Paralegals and Legal Support Staff
How can you fill your law firm with loyal, enthusiastic and motivated workers? The answer is Enlightened Empowerment. Enlightenment means all team members know their individual roles and und… Read More
Paralegals and Legal Support Staff
In 2023, the paralegal community lost a dear friend, Kaye Summers. Let’s take a minute to honor Kaye and look back at her many contributions. Kaye won the 2013 Distinguished Paral… Read More
Paralegals and Legal Support Staff
Looking for yet another reason to hire a paralegal? Here’s one: they just might be the key to winning a million-dollar case. It happened in Chicago. The case has all the drama of an ep… Read More
Paralegals and Legal Support Staff
Twenty years ago, the North Carolina Supreme Court adopted the Plan for Certification of Paralegals. One year later, on July 1, 2005, the North Carolina State Bar Board of Paralegal Certificat… Read More
Paralegals and Legal Support Staff
In a tight job market such as we are currently experiencing poaching staff from other firms can be problematic for lawyers and firms. For the paralegals who are being wooed by rival firms wit… Read More
Risk Management
It is a common practice for lawyers to jointly represent a husband and wife in preparing an estate plan. Married couples often desire this arrangement, as they may save money by hiring a sin… 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.