The North Carolina Bar Foundation’s Patent Pro Bono Program, formerly part of NC LEAP (Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Program), provides pro bono counseling for low-wealth clients seeking patent assistance. The program is in partnership with Georgia Lawyers for the Arts and has helped many low-wealth North Carolina inventors to file patents for their inventions.
Right now, the Patent Pro Bono Program is in need of volunteers for patent referrals in their queue. We currently have four client cases available for your consideration. Are you able to help?
One inventor is seeking assistance with a fantasy football platform that is adaptable to the market and allows for off-season play in addition to new and exciting features.
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The YLD and Corporate Counsel Section Knowledge Resource Committee is hosting a panel of top legal professionals who will speak on the exciting intersection of technology, innovation, and the law.
In-house counsel and their clients are presented with new technologies and innovations on a near daily basis. The panelists will discuss the growing legal technology fields such as legal operations, legal tech applications in areas such as contract automation and artificial intelligence, and transactional practice areas such as intellectual property licensing, software-as-a-service agreements, privacy, and media.
During this event, the panelists will address the impact of new technologies and innovations, including any privacy and cybersecurity concerns, and how attorneys might anticipate and evaluate the impact of new technologies and innovation.
Tax Court Again Rules Emotional Distress is Not Physical Illness.
In Tressler v. Commissioner, T.C. Summ. Op. 2021-33, the Tax Court held emotional distress damages are not excluded from income unless those emotional damages are attributable to a direct physical injury. Ms. Tressler brought a lawsuit against her former employer for failing to prevent a physical assault by another employee. Ms. Tressler alleged the assault caused her emotional distress, which caused even more physical injuries. The court held the emotional distress damages were not excludable from income under Section 104(a)(2) because the settlement agreement failed to state the payments Ms. Tressler received were related to physical injuries rather than her claims for emotional distress.
We are looking forward to the upcoming NCBA conference at the Grandover next week, the first to be held in person for the past two years! On behalf of the Pro Bono Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Section, we wanted to make you aware of an exciting Pro Bono opportunity for our section members at the 2022 conference. Our section is partnering once again with the North Carolina Bar Foundation (NCBF) and NC Free Legal Answers Pro Bono Program, which allows Bar Association members to provide answers to civil legal questions from financially eligible citizens through a website – not by phone. Attorneys may choose from 25 available legal categories and anonymously respond to a question that fits their legal interests.
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The Antitrust & Complex Business Disputes Law Section invites you to register for its annual program on February 3, 2022. The program promises a full agenda and plenty of CLE credit through timely presentations designed for the active and aspiring business litigator. We will also have the very popular View From the Bench featuring the current North Carolina Business Court Judges. You may attend virtually or in person. For additional information and details, register here.
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The job search can be incredibly stressful, and it is easy to let this stress consume much of one’s mental capacity. One thing that I have learned in law school is that career fairs are a beautiful thing. Plenty of networking and job opportunities are all in one location. Moreover, career fairs are great spaces to practice many different skills from networking to interviewing and cover letter writing!
If you have the slightest interest in a career in public interest, I highly recommend checking out Equal Justice Works. Every year Equal Justice Works hosts a career fair where more than two hundred public interest employers come together and recruit. Before COVID-19, the career fair was in person. I did not have the luxury of attending the career fair in person, so I cannot speak to that specific experience. However, I have done Equal Justice Works two years in a row now and have thoroughly enjoyed the online experience. Even if you do not secure an internship or postgraduate job, the interview process with Equal Justice Works is great practice. Interviews are 20 minutes long and jumping from one Zoom call to the next with different employers tests many different skill sets. I highly recommend checking out the list of employers which is published every year prior to the event. There are employers who practice various kinds of law, and you can apply for any experience that interests you. There is no limit on the number of employers that you can apply to, so do not be afraid to put yourself out there.
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The legal profession has an antiquated pedagogical style of existence, from court proceedings to the Socratic teaching method. Many lawyers can be conservative and are opposed to taking risks. Therefore, one may speculate this could be the reason why the law is lethargic with advancing particular initiatives. Many feel that creativity should be left outside the law; however, that perspective is erroneous. As society changes, demand for change also increases to meet current needs. As law school has taught many of us, learning the law is not enough; the beauty is applying the law as it comports with the facts of a case. “Making the law dance with the facts” is advocacy, a creative skill set. Creativity and advocacy are inextricably intertwined within the law and should be embraced by the legal profession.
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The legal profession has an antiquated pedagogical style of existence, from court proceedings to the Socratic teaching method. Many lawyers can be conservative and are opposed to taking risks. Therefore, one may speculate this could be the reason why the law is lethargic with advancing particular initiatives. Many feel that creativity should be left outside the law; however, that perspective is erroneous. As society changes, demand for change also increases to meet current needs. As law school has taught many of us, learning the law is not enough; the beauty is applying the law as it comports with the facts of a case. “Making the law dance with the facts” is advocacy, a creative skill set. Creativity and advocacy are inextricably intertwined within the law and should be embraced by the legal profession.
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Attention all Family Law Specialists and Family Law Practitioners with 8+ years of practice! Your deadline to register for the 2022 Family Law Intensive Program is fast approaching – register today to secure your spot for the program.
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