Internship Experience: Learning From the Ground Up
Living in the state of North Carolina — home of the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains, a coastline over 300 miles long and approximately 50,000 farms in…
EEOC Wants In On NLRB’s Fun: EEOC Focuses On Waivers, Releases and Arbitration Agreements
For the past couple of years, the nonunion employment bar has watched as the National Labor Relations Board upended the law surrounding handbooks, waivers,…
A Practice Management Expert’s Top Gift Ideas for Techies
Tech gurus know that nothing pleases a fellow techie like a new gadget for the holidays. Here are my top five picks for the techies you love. Although, you…
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.…