Salim Uqdah is a dedicated volunteer who is focused on educating and providing his dispute resolution skills to the people of North Carolina. Salim is a North Carolina Certified paralegal, Arkfeld E-Discovery Specialist, and NCDRC Certified Mediator with an immense talent for bringing people to the table. Salim left the Mecklenburg Courthouse in June 2018 to find innovative ways to help people during the most difficult times in their lives. In 2018, Salim opened the doors of Uroboros Mediations, a dispute resolution company specializing in mediation, arbitration, and divorce coaching. He has served as a collaborative neutral facilitator, divorce coach, and a securities arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
In January 2022, the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center will launch a voluntary Paralegal Pro Bono Reporting process for the first time. While there is no requirement for paralegals to offer pro bono services in North Carolina, there is an ethical responsibility for attorneys to do so under North Carolina Rule of Professional Conduct 6.1, and Guideline 10 of the ABA Model Guidelines for Utilization of Paralegal Services states that “[a] lawyer who employs a paralegal should facilitate the paralegal’s participation in appropriate continuing education and pro bono publico activities.” Rule 6.1 encourages North Carolina attorneys to provide at least fifty (50) hours of legal services per year at no cost to individuals of limited means and/or charitable or other organizations that serve individuals of limited means. These lawyers who provide at least fifty (50) hours of these types of volunteer services in a year are recognized through the North Carolina Attorney Pro Bono Honor Society. For the first time, paralegals who meet these requirements will have a similar venue for recognition – the North Carolina Paralegal Pro Bono Honor Society.
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Cybercriminals exploited remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) saw a record 70% increase in the number of reported internet scams and losses exceeding $4.2 billion, due in part to the pandemic driving more commercial activities online and increasing remote work. According to the FBI, one of the most popular methods to steal money from businesses and individuals during the pandemic involved phishing scams and email account compromises.[1]
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We are still waiting with bated breath to find out what elder law and estate planning-related provisions will come from Congress’s budget reconciliation process. In the meantime, many of you will be aware of North Carolina’s No Patient Left Alone Act (NC Session Law 2021-171; SB 191), but others may have heard nothing about it. Many likely have also not seen the revised memorandum on nursing home visitation issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) on November 12. Both the Act and the CMS Memorandum are an attempt to restore visitation rights to vulnerable populations receiving health care; the details of both are discussed below.
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Many of us have heard discussions of a “new normal” when it comes to the practice of law – a movement toward a hybrid approach to work that gives lawyers the flexibility to work from the office, from home, or from another non-office location. One thing is clear: times have changed, and for many of us, remote practice (at least part-time) is here to stay. But when remote work is a choice, instead of a necessity while offices remained closed due to COVID-19, what are the implications for our ethical compliance?
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It is a privilege to serve as your Section Chair for 2021-2022, particularly with our team of officers this year: Vice-Chair Jim Cooley, Secretary Jim Oden, and Treasurer Denise Cline. Many thanks go to Kate Deiter-Maradei, our Section Chair last year, who worked very hard for all of us. I also want to thank all those who are generously sharing their time and talents with us by serving on our section’s Council, chairing a committee, working on our Nominations Committee, or serving as a section liaison this year.
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It is my honor to serve as Chair of the NCBA Real Property Section for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Also serving on the Executive Committee are Vice-Chair Lindsay Parris Thompson of The Van Winkle Law Firm in Asheville, Secretary-Treasurer Matt Waters of Jordan Price in Raleigh and Immediate Past Chair Brian Byrd of Fox Rothschild in Greensboro.
The Real Property Section Council has been working diligently on behalf of the section. Below is a summary of those efforts, as reported in our last Council meeting on November 9, 2021.
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MIP’s Diverse Perspectives is a monthly blog feature to spotlight a member from North Carolina’s community of diverse attorneys and legal professionals. Members have the opportunity to share a personal perspective through a brief set of interview questions.
This month’s perspective is courtesy of Alison Ashe-Card, Associate Director, Diversity & Inclusion, Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC.
It is hard to believe we are almost halfway through the 2021-2022 bar year. COVID-19 surges and related precautionary measures prevented us from engaging with our members in person during the first half of this bar year, but we are optimistic that the signs point to a rounding of the corner. As you may have heard, beginning November 1, 2021, the NCBA went back to hosting some in-person gatherings.
The YLD will take advantage of the opportunity to hold its first in-person council meeting in over 20 months on December 10, 2021 (there is a virtual participation option available). I’m thrilled at the prospect of getting back together with our great leadership team. I know many of our committee chairs are already starting to plan ways to bring in-person programming safely back to our members.
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