North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

For a month now, I’ve been working at North Carolina and South Carolina Lawyers Weekly. I think it’s time for a proper introduction. I’m a neighbor one state to the north. For the past 27 years, I’ve served as publisher ...

Before he was a governor or a U.S. Senator, before he was the Democratic nominee for vice president, Tim Kaine was a lawyer practicing in Richmond, Virginia. He has seen and done a lot since en­tering the Senate; he has ...

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A woman spent near­ly 10 years posing as a lawyer in a rural Pennsylvania county, handling estates work, despite the fact she never went to law school. She was a partner at a law firm, making a $100,000 buy-in about ...

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Michael Hammond and Mark Powers A successful rainmaker must get out of the comfort zone. Lawyers who embrace new routines and adopt five key marketing habits will see a significant yield from their efforts. Practice these habits until they become ...

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Keep your clients happy, and you will have a successful business. This seems like a ridiculously basic thing to even have to put into print, but when you read newspaper stories about the airlines and how they treat their customers, ...

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Here’s a typical scenario: A spouse who owns a business walks into a family law attorney’s office looking for legal assistance for a divorce. The atmosphere is charged with emotion – mostly anger – and the discussion inevitably works its ...

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Shawn Healy Dolan Media Newswires Shakespeare’s King Henry aptly said, “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” Despite the perceived glamour of power, the stress that it accompanies can disrupt the entire enterprise if it is not well managed. ...

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Dan Heilman Dolan Media Newswires When the news broke after Prince’s April 21 death that the music superstar apparently didn’t leave a will, prospective heirs to his fortune started coming out of the woodwork. And when that happened, news outlets ...

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Debra A. Squires-Lee and Thomas W. Kirchofer Dolan Media Newswires With summer approaching and the July bar exam looming, law firms are beginning to think about next year’s incoming class of associates. There will be training and mentoring and plenty ...

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Making clients happy isn’t rocket science. Heck, we learned that one in kindergarten: Be kind to others, be unselfish, be helpful, be respectful. In our great profession, that translates into: *Showing compassion to all clients, big and small. *Charging fair, ...

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