Law Practice Management
The average salary for law firm partners in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2021, but there remains a sizable gap between what male and female partners are paid. The average pay for part… Read More
Practice of Law
Want to become Boss of the Year? Offer to help your employees with their childcare responsibilities. How you do this – on-site day care, flexible hours, childcare benefits – is le… Read More
Business of Law
Here’s some risk management advice for litigators: don’t be tempted to copy portions of your adversary’s motion and paste it into your own. It won’t help your case, an… Read More
This news probably won’t come as a surprise, but practicing law is getting harder all the time. The usual suspects – market volatility, rising competition, economic uncertainty &n… Read More
Law Practice Management
If you want to get more clients per marketing dollar, start keeping closer tabs on Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV). CLTV is a marketing term that measures the investment and effort required to… Read More
Law Practice Management
Did you know your risk of a cyber breach increases every time an employee leaves your firm? And if the departure was acrimonious, your risk rises exponentially. “Some who feel their di… 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.