North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By GARY S. WILLIAMS, Dolan Media Newswires [email protected]   One of the biggest lessons of the recent economy is that many people who thought they were financially ready for retirement … weren’t. The amount of money, investments and government support ...

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He was just another young lawyer in a small firm in a small, tough, mountain town. At least, that's the way it started. In time, however, he became a lawyer of great distinction nationally. Over the broad reach of his distinguished career, he was revered by even his most ardent opponents as a lawyer's lawyer.

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By WILLIAM W. TOOLE and EMILY S. SHERLOCK, Special to Lawyers Weekly [email protected] and [email protected]   North Carolina’s dramatic population growth in the past 30 years – driven by people attracted to the state’s mild climate, strong economy and natural beauty ...

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What is the Fourth Commandment? Don't reach for your Bible. It is "Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy." What day is the Sabbath? It isn't Sunday. It is the seventh day - Saturday - the day the Lord rested in the creation story. Sunday replaced Saturday as the official Christian day of rest and worship in the first century A.D., at the behest of Saint Ignatius. So even the Ten Commandments can change a little over time.

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By MICHELLE LORE, Dolan Media Newswires [email protected]   When Minnesota personal injury attorney Peter Riley heard that a severely intoxicated driver who rear-ended another vehicle had prevailed at trial, all Riley could do was let out a long whistle. “He ...

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For law firms to be successful they must be more than a collection of single practitioners. Success in the law, like success at sports, is a team effort - if the team isn't firing on all cylinders, it gets away from what made it successful and people no longer play their true roles. No law firm can be profitable and growing without a range of skills and abilities. Not every player on a sports team is expected to be a star, and not every lawyer in a law firm should be expected to play similar roles in the life of the firm.

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Construction accidents frequently give rise to third-party tort claims. Given the number of entities involved on major construction projects, the chances of identifying a culpable party that is not protected by the exclusive remedy provisions of the workers' compensation act are rather good.

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In a recent conversation with two lawyer friends, we each commiserated that, despite the differences in each of our practices, clients often use us as a sounding board to vent their frustrations. (A not so cheap sounding board, I might add.) Recounting the meeting that had made him late to our gathering, one friend explained that he had come from an engagement that ran long due to a client just wanting to have his problem heard by someone who wasn't related to him and hadn't heard his gripe several times before.

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Many lawyers and law firm marketers have sounded alarms that the American Bar Association's Commission on Ethics 20/20 is examining legal ethics issues arising from lawyers' use of Internet-based client development tools. Those tools encompass a wide range of now common marketing tactics: online social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter), blogging, discussion forums (listservs) and websites.

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By DEBRA P. HOLLAND, Assistant Director N.C. State Bar Board of Continuing Legal Education [email protected]   Not only does the end of January bring winter weather, but it also deposits the North Carolina State Bar CLE Annual Report Forms in ...

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