This year, North Carolina owners, developers, and contractors will need to read up on new legislation that could fundamentally affect their businesses. On January 26, 2022, Governor Roy Cooper signed Session Law 2022-1. This legislation, most of which is effective as of March 1, significantly changes North Carolina General Statutes applicable to in-state construction projects (except for Department of Transportation design-build projects). Overall, Session Law 2022-1: (1) clarifies and updates statutory provisions related to the design-build contracting process; (2) renders void any unenforceable provisions in construction and design-professional agreements requiring lien waivers or claims as a condition for progress payments, with limited exceptions; and (3) modifies attorneys’ fees provisions applicable in statutory lien actions.
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Anabel Rosa has long held a commitment to giving back through service. “I know what it feels like to be the person who needs help,” describes Anabel. “I know what it feels like to not belong, to not have meaning, to not be able to speak with someone.” Anabel recalls a memory of sitting in the Hall of Languages at Syracuse University, where she completed her undergraduate degree, and looking at her homework, puzzled. Anabel could barely speak English when she came to the United States from Puerto Rico to attend college. She needed help, and someone helped her.
The 15th Annual 4ALL (Virtual) Statewide Service Day will be held on Friday, March 4, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The 4ALL Statewide Service Day is a pro bono program of the North Carolina Bar Foundation and held in conjunction with the North Carolina Bar Association. During 4ALL, North Carolina lawyers provide free legal answers, information, and resources to callers seeking information regarding North Carolina-related legal matters. This year’s event will be virtual, and it will provide an opportunity for paralegals to participate as call screeners.
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Around 1 in 5 children are food insecure in North Carolina, and over 1.4 million North Carolinians – from children to seniors – face food insecurity and hunger in our state. The NCBA YLD’s Legal Feeding Frenzy is an opportunity for our legal community to come together to fight hunger across North Carolina and in your local communities. Running for the month of March, the Legal Feeding Frenzy is a food and funds drive competition to see who can raise the most food per employee to benefit local Feeding the Carolinas food banks. By donating to the food banks within our state, your dollars go further. Every dollar helps provide five meals.
Law firms, solo practitioners, law schools, and corporate counsel are all encouraged to participate! Teams must pre-register here. Get your team together, and register today!
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The North Carolina Bar Association Elder & Special Needs Law Section (NCBA-EL) recognizes that, although the public perceives lawyers to be among the most affluent members of society, in fact, many attorneys struggle to make ends meet, need to pay off large amounts of law school debt, or sometimes suffer from economic hardship due to the poor job market, disabilities or other factors. The NCBA-EL wants membership in, and services from, the NCBA-EL to be available to attorneys regardless of their ability to pay. We understand that one of the greatest services available for members is the high quality continuing legal education sponsored by the NCBA Foundation. As a result, the NCBA-EL has established a Scholarship program for CLE program tuition for the 26th Annual Elder & Special Needs Law Symposium, being held in-person live and via live webcast on Thursday, February 24, 2022, and Friday, February 25, 2022. For more information, visit this link: https://cle.ncbar.org/courses/39194/sections/45331/webinars/27632
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The North Carolina Bar Association’s Minorities in the Profession Committee (MIP) presented the annual ¡Adelante! | Moving Forward event on Saturday, January 29, 2022, via Zoom.
Preetha Suresh Rini (Robinson Bradshaw) and Giovonni Wade (UNC Law) co-chaired the event and participated in the program.
The event was presented to inform law students from diverse backgrounds about the skills necessary to succeed in law school, to transition from law school into the workforce, and to effectively network with professionals in the legal community and beyond.
In last fall’s television sensation Squid Game, unwilling participants in a gruesome game show compete in a series of deceptively simple challenges where one wrong move can have lethal consequences. The penultimate challenge is to cross a bridge made up of pairs of glass panes. In each pair, one pane is tempered glass, which will hold a person’s weight and allow him to proceed to the next pair. The other is normal glass, which will shatter under his weight, sending him plummeting to his doom in the chasm below. The panes look identical to the untrained eye, but the contestants must correctly decide where to jump if they hope to survive the game. For defendants, the 2005 Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) hides a similar series of high-stakes decisions between nearly identical choices.
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This month’s Paralegal Spotlight is on Ileigh Kuga.
Before I started my career as a paralegal, my intentions were to go to law school. I planned my undergraduate career with that intention in mind; however, my undergraduate advisor threw me a curveball. He suggested that I go and work for an attorney before committing to three years of law school, just to see if I would like the field (and to see if I was willing to accumulate all the debt associated with law school). At first, I was pretty taken aback that my advisor was telling me not to pursue my career aspirations, but I gave it a shot. Now that I am a North Carolina Bar Certified Paralegal, I am glad I listened! I love my work, and I feel so accomplished with all I have done thus far.
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