The Student Relations Committee serves as the bridge between the Paralegal Division and the students enrolled in paralegal programs across the state. The committee would like to shine the spotlight on Brianna Huff, a paralegal technology certificate student at Coastal Carolina Community College. Ms. Huff is a recent graduate of UNC Charlotte with a bachelor of arts in history and communication studies with minors in journalism and Spanish.
Membership in the Paralegal Division of the North Carolina Bar Association is FREE to student members! Register here.
Ms. Huff discusses how volunteering as a paralegal student can garner real world experience and networking opportunities.
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When Thomas Robins heard about a $1.5 million cut to the budget for Legal Aid of North Carolina in 2015, he realized LANC would no longer be able to send an attorney to Randolph County to represent victims of domestic violence.
Without hesitation, Robins, a partner at Bunch, Robins & Stubblefield in Asheboro, assembled a team of attorneys — Sarah Lanier, Jennifer Bennett, Margaret Megerian and Brooke Schmidly — to not only temporarily fill this gap, but to ensure a long-term commitment to addressing the unmet legal need of domestic violence victims in Randolph County. Robins developed a weekly on-call rotation system for his team of attorneys to represent victims of domestic violence in Randolph County in domestic violence hearings.
Since spring of 2016, the group has collectively represented 114 victims of domestic violence in Randolph County.
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The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently held that, where an insurer settles with a pro se claimant and issues a settlement check to the claimant, the insurer must pay off any valid medical provider liens pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 44-49 and 44-50 before making any payment to the claimant. Nash Hosps., Inc. v. State Farm Mut. Automobile Ins. Co., 803 S.E.2d 256 (N.C. App. 2017). A check made payable jointly to the claimant and the lienholder will not suffice; in fact, it violates the lien statute and is an unfair and deceptive trade practice.
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Art MacCord is a patent attorney with 38 years of experience. He keeps an eye on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office for new rules and practice tips of interest to intellectual property attorneys. Please click on the links below for the most recent updates.
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Lawyers, you have another reason to smile this week.
It’s National Celebration of Pro Bono Week, an annual initiative spearheaded by the ABA Standing Committee on Public Service to enhance and expand efforts to increase access to justice for all. The #celebrateprobono effort gives legal communities around the country an opportunity to recognize the good legal volunteer work being done. In North Carolina, we have much to celebrate in this regard.
In January 2017, the N.C. Pro Bono Resource Center established North Carolina’s first statewide voluntary reporting process. This process allows attorneys to report information about their pro bono legal service in 2016. What we heard through that process was encouraging: Attorneys reported more than 25,000 hours of pro bono legal service provided last year. Further, 89.3 percent of respondents reported providing some legal volunteerism, and 20 percent of respondents engaged in all the types of activity included in the rule: pro bono legal service, law improvement activity, non-legal community service, and financial contributions to support civil legal aid.
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Art MacCord is a patent attorney with 38 years of experience. He keeps an eye on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office for new rules and practice tips of interest to intellectual property attorneys. Please click on the links below for the most recent updates.
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Let me give you two reasons why you need to sign up now, if you aren’t signed up already:
First, the CLE features an all-star cast of speakers from all three branches of government. These speakers include Supreme Court justices, Court of Appeals judges, and the recently retired Speaker Pro Tempore of the North Carolina House of Representatives. Simply put, there is no more qualified group of individuals than these current and former public officials to speak about the sweeping changes that our state government and local governments have experienced in the past year.
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By the time you count 8 seconds or read the first section of this article, 150 new devices have been connected to the Internet of Things. That means 61,500 per hour; 1.5 million per day. Currently 7.4 billion devices are connected to the IoT, more than humans on the planet. By 2020, estimates of connected devices range from 26 billion to 75 billion.[1]
The modern student and faculty are inextricably and innocently connected to the IoT. Their behavior will only exponentially increase the security threat to the educational institution
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The North Carolina Secretary of State’s office would like to share the following announcements:
New Secretary of State Website Design is On the Way
Look for our new www.sosnc.gov website design this fall.
We are updating the look and feel of our website to improve your experience. The new website design, created under the statewide Digital Commons initiative, features:
Improved navigation,
Modern design,
Mobile device optimization, and More!
We will provide additional information about the roll-out of the new design on our current website front page. We will also be supplying information about the roll-out in a variety of other ways over the coming months.
Our Corporations Division is now Business Registration
On Sept. 1, the Corporations Division began rebranding its name to the Business Registration Division. This improvement is in response to growing needs of the business community. Business Corporations now represent a minority of the entities we administer, given the growth of limited liability companies, nonprofit corporations, and partnerships.
The new title should minimize confusion about the name and make internet searches for information easier. This change will be spreading across all N.C. Secretary of State materials and platforms in the weeks ahead.
So please, make a note: The Business Registration Division is now your destination for your business registration needs in North Carolina. Your bookmarks do not need to change.
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