Education & Careers
Millennial lawyers say the traditional law practice model is broken beyond repair – but even so, many say making partner at their present firm is their number one goal. And three-quarte… Read More
Risk Management
For the first time ever, digital advertising – led by Facebook and Google – has eclipsed not only print advertising but also TV and radio as well. Advertisers in the US will spend… Read More
Education & Careers
Take a look around your office: what you see today will likely appear much different tomorrow. That’s because law firms – how they look, feel and function – are undergoing a… Read More
Education & Careers
A simple sentence of less than 10 words could attract close to 20 percent more clients to your practice. No, the magic words are not: “Hire me and all your legal dreams will come true.&… Read More
Education & Careers
Congratulations! You’ve reached the end of our Lawyers in Transition series. We hope along the way you picked up some pointers, insights, and nuggets to inspire you on the next step of … Read More
Education & Careers
There is a cheap and easy way to boost referrals to your law practice. Just ask for more business. Of course this sounds obvious. Self-evident. Yet many lawyers – possibly including you… Read More
Education & Careers
To market your law firm in a new and creative way, consider giving out earbuds, backpacks or sugar cookies with your logo on it. Ditch the tired old refrigerator magnets, desk calendars and k… Read More
Education & Careers
If you want to get and keep top young legal talent, create a firm culture based on principles that are important to them. Here are four to start with: diversity, inclusion, environmental sust… Read More
Education & Careers
File this under Casual Fridays Gone Wild: one BigLaw firm has changed its dress code to allow employees to wear jeans whenever they want. Dechert LLP – with close to 1,000 lawyers in 27… Read More
Education & Careers
Here’s some free risk management advice: it’s a bad idea to let the air out of the tires of a car parked in front of your garage. It’s also ill-advised to squirt glue in the… Read More
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.