...Here is a letter I drafted as a handout for new clients. And the “Legal Checklist” is an early article from one of my blogs. The URL to my blog Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer is at the end. http://tinyurl.com/d7vzdtg...
...s and Procedures Handbook” which needs many revisions and tweaks to be ready for “prime time”. I have created a DropBox folder with 85 such forms. Just write me at hunterjb@hunterlawfirm.net, and I shall send you a link to that folder. Let me know if mistakes or proposed improvements, and I shall gladly review your version. Practicing law is a process of constant change and improvement....
...Supreme Court will agree with me, but of course I think they should. I commend to you three books. The first is really three books bound in one volume, Edwin Newman’s, “On Language”, “Strictly Speaking”, and “A Civil Tongue”, originally published in 1974-76, by Galahad Books. Another is “You Are What You Speak; Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identify”, by Robert Lane Greene. I stopped reading it after Chapter 1, out of frustr...
...told my Findlaw rep that I had completed my 30 videos and he asked me to send it to him on disk. Instead, 10 minutes later, he had the files, which took me 12 hours to upload, on his desktop, using DropBox. Stay tuned, since people I trust say it is my best stuff so far. And I had FUN doing it. And, a young woman, with serious injuries caused by a reckless driver, scrolled the Findlaw lawyer listings using Google, found me with my background in t...
...p, cussed out, uplifted, back and forth. Plan for a pleasant morning? Deal with half dozen crises. Feel like giving up. Several new clients call in rapid succession. Feeling down, and even out, friends call, classmates post blog articles, wife sends a thoughtful note, cousins write to boost my spirits. It was an emotional roller coaster without a doubt, but the sun, having hidden all day, just poked out. Hope it is a good omen. Happy Memorial Day...
...ause they hear you are a “rip your throat out” kind of lawyer, that you intend to be polite, reasonable and honest with the other party. This is often contrary to their expectations, and it has taken me many years to figure out how to articulate this idea so the client won’t think you are “a wimp”. This is a particularly difficult challenge if you are “a wimp” and somewhat difficult to carry out in practice if you are naturally aggressive. 6. The...
