Education & Careers
Did you know September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month? According to the Center for Disease Control, lawyers rank fourth in the rate of suicide in terms of professions, and have… Read More
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Check out this week’s SRC Friday post written by YOU! Yes, you reading this post. Our Student Resource Center was developed with law students in mind and we would love to have law studen… Read More
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When I first decided to go to law school two thoughts ran through my mind: (1) This is exciting and (2) What are you thinking? Here I was, a full time hospital social worker, who vowed after t… Read More
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The heart-wrenching story of a high-powered patent lawyer who died after a long – and largely secret – struggle with substance abuse should be required reading for every practition… Read More
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Is the LSAT a good way to decide who gets into law school? Would other tests – specifically the GRE – work just as well? Or should the requirement of the LSAT or any other entranc… Read More
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A trending website can help you find the perfect mobile app to boost your practice. Apps in Law offers reviews and recommendations via short videos and podcasts. The reviewers are real, live … Read More
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The immediate impact of Hurricane Harvey is subsiding, and while there will continue to be damage from ongoing flood correction measures, the focus now turns to clean up and recovery. Here in… Read More
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On my summer vacation, I traveled with my wife and her mother to the Emerald Isle. No, not Emerald Isle, North Carolina, but the Republic of Ireland. I would like to share a bit of our wonderf… Read More
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It appears time is running out for Charlie Hustle to make it into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Peter Edward Rose – the man with more base hits than anyone else to ever pl… Read More
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This year Lawyers Mutual celebrates its 40th birthday – a milestone it happens to share with a blockbuster court ruling that changed the practice of law. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court… 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.