Practice of Law
Lawyers are showing up as cats, litigants are imbibing alcohol, and witnesses are having their hair done. All of these real-life mishaps have occurred during video court proceedings i… Read More
Practice of Law
A new practice specialty in Child Welfare Law has been proposed by the NC State Bar. At its January meeting, the State Bar council published the proposal and requested comments … Read More
Practice of Law
Have you reported your 2020 pro bono hours yet? Don’t worry, it’s not mandatory to report your pro bono efforts – or even to do pro bono work at all. But Rule of Pr… Read More
Risk Management
A new State Bar ethics opinion addresses a lawyer’s professional duties in the event of a fraudulent wire transfer in a real property transaction. The opinion is NC 2020 FEO 5, … Read More
Practice of Law
The NC State Bar opened 927 new grievance files against attorneys in 2020, down from the 1,258 files opened in 2019. Over the course of the year, the Grievance Committee considered 76… Read More
Business of Law
If you want to attract new business, stop thinking like a lawyer and start thinking like a client. Put yourself in the shoes of a prospective client. How do they go about finding a la… 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.