Risk Management
Is your cyber response team trained, fully staffed and ready to swing into action if needed? If your answer to that question was – “Cyber response team? What cyber response team?&… Read More
Practice of Law
Even though an attorney’s name was listed on her husband’s law office letterhead, she can’t be held liable for his alleged malpractice when there was no actual partnership ag… Read More
Risk Management
As if you didn’t already have enough to worry about with cybersecurity, now we learn that Google Calendar might be a minefield and Flash video player could be a ticking bomb. More than … Read More
Risk Management
Missed deadlines only happen to bad lawyers, right? Wrong. Even the best of attorneys can miss an important date or deadline. It happens because the attorney is stressed, distracted, or too b… Read More
Risk Management
If you’re relying solely on your email spam filter to ward off phishing attacks, you’re making a mistake. That’s true even if your filter blocks the overwhelming majority of… Read More
Risk Management
If you’re thinking about offering a prize to anyone who likes you on Facebook, better think again. You might be asking for a State Bar grievance. The State Bar ethics committee has pro… Read More
Risk Management
Documentation is not just a good idea – it might prevent a complaint to the State Bar or a lawsuit for malpractice. This starts with the first contact with a prospect, perhaps before yo… Read More
Risk Management
Here’s a statistic that may shock you: less than 10 percent of prospective clients ever get to speak to a lawyer when they call a law firm. They either talk with a receptionist, assista… Read More
Education & Careers
What can we do in the face of Mother Nature to protect ourselves and our clients? Hopefully, you have a plan and procedure in place (and have urged clients over the years to do the same). If… Read More
Risk Management
When you think of disasters that can disrupt your practice, you probably imagine hurricanes, floods and other large-scale events. But small-scale interruptions – from a power outage to … 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.