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41211
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An attorney’s advice on how to keep overhead aka business expenses at a minimum. Expenses covered fall in three umbrella categories: rent, labor, and marketing.
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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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41214
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There are a multitude of factors to consider with business operations. To simply the process, the executive director of the State Bar Lawyers’ Management Assistance Process (LMAP) offered advice in categories, with each one having a dozen subcategories. Broad categories are office administration, malpractice and grievance, personal well-being, and attitude.
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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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41216
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How to effectively respond to a request for legal services entails considering the reasons for responding (the author lists four) and steps related to effectively responding to the legal services proposal (the author includes the dos, don’ts, and creative pricing strategies).
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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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41218
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As part of answering the question of what role the lawyer in question plays in a client’s defense, another word is being considered: necessary. This word, designed to eliminate the ambiguity of the former rule, was intended to, among other things, prevent the opposing counsel from disqualifying the lawyer. Has ambiguity been eliminated? As this ethics counsel for the North Carolina State Bar proposed, the murkiness of interpretation’s waters has only grown more so.
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42537
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Making the revised, and now uniform, Power of Attorney Act more understandable for laypersons of the law is Creekman’s overview. His description of the new PoA’s organization and purpose leads to an explanation this law’s sixteen most important aspects, particularly as they apply to real estate matters and his optimistic perception of the law’s long-term impact.
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42538
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Lechner underscores the impact and importance of the Civil Justice Act. Asserting its importance was its purpose: helping to provide legal services for the most vulnerable members the state’s population through funding the Legal Aid of North Carolina, Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, and Pisgah Legal Services. Asserting its importance was noting how people who are elderly, impoverished, domestic violence victims, or disabled and veterans who are homeless could be impacted, should funding be cut.
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42539
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Persuading couples pondering these options to think carefully is the author’s analysis of what to consider when deliberating either possibility. Issues Mason discussed emphasized how moving in together, whether as significant others or spouses, could impact the couple and their loved ones, particularly in the long term. The issues: power of attorney and health care advance directives; social security benefits; long term care (nursing) and Medicaid planning; income and transfer taxes; the family home; elective share and year’s allowance statutes; intestacy.
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42540
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The author describes the crisis level proportions the opioid crisis in North Carolina that impacts the addicted, their loved ones, and the medical community. Through it, Judge Corpening balances the acknowledgement of this crisis’ severity by asserting hope of recovery, courtesy of opioid crisis centers, coalitions, and classes. Those profiled include Community Partners Coalition for New Hanover County and the Intensive Reunification Program.
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42541
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Capua’s discussion of Medically Assisted Treatment, as it applies to opioid dependence, includes treatment measures and the counseling and court system’s biased treatment of MAT patients. For readers seeking more information about opioid addiction and Medically Assisted Treatment, Capua concludes her discussion with a list of resources and services, with information about them available in print and online.
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Opioid dependency and court system--North Carolina ; Opioid dependency and counseling centers ; Drug courts--Medication Assisted Treatment guidelines ; Medication Assisted Treatment--rights of individuals ; Attorneys--legal counsel--Medication Assisted Treatment patients; Medication Assisted Treatment--types--methadone maintenance
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42542
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A companion article to Christa Capua’s “Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence in the Criminal Justice System,” Moraites’ article focuses on the instances when Medication Assisted Treatment is not the best solution for those seeking recovery. Included in Moraites’ counter argument is an examination of the true efficacy of this type of treatment and in what situations is Medication Assisted Treatment the best treatment solution.
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Medication Assisted Treatment--long term efficacy; Medication Assisted Treatment and opioid dependency; Abstinence based solutions--Medication Assisted Treatment; Opioids--history--United States ; Opioids--history--United States--medical profession; Addiction and recovery--perception--medical community
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42543
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King’s analysis of Unauthorized Practice of Law, or UPL, includes the definition of UPL and the legal consequences for attorneys and paralegals engaging in the activity, and why legal counsel should deter the practice that commonly occurs on social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Unauthorized Practice of Law--attorneys ; Unauthorized Practice of Law--paralegals; Unauthorized Practice of Law--definition; Unauthorized Practice of Law--social media networks; Unauthorized Practice of Law--social media networks--Facebook; Unauthorized Practice of Law--social media networks--Twitter