Walking With Giants in Your Law Life

As the Carolina landscape turns red and gold and November arrives with a nip, I bring you news from the Fall Classic to brighten your Law Life: There is greatness all around, and giants walk among us. For proof, look no further than Major League Baseball’s champion Texas Rangers, winners of the 2023 World Series.

Just in Time for Halloween: Has the Specter of Viar Returned?

Thirty years ago, Justice Scalia famously described the Supreme Court’s Lemon test as “some ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly sits up in its grave and shuffles abroad, after being repeatedly killed and buried.” Lamb’s Chapel v. Ctr. Moriches Union Free Sch. Dist., 508 U.S. 384, 398 (1993). This Halloween, an equally scary wraith may be stalking North Carolina’s appellate jurisprudence.

*Reprinted by permission from Fox Rothschild. Written by Beth Scherer & Nathan Wilson, published on October 31, 2023

WHOLE LAWYER WELLNESS

The Magic Pill of Exercise

What if I told you that there was a pill that you can take that will immediately boost your mood, lower your blood pressure, reduce your risk of diabetes and cancer, improve your focus and memory, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, reduce inflammation in your body, delay brain aging and neurodegenerative disease, and reduce negative symptoms of stress? You should also know that this pill would, if taken correctly, have little or no side effects. Would you take it?

New Ways November 2023

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LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Law Firm Technology and the Expensive Camera Problem

I love photography. Not so much the doing of it as the admiring the finished product of beautifully composed and edited photos. Especially landscape photography. There was a time – or if I am going to be honest, there have been several times over the past 20 years because it takes a while for a lesson to make a dent in my hard head apparently – where I’ve looked at some beautiful landscape photography and thought, “I might like doing that…”

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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS

Twelve N.C. Counties to Transition to eCourts on February 5, 2024

Track 3 includes Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties. Read More

Proposed Order Submission in Odyssey Counties

This document outlines the process for submitting externally generated Proposed Orders in Odyssey Counties. Read More

State Bar Council Amends Random Audit Selection Policy

North Carolina State Bar Council voted to amend its policy governing the random selection of lawyers for trust account audits. The policy, effective in 2024, removes judicial district bars from the selection process in favor of a random selection from a list of all lawyers statewide. Read More