Erik graduated from Boston College Law School. After graduating, he worked in the litigation department of large corporate law firms in Boston and Raleigh. He then shifted to practice in an innovative, technology-forward family law firm in Raleigh. As an attorney and later as managing shareholder, Erik helped to steer the firm through years of double-digit revenue growth as well as geographic and personnel expansion from one office with four attorneys to three offices with a multi-disciplinary client services team of nearly twenty lawyers, accountants, and mental health professionals.
In 2008, Erik became the founding Director of the Center for Practice Management at the North Carolina Bar Association. He served in that capacity for nine years, during which he helped hundreds of North Carolina lawyers with law firm start up, technology, marketing and management. He organized, spoke and taught at countless CLE programs on legal technology and law firm management, and was a frequent presenter at law schools, bar associations, law firm retreats, and conferences across the US and Canada. At the NCBA, Erik served for the last five years as Senior Director of Membership Experience. In that role, he led the integration, reorganization and management of the member-facing and revenue-producing departments of the NCBA: continuing education, membership, Center for Practice Management, membership services, communities and the lawyer referral service.
Erik is excited to return to his first vocational passion: providing practice management consulting and coaching for lawyers. Erik formed Outmanage LLC in 2022 to serve institutional and individual clients and he can be reached through his website, ErikMazzone.com.
For lawyers handling real estate closings, it’s important to know that seller fraud continues to rise, especially with the upcoming holiday season when distractions are high, and fraudsters are active.
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.