law practice management
The Notary’s Crucial Role in Legal Practices: Protect Your Firm From Avoidable Risks
This article is a corrected and updated version of the earlier article. Please use this version of the article. In North Carolina, active members of the NC State Bar are granted a unique and limited privilege under the State’s Notary Act: they are exempt from the mandatory notary education course and examination. Instead, the state…
Read MoreThe Search for the Perfect Water Bulb
Like many lawyers, I tend to assume that more research, more revisions, and more analysis is almost always a good thing. Recently, my colleague Warren Savage shared a podcast that challenged my thinking. In an episode of The Gray Area, host Sean Illing interviewed David Epstein about his book Inside the Box: How Constraints Make…
Read MoreAttorney-Paralegal Relationships – A Winning Team that Makes a Practice Thrive
The Carolina Hurricanes brought home the Stanley Cup because they excel at working together and being a team. Similarly, the attorney, paralegal, and other law office staff form a team that must work together effectively for the firm to reach its full potential. Creating a strong attorney-paralegal relationship is a win for both. It results…
Read MoreERISA Bonds: A Practical Compliance Requirement for Law Firm Leadership
Law firms that offer employee benefits—such as 401(k) or profit-sharing plans—take on an important responsibility: safeguarding those assets. One often-overlooked but essential compliance requirement is the ERISA bond. For managing partners and office managers, understanding ERISA bonding is not just a technical detail—it’s a matter of risk management, regulatory compliance, and fiduciary duty. What Is…
Read MoreRiding Shotgun: When Pushy Clients Take the Wheel
Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that every mass attracts every other mass in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. I have no idea what that means. But I do know that gravity operates with remarkable consistency inside…
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