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March 7, 2018

2021 Revised: Digging Down – On Organizing and Preparing Your Case

...All those pieces must be present for the Court to “picture” the case. In a personal injury claim there are witnesses to the collision, an investigating officer, emergency personnel, photographs, the accident report, cell phone records, medical bills, medical records, journals, lay witnesses who know my client well, expert witnesses, and myriad other “puzzle pieces”. In a real estate dispute there are deeds, wills, deeds of trust, angry neighbors (or...

July 1, 2010

Burt’s Answer to J.B. (I mean Joe)

...f not, they can “hide” me! Ouch. I am a very intense, small town, personal injury, family law, and civil, trial attorney. Today I am working with my paralegal Letetia we are working to get a “pre-birth order” entered for some surrogate parents, of twins! They live out of state. The “carrier” mom lives locally, and the fetuses are the biological children of the couple who lives out of state. These folks have outraced our adoption statute, and I hav...

July 30, 2012

...l consultant, not a representative. I can give some guidance outside of my personal injury, family law, civil lawsuit, and mediation practice areas, but it’s usually to guide you to a good resource or a lawyer. If we cannot represent you, we still want to help you. My law office is conveniently located one block from the courthouse in Buckhannon, West Virginia, One West Main Street. I am available for evening and weekend appointments. If you are u...

November 1, 2010

How an Attorney Can Be a Good Adversary

...nt numbers, and account balances. 3. The equivalent to this information in personal injury claims is all medical bills and records, documentation of lost wages and benefits, client diaries, and “lay witness letters” describing the claimant’s behavior before and after the collision. 4. A good adversary, when assigned to do an order by the Court , completes that order in less than a week, copies the other party, allows input when possible, and does...

July 23, 2022

Enhancing the Human Brain 2022. 2.0

...reve in creating modules for billing and time management, client data, and personal injury practice management. We use those systems today. They still work. Service providers want $10,000-$15,000 to convert our data to a new system. We can do a “conflict search” back over 40 years! As I have a five year window before I hang it up, I probably won’t convert. But look below for a good practice management system, Clio. This is the icon for you Apple i...

August 31, 2010

Social Media for Lawyers, and Real People

...t I still doubt I can make it work. I just don’t know if divorce, personal injury law, and civil litigation, can generate enough interest to generate “followers” to my tweets. But, I think it is the combination that may work in time. I have 255 Facebook Friends. It could be 1000, but I have been very careful. I backed off at 120, below 100, and started anew. I accept or request people I really know, sometimes a close relative of someone I know, so...

November 1, 2010

How an Attorney Can Be a Good Adversary

...nt numbers, and account balances. 3. The equivalent to this information in personal injury claims is all medical bills and records, documentation of lost wages and benefits, client diaries, and “lay witness letters” describing the claimant’s behavior before and after the collision. 4. A good adversary, when assigned to do an order by the Court , completes that order in less than a week, copies the other party, allows input when possible, and does...

April 22, 2015

A Proposal on Behalf of New and Small Firm WV Lawyers – A Turnkey Office Technology System

...or contacts calendar and tasks, and separate proprietary databases for our personal injury practice and another for our client data and billing. They are not systems I can sell or give away, nor can I give them up, because replacing them will be cost prohibitive. That is why every young attorney should get fully established in a long term, full-featured, practice management software application at the beginning. Even if he/she later switches, the...

October 13, 2014

Nuts and Bolts of Preparing For Your Deposition

...ess such as your spouse’s “paramour”. Depositions are the norm in personal injury, medical malpractice, industrial accident, and insurance bad faith cases. I know one, only one, lawyer who routinely takes depositions in order to run up costs and cow the opposition. I have seen it succeed, and it disgusts me. Let’s assume you are a plaintiff in an auto accident, or the petitioner in a divorce. What do you need to do in order to prepare? 1. I ask my...

November 18, 2017

Mediation Food for Thought

...ration and as of the date of mediation, and know and document your assets (personal property such as cars and furniture; real property such as house or farm, and retirement benefits such as a 401K plan or pension). If alimony (spousal support) is an issue, read the alimony statute, West Virginia Code – Sections: 48-6-301, 48-8-104, and make a list of relevant facts (Length of marriage, relative incomes, age and health of parties, fault, etc.) Fami...