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September 25, 2013

A Small Town Lawyer’s Opinion on Keeping One’s Views to One’s Self.

...r. Oates, and will check him out on Amazon Prime streaming video. The interaction between the feisty, religious, 14 year old girl, seeking to avenge the death of her father, and one eyed Rooster Cogburn is fabulous. She saw something in him which she adjudged to be “true grit”, and she wasn’t wrong. Someone like this, of course. Nicest gal I know. I want the kind of client who is like that girl: fundamentally decent, desiring to have justice done,...

July 19, 2012

Two Tips : Time Billing and Resources

...d, since I have 4-5 assistants, allow me to recover something for our interaction without actually having to bill separately for their time. That saves the clients money too! 2. My second “tip” is that I continue to add dozen of articles, forms, and checklists to a DropBox folder that I called “Colleague Articles”. For colleagues I know, I am happy to “share” this DropBox folder. I respect copywrites so I share with a limited number of people and...

September 16, 2013

The Lack of Privacy in the Modern Age

...and named the iPad “our gadgets and gizmos” as prime culprits in our distraction from God and our gifts to the church. 2. It is a common view but utterly lacking of any recognition of the power of these “gadgets and gizmos”, with greater computing and communicating power than could be had by all the Kings and Queens that ever lived until recently. 3. It did not distinguish the power for good and accomplishment these devices have from the harm and...

August 30, 2013

Why Should My Lawyer Know Technology

...been negotiated, a subrogation claim taken care of, or a real estate transaction concluded. 6.. The lawyer with DropBox, iCloud , Google’s Cloud Service, Evernote, etc., can carry your file to trial in his iPad or laptop. 7. The lawyer with World Docs or Carbonite can have his entire office on his laptop or iPad. 8. The lawyer with a new iPad or iPhone, has Seri to create reminders and calendar entries, or to find restaurants or hotels. 9. Fourte...

July 18, 2013

The State of Florida v. George Zimmerman – and Our System of Justice

...bound by an arbitration agreement that prohibits them from bringing class action claims against American Express, even if the cost of arbitrating antitrust claims on an individual basis is prohibitive. American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, No. 12–133 (June 20, 2013) (“American Express“). The Court, in an opinion penned by Justice Scalia, concluded that nothing in the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) allows courts to invalidate a contrac...

July 18, 2013

Personal Injury Urban Myths – The Phonebooth – The Other Side of the Story.

...Presidency. That’s when a lot of these “tort reform” ideas began to gain traction. Turns out that the drunk driver had little or no liability insurance. The permanently injured plaintiff was using the phone when he saw the car coming. He attempted to leave the booth, but the door was stuck in a closed position. The pedestrian was a “sitting duck”. “Discovery” revealed that several complaints had been filed by frazzled customers who had been stuck...

May 11, 2013

Burton Hunter’s Letter to New Clients

...something, reply, forward, check my calendar, walk across the room. Those actions forward your case. I tend to copy several of my staff. The billing clerk does her thing, as does the paralegal, scheduling clerk, and receptionist. Like it or not, I find it a fair and reasonable method of “keeping score”. d. Accusatory #2: “You just don’t understand.” With 40+ years’ experience and 5000 cases, 3000 of which were family law, I usually DO understand....

March 6, 2013

Fundamental Precautions – Before and After Your Serious Collision

...wheelchair in corner, lying in that recliner, with your arm in a cast in traction and your leg in a large metal brace. Your spouse is frazzled and anxious. You can’t get the noise of the collision out of your head. Nor can you forget the $80,000 of medical bills you have received, much, or all, of which is not covered by a medical insurance. If you are “lucky”, you were hit by a Fed Ex truck. In such cases, caused by the driver of a commercial veh...

December 12, 2012

The Client is The Boss, or is S/He?

...written on this topic before in “The Dilemma of the Difficult Client, Oct. 22, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/c9bfplx . Recently I have pondered the question of how much is the client the boss, and should she or he “be the boss”. The short answer is, “Of course the client is the boss. They pay our fees.” In some cases the client clearly is the boss. Guardians Ad Litem, of who I recently wrote, can be appointed to be legal guardian of a child or elderly...

February 25, 2022

On Learning New Things: Video-casting and “Text to Voice”

...“multitask” and “read” while you are walking or driving. Yep, another distraction in a distracted world. But, if you have a several-hour drive and a research paper or document or even book to read, it can be a Godsend. I selected Gwyneth Paltro’s voice as my narrator. Currently, I am listening to the 68 page “Manual for Guardians and Conservators in WV.” Here below are some resources in case you care to get started. I recommend this for teachers,...