make them collect these building blocks, we work on the structure...

July 30, 2013

Keys to a Successful Mediation

...yer. 4. We had signed a release for him to get my client’s social security records. During the initial Social Security exam, my client had, under oath, sworn that he had sustained “no serious injuries” during the five years before he filed his disability claim! 5. When I asked him “Why?!”, he answered, “I thought if I told them the truth, I would be denied my disability claim.”Having established without doubt that my client would lie for money, we...

November 20, 2011

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

...“visitation”, co-equal decision making, and co-equal access to children’s records. The apportionment of time is often determined by a look-back to what you and your spouse have done before the date of separation. If you worked 60 hours a week, and your spouse stayed at home and did not rely heavily on a third party care provider (baby sitter, day care, etc.), do not be surprised that you demand for 50% is not going to be granted. 5. Mediation. Wo...

March 27, 2013

Why Play by the Rules?

...r decades of law practice, and in the last three years reviewing appellate records, it has become apparent to me that a perverse culture of obstruction has developed regarding pusillanimous interrogaory objections and prefatory instructions. This culture condones and encourages lawyers to rely on the discovery process (the way lawyers obtain information from the other side under the “discovery rules” of the WV Rules of Civil procedure.) as a means...

August 30, 2013

Why Should My Lawyer Know Technology

...gram of “e-filing” of lawsuits and their pleadings; some county courthouse records are online. 10. Lawyers with the CaseSoft software suite can scan or upload transcripts, index the transcripts, send testimony to “CaseMap, link testimony to key issues, and use the stored material to draft pre-trial memos and orders. 11. Lawyers who use Excel can create equitable distribution spreadsheets of his client’s debts and assets, prepared a proposed distri...

January 3, 2014

More Correspondence with Baron Henley – Dear Colleages, January 1, 2014

...ow from the perspective of a sole practitioner, who has 30+ years of paper records, four employees, and some proprietary software that works well for me. If I were a larger firm or had practiced fifteen years or fewer, I think I would follow Baron’s every suggestion. As it is, I have to pick and choose. 4. EVERYONE should evaluate the advice we get through the prism of practice size, level of tech savvyness, years of experience, etc. Thank you Bar...

July 21, 2014

Lawyer Ratings

...red decision making on major matters, and shared access to all the child’s records, for every fit parent. Getting decent reviews means we have to do good work and ask our clients for feedback. This can be a humbling experience. Answers can be surprising. One lady was furious at me because her prior lawyer did not get an agreement to provide medical insurance for their daughter through college, something the law does not require of any father. Our...

July 27, 2014

My Areas of Legal and Geographical Practice

...parenting time. Decision making; Addiction issues; Abuse issues; Access to records; Adoption; and Domestic violence. d. Equitable distribution of marital assets and debts, including retirement assets and real estate. e. Alimony and Spousal support; f. Modification of Court Orders. g. Relocation disputes, to other counties, states, and countries; and h. Contempt matters. 4. Mediation. I represent parties in mediation involving any of the areas list...