North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
Today’s corporate counsel must be much more than a good lawyer. More and more, that role calls for skills in project management and administration as well as the key element of protecting the organization from risk. That’s part of the ...
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Marijuana use and federal immigration consequences: USCIS policy update 
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued policy guidance in its Policy Manual, which states that violating a federal controlled substance law, including marijuana use, remains a conditional bar to establishing good moral character for naturalization purposes, regardless ...
Read More »Qualifying for the home office deduction
With more and more people working remotely, a common question that clients asked this past tax season was whether they are eligible to take the home office deduction. This is also referred to as business use of home. The qualifying ...
Read More »The essentials of witness training
Witness preparation and training is critically important. After all, evidence comes through witnesses. Bad witnesses, if they are prominent, can tank a case. Knowing where you stand with your witnesses and how they can help or hurt a story cannot ...
Read More »Money Management: Beneficiary review
By Sharon L. Thornton BridgeTower Media Newswires The most important gift that you can leave your heirs is a well-thought-out transition of property. Circumstances change in life. It could be divorce, death, deciding to no longer enable grown children to ...
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Read More »What businesses can do to encourage complaints
BridgeTower Media Newswires The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 7,609 sexual harassment charges in 2018, which represents a 13.6 percent increase from 2017. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, this is perhaps unsurprising. As a default position, many ...
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Read More »Survey shows law firm financials solid in 2018
By Thomas Franz BridgeTower Media Newswires An annual survey of law firms with 50 or more lawyers shows that more firms improved their financial performance last year and are looking to the future with more optimism than previous editions of ...
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Read More »It’s never too early to have a wind-down plan
By Lloyd C. Rosenberg I survived. After practicing law just shy of 40 years, I decided it was time to say goodbye. Adios. Hasta la vista, baby. And that’s exactly what I did. I walked out of my office as ...
Tagged with: Retirement
Read More »Four limitations of Google Analytics
By Karl Heberger BridgeTower Media Newswires Google Analytics is a free service that allows marketers and website owners to track users’ behavior on their websites. It can tell the story that is so critical to understanding how to improve the ...
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Read More »Finding the cultural cornerstone of your firm
By Susan Letterman White BridgeTower Media Newswires Navel-gazing, dreaming, the soft stuff and a waste of time. These and more have been used to describe retreats where the discussion concerns a firm’s mission, values, principles or norms. Discussing values, principles ...
Tagged with: mission statement
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