Risk Management
Here’s a risk management reminder: careless handling of a privileged communication can jeopardize its privileged status. This can include inadvertently showing, sharing or sending it to… Read More
Law Practice Management
If you want to maximize the productivity of employees working from home, stop micromanaging them. Studies show performance improves when workers have a degree of control over where, when and … Read More
Practice of Law
A client may retain a public insurance adjuster who will be paid a contingency fee from any recovery – and the client’s attorney can even call the adjuster as an expert witness at … Read More
Risk Management
First the bad news: blown statutes of limitation and other critical deadlines are the leading cause of malpractice claims. The good news: with a little effort and the right systems, you can d… Read More
Law Practice Management
If you want to create a law office team that is loyal, hard-working and super-productive, don’t focus on their salary or benefits. Give them autonomy instead. “Providing employee… Read More
Business of Law
Lawyers are natural born storytellers – and if you have a good one to tell, there’s a new publishing house that wants to hear from you. LMCS Press is a full-service publishing hou… 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.