Pro Bono Options To Fit Your Needs
Over the past several months, the Pro Bono Committee of the Government and Public Sector Section has been working with the NCBA Pro Bono Committee to…
NLRB General Counsel Says Uber Drivers Aren’t ‘Employees’ For Labor Law Purposes
Last week, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board publicly released an Advice Memorandum saying that Uber drivers are not “employees”…
Tricky Rules For Amending Tax Returns
Amending returns can cause clients and practitioners needless anxiety if they do not fully understand the applicable rules. This short article describes…
Laura Mahr On Creating Mini-Moments Of Wellbeing
This year’s NCBA Annual Meeting theme is wellness and how legal professionals can achieve it. In preparation for the event, we talked with speakers…
May 15, 2019
Chuck Kitchen, former chair of the NCBA Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities Section and NCBA member Karlene Turrentine have formed a new law firm,…
It’s Not Easy Being ‘Green’ . . . Or Is It? (Part 2)
This article is the second in a pair of articles related to “green policies” and how to implement them. The first part of this series was previously…
Collaborative Training In Asheville June 19-20
The NCBA has offered six basic training courses in Collaborative Law Practice in the past, and is offering the next one June 19-20 in Asheville. Click here…
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Title VII Prohibits Discrimination Against LGBT Employees
On April 22, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in three cases involving the issue of whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act…
Going Paperless: How Long Should I Keep Client Files?
I would be lying if I said that going paperless was easy. Making the journey to a mostly digital office has been troubling in so many ways that one article…
How Not to Terminate an Employee
I don’t know if Waste Connections, Inc. (WCI) discriminated against Jimmy Haynes when it terminated him in October 2015, but I do know that it did just…