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April 16, 2020

The Imperative of a Full Legal Check-up; an “Unbundled Legal Service”:

...omething that is “Important but not Urgent”. Of course, if you are on your death bed or headed into “the valley of the shadow of death”, it might be Important and Urgent. But most of the time we say, “Manana”. We think we have plenty of time. None of us can know that. A “legal checkup” is not only a simple will or pair of wills. We also prepare general and special powers of attorney, “durable” powers of attorney, medical powers of attorney, living...

March 1, 2018

Gun Violence in America: A Small Town Lawyer’s Thoughts

...and our difficulties in adjusting to accelerating change. 150 years ago, a death was tragic, but everyone in America did not get to share it in real time. And, vicious ideas could and did spread, but at the speed or a horse or boat or train. Now it is the speed of light. In the Wikipedia Age, the experts are hard to spot. Twenty years ago, we could trust The Encyclopedia Britannica to find to best scholars in their field and put one curated versio...

January 24, 2018

Grim News For a Troubled State: Are There Solutions?

...e @ 50%, and some states are in the 70’s or 80’s. We are highest in opioid deaths, obesity, diabetes, lowest in academic test scores, and pitiful in small business growth, which continues to drop even as gas production jumps, and coal a mild 10% increase. As I have mentioned before, but saw in the graph, WV has the highest ratio of “transfer funds” to private income in the United States. That’s more welfare, SSD, and SSI, WIIC, and the rest. Our p...

April 3, 2014

Table of Contents

...s can be very uplifting. … 2010/05/14 2010-05-14 21:52:00 Scumbags and the Death Penalty I used to be a strong proponent of the Death Penalty. Then, I used up a considerable amount of my … 2010/05/07 2010-05-07 22:33:00 Taze The kid? (2-9-2012) I am for tazing, at least in this instance. 1. If it were my kid, I would want him … 2010/05/05 2010-05-05 23:09:00 Something Constructive: How to Organize the Facts in Your Case Every case involves facts t...

November 12, 2013

How is Buddha Relevant to the World of A Small Town Lawyer?

...ng, practicing yoga, and being devout in every way, and nearly starving to death as an “ascetic”, he experienced Nirvana (not the music group). He abandoned reincarnation, decided he did not have thousands of past lives, decided he had never been an elephant, a monkey, or a snake. He realized he must focus on the here and now. He decided that starving himself into a trance, having hallucinations, and believing in an endless, recycling, “hereafters...

June 19, 2011

A Study In Hypocrisy

...amond (my title: “Taze the Kid?”, May 5, 2010) ; another was prompted by a death penalty story (my title: “Scumbags and the Death Penalty”, May 7, 2010). Usually I refrain from posting on politics to my blog, leaving that to Facebook. I am a militant “centrist”. The test I took on the Internet says I am 1% to the right of dead-center; fiscal conservative, social moderate. I posted to Facebook my indignation at NPR’s ousting of Juan Williams for ha...

August 20, 2012

Domestic Violence and Family Court

...uff knows that my family law practice has been touched by at least a dozen deaths; 8-9 suicides and 3-4 homicides. I defended one of those cases in a two week trial, and my partner and I invested 1000 hours (1/2 man year) into the monster. The client got out after a dozen years and has returned to farming. Two families were devastated. And I decided to give up felony criminal defense work. If a parent comes to the magistrates office, or calls the...

November 24, 2012

Children, Guardians Ad Litem, The Law, and Society

...m some guidance about your values and your wishes. 13. Then there are post-death wishes. This group is of people is REALLY impaired, since, short of a seance, they are beyond any ability, ever, to communicate with us. 14. Their wishes are determined by their “last will and testament” or, if no will, by W.V.’s laws of intestacy, which are beyond the scope of this article. Are you with me so far? I ask because I haven’t got to my subject yet! GUARDI...

March 9, 2016

How Much is Being Filmed Naked Worth? And Why?

...gen and Chevrolet with the swing axel Beetle and Corvair that were virtual death traps. Try finding a swing axel in any car company’s line-up these days. 4. Honda three wheelers being built without the $55.00 guard that prevented the spinning back wheel from deboning the operator’s leg from the knee down, and after one big verdict, offering it as an extra cost option! It took another big verdict before Honda would make that guard standard. 5. Gove...

September 17, 2021

HOW DOES A “GOOD LAWYER” STAY HEALTHY AND FIT FOR A LONG CAREER?

...with parents who smoked in our home, and who paid the price in their early deaths. Fortunately, I never took up the habit. Stay physically fit and try not to get injured. An injury to a moving or weight-bearing joint can have a rippling effect of reducing mobility, preventing the burning of calories, and interfering with movement in the rest of the body. There are things one can do, such as kneepads for yard work, the seatbelt in your car and trac...