Risk Management
Cyber-criminals are launching strikes against government record sites nationwide, temporarily crippling the Register of Deeds offices in 13 North Carolina counties.Beginning in late 2022, reco… Read More
Are there any cat fanciers in your law office? If so, are they “conscientious caretakers” or “tolerant guardians?” Or maybe they’re “laissez-faire landlord… Read More
Education & Careers
Here’s great news if you need last-minute CLE for 2022 and want to take your practice to the next level in 2023. The popular Lawyers Mutual “Put Into Practice” CLE road sh… Read More
Law Practice Management
Despite sweeping changes in law office technology, one thing hasn’t changed: clients still want and expect excellent service. And if your firm doesn’t deliver it, they’ll fin… Read More
Risk Management
When you hear the word “plagiarism,” you probably think of student essays and literary works, not legal work product. And yet lawyers can be plagiarists as easily as high schooler… Read More
Law Practice Management
You don’t have to bust your budget to get top-quality Search Engine Optimization. There are lots of available tools – most of them free – that can do it for you. “Sea… 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.