Board of Directors

Sarah Sparboe Thornburg

Sarah Sparboe Thornburg

Lawyers Mutual welcomed Sarah Sparboe Thornburg to the board in 2014. She practices estate planning and estate and trust administration with McGuire, Wood & Bissette, P.A., in Asheville.  A graduate of Duke University and Wake Forest University School of Law, Sarah was previously a public high school teacher and served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Thomas A. Higgins with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Sarah is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina and is the Moderator of the Presbytery of Western North Carolina. She also serves on the Boards of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County, and of Working Wheels WNC. Sarah volunteers regularly with Pisgah Legal Services' "Mountain Area Volunteer Lawyer" program, and is an active volunteer in the Asheville City School system.

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The Corporate Transparency Act: What North Carolina Law Firms Need to Know

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.  

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eCourts Expansion Announced for 2024

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.   

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