244 Search Results for "personal injury"

July 11, 2012

Dominos or Popcorn – Does It Matter?

...l activity, weights, walking, dance, sport, cut back on portions and carbs, and decide that 70 is now the “standard” retirement age. Finally, time to suck it up,  and make universal health care work, but put in  preventive and holistic medicine! Demand some personal responsibility. P.S. : Cudos to our Welfare System for the recent announcement prohibiting the spending of welfare benefits on drugs, guns, alcohol and Cheetos! (So Bill Clintonish!”)...

December 31, 2014

My big changes for 2015; (Burt’s 2015 New Year’s Resolutions)

...legal education). 13. I will reevaluate how I communicate on the Internet, personally and professionally. 14. My goal is to push the limits of communication and education, including at least 50 more blog articles. 15. I will live this year as if I am approaching the beginning of the last decade of my professional career. 16. To this end, I must attend to nutrition, health, fitness, and weight! 16. Continuing goals, until I should decide to “hang i...

December 5, 2012

The WV State Bar Referral Service – Leaping Into the New Millenium

...ople will post criticism of lawyers should soon prove to be “no big deal”. Personal attacks on lawyers (SUCH AS ME!) can be quickly expunged. And, lawyers should have learned to have thick skins by now. 4. There is reason for the State Bar to be cautious. Former long time director Tom Tinder was an early adopter. My feeble memory has allowed the State Bar’s first Internet service to be lost to me, but it was innovative and gutsy to make the try. (...

March 6, 2013

Fundamental Precautions – Before and After Your Serious Collision

...Up your UM and UIM coverage, and if you can afford an “extra $200”, bet a personal umbrella but MAKE SURE the agent offers you UM and UIM coverage. In at least one extreme case, the agent did not and we had to recover under the agent’s “errors and omissions” coverage. Our state Delegate, Bill Hamilton, is co-sponsoring a bill this year to increase minimum coverages. I support it, but the real solution is to purchase the insurance protection you c...

September 16, 2013

The Lack of Privacy in the Modern Age

...to give us some grief by filing a motion to dismiss. c. The “rule” is that personal service of the complaint must be accomplished within 120 days, and we were 60 days into the 120 days. d. Letetia had searched for the fellow’s full name, but just could not find him. e. Finally, she found the announcement in nearby newspaper of the birth of his child, but no address, and nothing else under his “full name”. f. But, she also found his wife’s name and...

September 27, 2013

Internet Learning Opportunities – Evernote and Lynda.com

...ogspot.com , on some matters that have been bugging me, and to catch up on personal correspondence. I tend to post to FaceBook when I am on the computer, to the extent that my “Jiminy Cricket”, Ed Poor, cautioned me to back off a bit. I ignore him at my peril. Now Nancy advises this is “my time”; so ok Ed and Nancy, I won’t even proof this! I was determined to become reasonably acquainted with a research tool called Evernote, and to compare it wit...

December 8, 2013

Family Law Practice Tip – Equitable Distribution and Alimony Spreadsheets

...you to work in considerable detail. Even though we are fixed at around 30 personal property items, a dozen real properties, etc., I have never had problems adjusting. I list the major items (cars, boats, farm equipment), but for groups of items, I hit “=” and enter a series of assets ___ + ___ + ___ and hit enter to have the total appear. Thus, we can have 400 items clearly visible. c. I complete this form with the client, asking her to circle ea...

January 3, 2014

More Correspondence with Baron Henley – Dear Colleages, January 1, 2014

...fective Time Management, Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Live” by Seiwert and Woeltje. It has many useful tips, but so far Outlook tasks has not been “My thing”. I also have tried hard with Evernote and am CERTAIN it is a solution to my problems. I took a 3-4 hour www.Lynda.comvideo class and wrote a blog article on it. Sorry, the search feature of my blogs is “temporarily – I hope” disabled. That’s a reason I am probabl...

April 26, 2014

Has Our Society Lost Something Essential in the Rearing of Its Youth?

...amazing, Charting. Gnothe Seaton (know thyself in Greek). We evaluated our personality and talents, and put together a plan for life. I kidded myself in some things, but it made me think about my life. j. We got to go to camp with girls, the prettiest girls God every made, and to walk them to their cabins, and once in a great while, to get a kiss good night.   k. Once I was selected, with two girls who did much better than I, to do an interview on...

February 3, 2013

Effective Preparation of a Case – For Mediation and Trial

...e, of course “objects” in your case.) b. Identify all assets, real estate, personal property, vehicles, cash, retirement funds, etc. and list them, and include them in our disclosure to the other side. c. Identify all debts, by creditor, account number, whether secured (car house) or unsecured (credit cards, medical bills). d. Ascertain all income, yours and your husband’s. e. In alimony cases, put together a plan of economic rehabilitation. And c...