J. Patrick Williams is a founding partner at Batch, Poore & Williams, PC in Raleigh, NC a family law firm. Patrick is also the owner/founder of Prorolo.com, a North Carolina based directory and resource database of and for attorneys and law related service providers.
When I started my law firm I was a solo practitioner fresh out of law school with no idea how to build a law practice. One morning a sales representative came by my office selling yellow page ads, literally ads in a physical phone book. The advertising costs ranged from $20 a month to $5,0… Read More
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Lawyers Mutual has published previous alerts regarding the new filing requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) that went into effect January 1, 2024. After reviewing additional resources, we want to emphasize concerns that we have about the risks and increased potential liability for lawyers undertaking the reporting requirements. This is especially true for the continuing reporting requirements after entity formation and initial reporting.
The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC) recently announced additional go-live plans for counties transitioning from paper files to Enterprise Justice (Odyssey), which currently serves Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Mecklenburg and Wake counties. Twelve northeastern counties comprising Track 3, as previously announced, will go live on February 5, and 10 counties comprising Track 4 (Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person, Vance and Warren) will go live on April 29.