New ERISA Disability Claims Regulations Take Effect: Part I
and Caitlin H. Walton This is the first installment of our three-part series on ERISA’s new disability claim-processing procedures. Here we will focus on…
Forming an LLC: Walking Your Client Through the Paperwork, Part 2
This is the second in a two-part series. Read part one here. Now that you have submitted the client’s Articles of Organization to the North Carolina…
Raising the Age Raises Questions. This CLE Has Answers.
Over the next two years, North Carolina’s juvenile justice system will undergo some of the most significant changes in its history. Chief among these…
NC Free Legal Answers: Pro Bono At Your Fingertips
I was hopeless and out of answers when I typed “PLEASE HELP! 🙁 🙁 🙁 ” in the subject line of my post and hit send. Out it went into the ether of a…
Happy 20th Anniversary To the Paralegal Division!
It seems like yesterday that we were celebrating our 15th Anniversary at the Grandover in Greensboro and at The Grove Park Inn in Asheville. I’m excited to…
No Internal Complaints Under Dodd-Frank? Not So Fast.
In Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, 138 S.Ct. 767 (2018), a unanimous Supreme Court recently held that in order to be a whistleblower entitled to the…
Items of Interest: Awaiting SCOTUS On NJ Sports Betting, Miley Cyrus, ‘Stranger Things’
Members of the Sports & Entertainment Law Section found the following recent third-party articles to be of potential interest to the Section. Making…
2018 Health Law Section Annual Meeting and Joint CLE With the Litigation Section
Have you heard of the opioid epidemic, but don’t know much about it? Or, perhaps you’ve heard of it and have been wondering what North Carolina is doing…
Federal Income Tax Update, Part II
I. No Tax Basis Increase for Loan Guaranties Even After the S Corporation Loan Is Called in Full. An S corporation shareholder may deduct his/her pro rata…
Road Trip! Road Trip!
In recognition of the Supreme Court of North Carolina’s 200th birthday, Chief Justice Martin recently announced that the Court is going to put on a road…