Practice Points with Mark Scruggs: Alias or Pluries Summons – A Mistake Waiting to Happen
Preventing Alias or Pluries summonses mistakes. Read More +
Practice Points with Mark Scruggs: The Intake Interview - One Path to a Satisfied Client (And Lawyer)
A solid intake interview will go a long way to making sure the cases you choose to work on are fulfilling for you and your clients. Read More +
Cybersecurity Tips: Starting Fresh in the New Year
File removal, a cybersecurity resolution for 2021. Read More +
Practice Points with Mark Scruggs: The Trustee’s Duty of Neutrality
Do you ever serve as trustee of a client’s trust? Read More +
Giving Thanks for an Astonishing Law Life
Being thankful and looking back on a law career. Read More +
Cybersecurity Tips: Being Thankful for a Plan
Tips for creating a plan for cybersecurity. Read More +
Cybersecurity Tips: Tales from the Crypt(ography)
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The Lawyer Who Was Totally Unfiltered
There was once a lawyer who had a habit of starting sentences with, “I hope this doesn’t offend you, but ….” Read More +
Practice points with Mark Scruggs: Get It Outta There!
Don’t let affirmative defenses that you deem meritless remain in the Answer and a part of the case. Read More +
Cybersecurity Tips: Setting You Up For Success
As we enter October, consider a goal of taking a little time each week to think about cybersecurity. Read More +
Practice Points with Mark Scruggs: Suing the Wrong Defendant
One of the most common errors we see at Lawyers Mutual is the failure to sue the right defendant before the statute of limitations expires. Read More +
Law Lessons from Baseball in a Pandemic
There’s an important Law Lesson to be learned when baseball is played in empty parks, in front of cardboard cutout fans, by players who are not allowed to spit. Read More +
Practice Points with Mark Scruggs: Conflicts and Confidentiality – the Bane of an Estates Lawyer
Practice Points with Mark Scruggs - Conflicts and Confidentiality Read More +
Cybersecurity Tips: Culture of Security
Cybersecurity Tips Read More +
Section 230: How a 24-Year-Old Media Law Safeguards Your Client’s Website
Revisiting Section 230 Read More +
How Prospective Client Consultations Could Impact You — ABA Formal Opinion 492 Explained
Formal Opinion 492 - Read More +
30 Minute Risk Management Check Up
As we head into summer, why not take a moment to assess your law firm’s policies, procedures and best practices to ensure your law firm operations are on solid footing. Read More +
Practice Points with Mark Scruggs - Before Agreeing to Serve as Local Counsel – Stop and Think!
When you get that call from an out-of-state attorney asking you to serve as local counsel, consider the risks. You might think that being local counsel is a ministerial act or duty; something necessary for the out-of-state lawyer to obtain admission pro hac vice to represent his or her client in a North Carolina court. Read More +
Managing a Solo or Small Firm During a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way we do business. If your practice was already prepared for remote work, or if you had to figure it out on the fly, here are some tips for making sure you are practicing safely in this strange, new world. Read More +
Cybersecurity Made Easier
Resources to help small firms with cybersecurity issues. Read More +
