Education & Careers
Are you letting legal fees walk out the door, or never make it in? Sometimes clients believe that as an attorney you should be able to handle any and every legal matter. However, you may not b… Read More
Education & Careers
“Every day, people are forced to settle for less than they need or deserve. Why? Because their lawyer doesn’t really try cases; they only advertise on TV.” That’s from… Read More
Practice of Law
Uninsured Motorist Insurance carriers, unlike Underinsured Motorist Insurance carriers, must be formally served with process within the statute of limitations. Where a plaintiff seeks to bind… Read More
Risk Management
Sometimes good risk management is as plain as the nose on your face. Say, for instance your client brings a cheat sheet to a deposition. The sheet might be a summary of facts, a calendar of k… Read More
Practice of Law
If you give oral notice of a voluntary dismissal without prejudice and intend to re-file, do so within one year of the date you gave oral notice, not one year from the date you filed a stipula… Read More
Risk Management
You know Internet scams have become widespread when a member of the Federal Trade Commission – whose job is to protect consumers from cyber-crooks – admits getting burned by a scam… Read More
Education & Careers
Remember the “churn that bill, baby” email scandal that rocked international law firm DLA Piper several years ago? The controversy arose as the firm was embroiled in a 2012 billin… Read More
Risk Management
Because so much time is spent out of the office, we have several ways to reconnect. Laptops, smartphones, flash drives, and blue tooth headsets are just a few of the convenient ways to lose cl… Read More
Education & Careers
Imagine waking up to find you’re the star of a viral Facebook video captioned “Lawyer Caught on Camera in Drunken Uber Rage.” A nightmare, right? Yet this experience was all… Read More
Business of Law
I dreamed the other night that Deflategate would never end. In my dream, Tom Brady was battling the NFL forever. Appeals went on and on. Now and then a new wrinkle would emerge. A locker-room … 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.