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West Virginia Lawyer - Tips and
Techniques
Some Ideas for My Fellow Lawyers
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Contents
West Virginia Lawyer - Tips and Techniques 5
Burt's Picks of 11 Important Websites 6
Paperless Office 7
Getting Feedback 9
How I Got My Score Over 50 on Klout.com; Bird by Bird 10
Why did you kick me out of your offfice? 14
Doing the Right Thing 15
Co-parenting iPhone/iPad App 17
Technology Review 17
Another Victory in the Tech Revolution - Dictation 17
Two Tips : Time Billing and Resources 19
Practical Tips For Lawyers 8-14-2012 20
The Delusion of Klout.com; a Lesson in Ego Deflation 23
Why Klout Went Klunk 23
Mediation: Practical Considerations 24
Staples and Commas 26
Hanging Out Your Shingle - Not for the Faint of Heart 27
Sharing is Good 32
Two Posts From My Blog, Perspectives of Small Town Lawyer 33
The WV State Bar Referral Service - Leaping Into the New 34
Millenium
The Proper Care and Feeding of Mediators 36
The Education of the Perfect Paralegal 36
Moving From Blogger? Or not really? 41
Burt's Nerdy Videos, Pathagoras Document Assembly, and the 43
Sony rx1...
3The Value of a Working Vacation 43
LOW TECH, SUSPENSE, SUSPENSE, SUSPENSE! 48
LOW TECH - PRIORITIZATION 48
Practical Technology Tips For a Small Family Practice 49
J. Burton Hunter III's WV Supreme Court Cases 49
Dragon for iPhone - Simple Tip 50
Burt's Letter to His New Clients - From Perspectives of a Small 52
Tow...
Internet Learning Opportunities - Evernote and Lynda.com 52
Post Script for Lynda.com and Evernote: 09-30-2013 55
Family Law Practice Tip - Equitable Distribution and Alimony 56
Spread...
The Dream of a "Paper-LESS" Office is a Reality 61
More Correspondence with Baron Henley - Dear Colleages, 62
January 1, ...
Letter to Colleagues, Friends, and Family - A Pathagoras 67
(Document ...
Experiments with : File Disposal - The Microsoft Surface Pro 2 68
as a...
The Microsoft Surface Pro 2; some thoughts. New Potential for 70
Doubl...
The Challenges of Microsoft Office's Access Relational 71
Database.
Nerd's Notes: The Journey to Make the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 71
a Des...
4West Virginia Lawyer - Tips and Techniques
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Above is the title to my first post, and to this blog. For two years I have authored
"Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer". After editing it several times, I uploaded it last
month as an Amazon Kindle book. Price is $2.99, but if you e-mail at
hunterjb@hunterlawfirm.net, I will send you the link to the DropBox folder which contains
the PDF file of my book. You may "copy and paste" to your laptop or, even better, to your
iPad. Please do not "cut and paste. Amy favorable comments or reviews on Amazon will
be deeply appreciated.
The slant of "Tips and Techniques" will be shorter posts aimed primarily at my colleagues
and a few judges. Potential clients may check it out if only to see whether I am "up to
snuff" with office technology and procedures. I am.
This week, I found myself headed to Butler Pa. for a deposition. I knew what I wanted to
asked but had not had time to write out the questions. While my wife Nancy drove, I
spoke into my iPhone, to Dragon Dictation. Dragon is now limited to one small page, so it
took 7-8 e-mails to my paralegal Letetia before my outline of questions was complete. I
did some simple editing.
Moments later the edited PDF file arrived to my iPhone. We drove into a Sheets parking
lot, downloaded the e-mail, opened the file, and there were 38 questions, with sub-parts.
It was great to scoll forward and back as I asked the doctor my questions. It beat trying to
write out questions on a yellow pad, making it much easier to move questions and
subjects around.
West Virginia Lawyer - Tips and Techniques 5Also this week, I received a small device ordered from Amazon.com.It was a five star
rated tri-pod mount for my iPhone 4s. Cost $20, but it holds the iPhone firmly for photos
or video. The image quality is excellent, as it the sound. Looks like I will put my JVC
Everio into semi-retirement. I am working on a new set of videos for my YouTube
Channnel JBHunterIII.
The next purchase will probably need to be a new iPad with 3G and wi-fi. We are nearing
the point where out entire office network drive will be "in the cloud". That means the once
unbelievable will be routine. Every single document in my office will be available to me at
any time via the startlingly clear iPad. That should lead to a download of the app Trial
Pad. The iPad will not yet replace a Windows 7 laptop, but it sure can replace the yellow
pad and trial file folder.
That's enough for my first post, except:
1. E-mail me at hunterjb@hunterlawfirm.net and I will send you a link to my book and/or a
Dropbox folder to an ever growing folder of various articles, forms, and checklists that I
have found to be helpful. I will add to it regularly.
2. My professional site is still www.hunterlawfirm.net .
3. My blogs are www.burtonhunteresq.blogspot.com and
www.burtonhunteresq2.blogspot.com .
4. My most recent YouTube videos are at my channel, JBHunterIII.
Burton Hunter
Burt's Picks of 11 Important Websites
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
I had this "Dear Colleague" mailing list. There we around 200 lawyers, some business
and professional people, and friends I would write to them when I came upon something
of interest. The motivation was:
1. I like to share stuff and show off; always have. That may be why I liked the 4-H club
demonstrations and exhibits that we required to do back in Ohio County, WV.
2. I figured they would spread the word about how bright and competent I am and think of
me for referrals and associations.
Occasionally I received notes of heartfelt thanks. But, mostly, people are too busy for
such things. Even when I sent out a form or sample that they could use every day in their
practice, not many did. Eventually half the addresses became outdated. (Old technology.)
So, I wrote to my last "Dear Colleague" letter recently,
giving recipients the link to this blog, www.burtonhunteresq2.blogspot.com ,
my Findlaw professional website, www.hunterlawfirm.net ,
6 West Virginia Lawyer - Tips and Techniquesmy first blog "Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer" www.burtonhunteresq.blogspot.com
which is now an Amazon Kindle Book,
and my e-mail hunterjb@hunterlawfirm.net.
Any of them who care to can subscribe to this blog and get notices whenever I post
something,so thus ends my
e-mailed "Dear Colleague Letter".
So, here are some of the most useful and informative websites I have ever encountered!
1. The website to Howard Nations Lawfirm, with great links to invaluable sites:
http://www.howardnations.com/index.shtml
2. Craig Ball's Sampler to discovery links: http://www.craigball.com/hotlinks.html
3. Craig Ball's Website, with links and resources for legal technology:
http://www.craigball.com/articles.html 4. The WV State Bar Website:
http://www.wvbar.org/ 5. The WV Supreme Court of Appeals Website:
http://www.courtswv.gov/
6. The Link to an article by a Google VP on the new wave of Internet Marketing, The Zero
Moment of Truth: http://www.zeromomentoftruth.com/google-zmot.pdf 7. Roy Lazris's
fabulous informative site on the document assembly application Pathagoras, with a free
90 download trial version, videos, and short and long manuals:
http://www.pathagoras.com/
8. The Medline medical research site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pmresources.html
9. Tiny URL, the website to that allows you to convert a looooong url into a short one.
This helps with posts to Facebook, and has many other uses: http://tinyurl.com/
10. Trial Guides and David Ball's website. Not, to my knowledge, related to Craig Ball. He
is a superlative trial consultant and author of David Ball on Damages and Reptile:
http://www.trialguides.com/authors/david-ball/ ; and related thereto, see:
http://www.reptilekeenanball.com/
11. Dan Ringer's classic show The Law Works. This is a vast archive of insights into WV
Law. Don't forget to search "Rural Law". No; that's not Paul Newman.
http://www.wvpubcast.org/lawworks.aspx
Paperless Office
Thursday, April 12, 2012
An echo from my Dear Colleague Letter arrived in my inbox yesterday. (This blog is my
replacement for the letter I had been sending periodically to a mailing list of colleagues I
had devised. When nearly 1/3 of the addresses got out of date and bounced back, I
decided to try another route.)
Elkins Lawyer Scott Curnutte was kind enough to respond to the three forms I had
devised for helping clients create "object lists". Objects are the people, documents,
events, physical objects, places and things that populate a case. I will send you the
forms; just write me at hunterjb@hunterlawfirm.net . If I don't write back promptly, you
may be in my spam filter. I check that weekly. Or give me a call, 304 472-7477.
Scott has slightly different definitions for the information he collects, but he has the
programming skills to have his own database for organizing the facts that make up the
case.I still use the commercial product, CaseMap and related programs by
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