Education & Careers
Every year Lawyers Mutual hosts our Put Into Practice: Risk Management Tips for Your Firm series. This year’s seminar will highlight topics such as: Mastering Conflicts of Interest Is… Read More
Education & Careers
Lawyers Mutual is seeking a video production intern for the fall semester. We are continuing to expand our risk management resources to include videos. We are looking for a… Read More
Business of Law
A firm in Atlanta is launching what it calls the first-ever hybrid law practice in the country. Taylor English Duma, which has about 150 lawyers, plans to hire partners to work remotely from … Read More
Education & Careers
I travel across the state for work and across the county getting to my office. As a result, I spent a good deal of time listening to podcasts. Here are my favorites from the summer of 2017. S… Read More
Risk Management
Here’s a little risk management exercise: go to your website right now and read your attorney bio. If it’s like most attorney bios, it provides a lot of data but little juice. Th… Read More
Education & Careers
This continues to be a time of disruption and transition in the legal field. As an example of the changes, we can look no further than the North Carolina State Bar’s (State Bar) on-again… Read More
Education & Careers
How many hours of online courses should law schools be allowed to offer? Should students have to complete a certain number of classroom hours before studying online? Can schools offer 100 per… Read More
Education & Careers
Part of the genius of the Nike slogan Just Do It is that it speaks to a fundamental – and empowering – truth about human nature. It feels good to Just Do It. Do what? Anything. To… Read More
Education & Careers
A robot lawyer that has helped hundreds of thousands of drivers beat traffic tickets without having to use an attorney has announced plans to expand into other practice areas. The legal chatb… Read More
Education & Careers
As its name suggests, Erdos Intellectual Property Law + Startup Legal champions entrepreneurs, individuals, innovators, and creatives. The firm's name is a homage to the Erdős number, a c… 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.