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41212
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The authors offer factors that should be taken into account when deciding on the most feasible fee arrangement for themselves and their clients. Broad categories for billing included task based, hourly, results based, and relationship based.
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41213
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According to the author, hiring a new business manager is never an easy task. To make the task easier to execute, Sheaffer offered areas to consider when making this challenging and crucial decision. To make the decision process easier, Sheaffer recommended taking the following areas into account: roles, requirements, recruiting.
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41215
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Saving for retirement is never an easy task to achieve, Attorney Cottenman acknowledged. Feasibility is possible by planning years before retirement. Involved with planning for retirement are gathering related financial records, considering the amount to save, getting the most value from the money saved, and a strategy for reducing debt and accumulating assets during one’s fiscal sunset years.
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41217
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To serve and protect the interests of NC’s people entails serving a variety of purposes, some of which are regulatory and others professional. As the author, Executive Director of the North Carolina State Bar, attested, a variety of purposes can result in challenges such as conflicts of interests between public interest and professional concerns.
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41201
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Interview with PA attorney Erwin Spainhour addresses many law related topics: the perception of lawyers and the legal profession; the origins of the negative perceptions; ways to make legal assistance more affordable; effective ways to train trial lawyers; Spainhour’s opinion of the effectiveness of the disciplinary program of the state bar and the Grievance Committee; and goals he plans to accomplish during his tenure as President of the State Bar.
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1227
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Studies have identified several significant problem areas that solo and small firm practitioners face.
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24446
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North Carolina’s first woman lawyer, Tabitha Ann Holton (1854-1886) , struggled to be admitted to the state bar exams. This article recounts her life and perseverance in becoming a lawyer.
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24401
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This article discusses how business lawyers win cases and are successful. The lawyers presented in this article focus mostly on tax law and issues with the Internal Revenue Service.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 7 Issue 7, July 1987,
p16-24, il
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20439
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Today passing a Bar Examination is a stressful endeavor, though in the state's history this was not always the case. The author tracks changing requirements for not only the bar exams but the credentials needed to become a lawyer. Specifically, she looks at the years 1820 to 1860 when the system became more formalized; though qualifications such as \"moral character\" were considered the most pressing prerequisite.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 29 Issue 2, April 1952,
p159-170, f
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20587
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Lawrence reminisces about lawyers whom he has known during his career. Three men, he recounts, \"it was my high privilege to have acquaintance and some measure of association:\" Henry Groves Conner, Charles Manly Stedman, and Clement Manly. In this article he remembers Clement Manly.
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Henderson started the first law school in North Carolina. During his day and time he was one of the outstanding leaders in the legal profession in the state. In 1818 the Supreme Court of North Carolina was established, and three justices were appointed. Henderson was an associate justice, and later, on the death of the chief justice, he assumed that position.
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Richard Pearson was a jurist and noted law teacher. Lawrence writes that \"he has often been termed the father of the North Carolina bar. His famous law school at Richmond Hill turned out more than a thousand young lawyers.\" He is best remembered for his NC Supreme Court opinions when he served as Chief Justice.
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18268
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Charles Tillett was born in Richmond County and was a graduate of the University of North Carolina. He was one of the ablest lawyers of modern times and won many a hard-fought battle in the courts. One was a case brought by a Fundamentalist group to prevent the North Carolina public schools from teaching the theory of evolution. By winning, he spared the state from the problems that befell other states on this issue.
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18446
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Moore was a native of Halifax County, a lawyer, and a member of the General Assembly. Lawrence writes that \"he was the recognized leader of the North Carolina bar for an entire generation and was prominent in many matters pertaining to the welfare of the state as a whole.\"
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Lawrence was a page in the state Senate at age seven where he first became acquainted with lawyers and their cadenced speeches. The first one he remembered hearing was Thomas Dixon, who was then a lawyer. Lawrence admits that his list of lawyers is a sketchy one but that all who are there have a rightful place.
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