Deanna Brocker is a principal in The Brocker Law Firm, P.A. She focuses her practice primarily on attorney ethics, licensing, and disciplinary matters. Previously, she served as Assistant Ethics Counsel for the N.C. State Bar for over 10 years, fielding telephone ethics questions and providing advice and written ethics advisory opinions to attorneys throughout the state. Deanna regularly speaks and publishes articles on ethics, professionalism and law practice management issues.
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Lawyers Mutual has published previous alerts regarding the new filing requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) that went into effect January 1, 2024. After reviewing additional resources, we want to emphasize concerns that we have about the risks and increased potential liability for lawyers undertaking the reporting requirements. This is especially true for the continuing reporting requirements after entity formation and initial reporting.
The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC) recently announced additional go-live plans for counties transitioning from paper files to Enterprise Justice (Odyssey), which currently serves Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Mecklenburg and Wake counties. Twelve northeastern counties comprising Track 3, as previously announced, will go live on February 5, and 10 counties comprising Track 4 (Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person, Vance and Warren) will go live on April 29.