Paralegals Beware: Wire Instruction Fraud Plagues N.C. Lawyers
In recent weeks, Lawyers Mutual has received multiple reports of North Carolina attorneys who were targeted by scammers attempting to divert seller closing…
Judge Halts DOL Overtime Regulations – Now What?
I imagine that, if you are reading this blog, you have heard the big news: after 5 p.m. on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, a federal judge in Texas issued an…
N.C. Court Of Appeals On Brink Of Slippery Non-Compete Slope
In Beverage Sys., LLC v. Associated Beverage Repair, LLC, 368 N.C. 693, 784 S.E.2d 457 (2016), the North Carolina Supreme Court clarified that North Carolina…
Employer’s Attempt At Repayment Of Training Costs Can Backfire Causing Employee Misclassification Under the FLSA
A growing practice among employers is to require new hires to sign a Training Cost Agreement (TCA), which puts employees on the hook for the cost of their…
A Tale Of Two Legal Tech Conferences: Artificial Intelligence, Practice Management And More
It was the best of conferences, it was the … actually, they were both pretty good. Not exactly Dickens, is it? I recently attended two legal technology…
How Well Does Your Company Keep Secrets?
Most of us have seen the headlines over the past couple years about massive data breaches affecting millions of people. We have all likely received at least…
File Early: How Provisional Patent Applications Increase Protection
Many applicants make the mistake of waiting until they have an ideal embodiment reduced to a high degree of precision before drafting a patent application.…
Heard-Leak: Valuable Lessons for Defense Counsel
“I kept asking how I could improve, but my supervisor would never tell me what I was doing wrong, and when I was fired, it came out of the blue.” It’s a…
After Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment, Darryl Howard Was Sustained By Love, Redeemed By Justice
Darryl and Nannie Howard banter gently, laughing and smiling a bit like newlyweds, a bit like the long-married couple they are. Their ease and happiness with…
Millennial Lawyers Are Different, Except When They Are Just Like Everyone Else
Most demographic experts define the “millennial” generation as those born in or after 1981. The Young Lawyers Division of the NCBA comprises law students,…