Education & Careers
You can meet your annual State Bar requirements online – and at your convenience – with minimal sweat, stress and strain. Our on-demand videos bring the experts to your office. Th… Read More
Practice of Law
Planning a Fall Cleanup at your office? Better be careful how you dispose of that old office equipment. If it happens to fall into the wrong hands, you could find yourself in trouble with the… Read More
Law Practice Management
Follow the money. That phrase is often applied to the investigation of political scandals. But it also applies to the tactics of cyber-scammers. “Following the money” is the appr… Read More
Risk Management
Ethics pop quiz: is blaming the “generation gap” a valid defense to a Bar complaint that accuses you of inappropriate behavior with court employees? Answer: who knows? But we mig… Read More
Law Practice Management
If you’re like most people, you probably use the same password for more than one online account. That’s a mistake. “Password security has always been relevant, but it … Read More
Business of Law
Selling legal services is not like selling widgets. A bevy of ethical rules and professional restraints limit what lawyers can do and say in marketing their practices. Some rules &ndas… 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.