Education & Careers
It seems nice lawyers don’t always finish last after all, at least when it comes to career success. New research shows that being “aggressively Machiavellian” doesn’… Read More
Risk Management
Even though the Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit lawyers from representing clients with adverse interests, it’s not always easy to determine when clients’ interests are so … Read More
Business of Law
When you hear the phrase “electronic document review,” you might get a headache thinking of all the stress and expense that’s involved. But document review doesn’t h… Read More
Risk Management
Did you know that working from a coffeeshop could be one of the riskiest moves a remote employee can make? Even though cyber criminals are using increasingly sophisticated technology,… Read More
Education & Careers
Legal education has been completely upended by COVID, as law school students and professors struggle with remote learning and concerns about the future. And the transition has been harder f… Read More
Practice of Law
The 2020 trend of Zoom trials and Youtube court proceedings won’t end when the pandemic is over. That’s because videoconferencing has become an essential aspect of litigation. A… 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.