NC eCourts CLE is Available
A one-hour CLE on the five-year eCourts initiative from the NC Administrative Office of Courts is now available online. The on-demand course, From Paper to Digital: The eCourts Update… Read More
A one-hour CLE on the five-year eCourts initiative from the NC Administrative Office of Courts is now available online. The on-demand course, From Paper to Digital: The eCourts Update… Read More
An opinion that addresses ethical pitfalls in contemporaneous residential real estate closings has been issued by the NC State Bar. In 2021 Formal Ethics Opinion 1, approved at the St… Read More
One lesson the pandemic made painfully clear is the importance of being an early adapter. Firms that were prepared to deal with the overnight demand for video conferencing did fine, while tho… Read More
Confused like the rest of the universe about blockchain? Then what probably won’t help is to be told that blockchain is a complex type of distributed ledger technology housed on either … Read More
April was Guardian ad Litem and Child Advocate Month in North Carolina, but you can support the 5,000 GAL volunteers – or become a volunteer yourself – any day of the year. … Read More
A group of lawyers who took a “treasure trove” of proprietary data when they left a Boston law firm may be liable for unfair or deceptive business practices. That’s … 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.