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April 18, 2011

2011 Annual Meeting of WV State Bar

...ok titled “The End of Lawyers”, Richard Susskind, Oxford Univ. Press) that legal services are going to become mere commodities and that legal training should be more like “vocational He stood up for “old fashioned” standards based on a long history of lawyering. Remember, Cicero was a lawyer. Cicero – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist....

March 22, 2022

When you Choose a Lawyer, Choose Well.

...n, where they had met at their “Freshman Mixer”, to raise their family and practice law. Nancy has served as Burt’s office manager for over 40 years. WV STATE BAR Recently, at the request of WV State Bar Executive Director, Anita Casey, Hunter authored an article published in The WV Lawyer magazine on Upshur County and his 40+ years of practice as a small firm lawyer and another on law office management and the transition to a “paperless office.”...

April 21, 2022

Our Helpful Resources: Writings and Videos

...s among heirs and neighbors. “Legal Coaching” or mentoring; aka “Unbundled Legal Services” under a “limited-scope contract.” Mediation Services, also based on an hourly rate, usually $250/hr. Recently I wrote two pieces of memoir, one relating my efforts to educate myself, the public, and my colleagues on a variety of topics. When you Choose a Lawyer, Choose Well. – Attorney J. Burton Hunter III : Attorney J. Burton Hunter III (hunterlawfirm.net)...

January 1, 2013

2013 New Year Resolutions

...will help younger lawyers develop, provide information to those in need of legal services, and provide a steady stream of ideas for my professional associations, our judges, and even our College of Law. 7. As a sole practitioner, I go through phases. I have been writing steadily, but I need to return to “nuts and bolts” of developing a paperless office, optimizing the function of my iPad and iPhone, completing my Pathagorized Office Form Files, an...

February 14, 2016

The Maze of WV Child Custody Issues – Just Dropping Crumbs Won’t Get You Out

...se, our Sup. Ct. elevated “the best interests of the child” and the actual services and time a parent spends with a child, over a simple counting of “overnights”: thus, “substantial majority of parenting” may not mean the person who has 70% of the court-ordered “overnights”, as it did in the past I have detected a troubling trend in some judges and lawyers, especially Legal Aid lawyers, to minimize the Court’s requirement for “an alternate dispute...

February 24, 2010

Websites, Blogs, Practice Areas, Lawyers Who Fail to Communicate

...though I don’t like that title, industrial accidents, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, insurance claims of all types; also, my family law practice, child custody, contempt, alimony, division of property, called “equitable distribution”, domestic abuse, grandparents’ custody claims, and adoption; and, civil litigation such as will disputes, boundary line disputes, contract disputes, mineral and timber trespass. “Slip and Fall” is a shorthand...

March 15, 2014

Our Firm

...ce, including video conferencing. We do it all to provide you high quality legal services, keep you informed on the status of your case and promptly respond to inquiries. My staff includes a receptionist and billing clerk, an office manager, two bright, energetic paralegals and a mail/filing clerk. Key office staff started with me right out of high school and worked while they attended college as paralegals, and I have given them superior training...

January 24, 2018

A Personal Injury Glossary: Negligence, Insurance, and the Rest

...but, alas, often that’s when people don’t have a lawyer and give up their legal rights accidently. 20. Medical Malpractice: WV law permits recovery from medical providers who negligently deviate from “the standard of care”, with various strong limitations that have diminished medical malpractice claims in WV by ¾ in recent years. 21. “Deliberate Intent Claims”: are claims against an employer for industrial accidents and injuries that result from...

November 24, 2012

Children, Guardians Ad Litem, The Law, and Society

...ople are unable to protect their legal rights. 2. These folks are under a “legal disability”. 3. As I mention in another article, http://tinyurl.com/752vq78 , competent people can be temporarily under a form of legal disability. These people can execute a power of attorney to give another person the ability to sign their signature: a. A durable general power of attorney goes into effect immediately upon signing and delivering, and gives the attorn...

August 20, 2012

Domestic Violence and Family Court

...serious flaws. If that same parent goes to the WV Dept of Health and Human Services, Child Protective Services, WVDHHR, CPS, 90% of the time they will be turned away. In order to keep from being overwhelmed, the child abuse and neglect standards for review have been standardized and computerized. It is a strange, strange world. Try reading a CPS report and you will see what I mean. Believe it or not, and you had better believe it if you want to ne...