Luke Sbarra is a Partner at Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP in Charlotte, NC. His practices focuses on professional liability, premises liability, construction defect, and commercial litigation. He is the 2015 Chair of the Lawyers’ Professional Liability Committee of the Professional Liability Defense Federation and is listed in the North Carolina Rising Stars list, published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazine, in 2010- 2015.
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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.