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March 22, 2010

Common Mistakes of Divorcing Parties

...risis Brochure. “Put-downs, insults, threats, and “mental games”, damaging personal property, injuring or threatening pets, and violence and the threat of violence”. Watching people with these problems interact during a mediation is absolutely fascinating. Their inability to think constructively, avoid recrimination, and resist attempts at domination, is stunning. There are people who can help such folks reduce the conflict, at least so they can r...

July 7, 2010

So, You Think A Divorce May Be In Your Future?

...ou should make an inventory, when your spouse is away, and photograph your personal belongings and real estate. But, don’t then leave your notes and photos lying around. And don’t think you can leave them in the glove box, the treasure trove for nosy spouses, second only to your MySpace and FaceBook, for valuable divorce evidence. 3. If you can, come up with realistic estimates of the value of these used things. You may be surprised at how much is...

December 28, 2010

Tech Feedback with Blog Readers

...sues that arise therefrom. If you have a broader range of needs, including personal writing, memoir, family history, genealogy, appellate work, etc., then you definitely are going to want to store, organize, index, and be able to locate every kind of “document”. Assuming you want to benefit from current technology, you need, as a minimum, a good laptop, capable of handling multiple tasks. If you have staff, you will want a network capability so th...

January 31, 2011

Can Lawyers Collaborate to Their and Their Clients’ Benefit?

...very satisfying to me. I have a mailing list of around 200 lawyers I know personally. I write to this group on topics I feel may be of interest to them. Many of my letters are tech oriented, as are some of these articles. Recently, I got a very kind response from Attorney/Mediator Scott Curnutte of Elkins. Scott is one of the 3-4 best mediators I have ever worked with, especially on Family Law issues. As some of my readers know, I have strongly e...

July 15, 2011

Practical Technology 102

...our default. You will want to make sure you are scanning to your client or personal folders “searchable PDF” files; otherwise, you may have difficulty searching within the body of the document. Here is a great way to do legal, or any kind of, research. Go to your legal research software. I use Fastcase. Many Lawyers use WestNext and others Lexis/Nexis. Take the cases cited by your opponent, and the cases you find, and line them up in the queue for...

August 12, 2011

Protecting Our Reputations

...the client, as this one did, scared my staff and advised he would show up personally at my office every day until I “made” the other lawyer respond to my letters and calls. I will “yell” if her or she violates a domestic violence, or restraining order, and I will withdraw from a case where the client persistently disobeys the court or ignores my advice. My theory is that I cannot help such people, so I move on to people that I can help. 5. I kick...

November 20, 2011

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

...ligation is to my client. But that does not mean I am your enemy or have a personal vendetta against you. 3. That said; this may surprise you. I am fundamentally fair, have decided long ago never intentionally to mislead my opponents, and will focus as hard I can on the best interests of any minor children. 4. That does not mean that I never bluff or hide our “true bottom line”. There is a difference between serious negotiations, positions taken a...

January 3, 2012

Hello 2012; An Avalanche of Change

...valuable information, answers to their questions, informative videos, and personal information about me. Just as finding a good restaurant, hotel, or travel agency is enhanced by internet research, the task of choosing a lawyer is enhanced by using the Internet. Having spent the last two years actively posting my views, photos, videos, and blog posts, I plan, in the first quarter of 2012, to publish my first book. Initially, it will be an Amazon...

February 6, 2012

Burt’s Criticism of Religion and Religiosity

...ofoundly right to me when it comes to behavior, do we have to objectify a “personal savior” who sits around worrying about me all the time? Why tell our children fables and silliness about Jesus’ doing supernatural things, awakening the dead, changing water into wine, calming seas. and multiplying fish? Why cannot we focus on his teachings and not his party tricks? This comes from a fellow who got his older cousin to admit to him, when he was five...

March 9, 2012

Post Script

...in offices with the monstrosities they created. If Woz had had a stronger personality or marketing sense, perhaps Jobs could have been sent back to his Buddhist retreat, eating carrots and drinking his fruit juice, and never bathing. We are finally beginning to get to do some really neat tech savvy stuff. I intend to stay current. Still, it is a shame to have formerly valuable machines that have no intrinsic value beyond being a door stop. As I l...