November 2008
Article Date: Saturday, November 01, 2008
The NCBA Young Lawyers Division Bulletin
November 2008
Dates to Know
- November 14, 2008, 9:15 AM: YLD Executive Committee Conference Call
- November 15, 2008: Wills for Heroes Clinic, Charlotte
- November 20, 2008 – YLD Domestic Issues Clinic at A Passage Home, Raleigh
- November 21, 2008, 7:30 PM: Durham County YLD Social, The Green Room, 1108 Broad Street, Durham
- January 10, 2009 – YLD Winter Quarterly Meeting, Greensboro
- February 6, 2009 – YLD Legislative Committee CLE, Raleigh
- February 12-14, 2009: ABA YLD Midyear Meeting, Boston, MA
- February 21, 2009 – YLD Statewide Ask-A-Lawyer Event with Local YLD Groups
- February 28, 2009 – YLD Spring Quarterly Meeting & Annual Planning, Cary
- March 6, 2009: Target date for 4All
- May 1, 2009 – YLD Law Week Awards Ceremony, Raleigh?
- June 25-28, 2009 – NCBA Annual Meeting, Asheville
**YLD Committee News**
Mentorship Committee
The YLD Mentorship Committee oversees the pairing of law student and young attorney mentees with attorney mentors. So far, we have been very successful in soliciting mentees but need more attorney mentors. If you are interested in serving as an attorney mentor, please fill out an application and send it in PDF format to Jacquelyn Terrell at jterrell@ncbar.org. You can find the application at http://younglawyersdivision.ncbar.org/'.http://younglawyersdivision.ncbar.org</a>.%20%20It%20is%20the%20last%20item%20under%20Hot%20Links:%202008-2009%20Mentor/Mentee%20Application.%20%20</p><p><u>Pro%20Bono/Poverty%20Issues%20Committee</u>%20</p><p>The%20YLD%20Pro%20Bono/Poverty%20Issues%20Committee%20will%20hold%20a%20legal%20clinic%20at%20the%20Raleigh%20Helping%20Hands%20Mission%20from%205%20p.m.%20to%207%20p.m.%20on%20November%2012.%20At%20this%20event,%20our%20volunteers%20will%20present%20information%20to%20under-privileged%20members%20of%20our%20community%20on%20a%20variety%20of%20topics,%20including%20family%20law,%20employment%20law,%20criminal%20law,%20and%20landlord-tenant%20law.%20%20For%20information%20on%20volunteer%20opportunities,%20please%20contact%20Catherine%20Kimberley%20at%20<a%20href=.%20%20It%20is%20the%20last%20item%20under%20Hot%20Links:%202008-2009%20Mentor/Mentee%20Application.%20%20
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Wills for Heroes
On Saturday, Oct. 25, the Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association scaled new heights in Greensboro when it conducted its fourth Wills for Heroes event. "The Greensboro event was amazing," said YLD Chair Patti Ramseur. “There were so many people: 304 first responders and their spouses were served and received over 900 wills, powers of attorney and health care powers of attorney. This is a new record.” Read more about the event here: http://www.ncbar.org/news/1/3447/index.aspx
*Area in Focus*
Seagrove-Two Great Seagrove Pottery Festivals Together
November 22-23, 2008
Enjoy a full weekend of NC pottery at both the 27th Annual Seagrove Pottery Festival and the Inaugural Celebration of Seagrove Potters starting November 22, 2008. Hours vary with each festival. For the 27th Annual festival information, call 336-873-7887. For the Inaugural Celebration, go to http://www.celebrationofseagrovepotters.com/.
*Law Practice Matters - Tips from Erik Mazzone, Practice Management Advisor and Director of the Center for Practice Management of the NCBA*
The Two Rules of Business Development
Developing a portable book of business is not your debutante ball.
I understand the allure of the grand gesture: trapping a witness with the perfect cross examination question, cashing out of stock just before the market crashes, hitting the walk-off home run in your softball game. They're rare but unbelievably satisfying when they happen. They're the stories of your achievement you bore your friends and family with for years.
They also have less than nothing to do with business development.
Business development — building your law practice with a book full of clients and referral sources who provide you a steady revenue stream — is impervious to the grand gesture. You can’t say or do the one perfect thing and suddenly have a line of clients outside your door hoping you will be their lawyer. In order to win at business development you’ve got to follow two simple rules: 1) business development is more like practice than game day, and 2) it’s not about you….
Read more here: http://lawpracticematters.com/2008/10/27/the-two-rules-of-business-development/
*Legal Article of the Week*
"GPS Evidence Might Drive Your Case Home" by Craig Ball. Ball details how the histories stored within a GPS device could provide valuable courtroom evidence.
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/in_house_tech/pubArticleIHT.jsp?id=1202425606808
*Website of Interest*
Twitter
Online social networking is connecting attorneys across the nation. Twitter has become a popular social networking site for attorneys and other legal professionals. It can best be described as "hyper-blogging." Messages are limited to 140 characters. You can follow individuals as well as different news and business organizations, such as the ABA Journal or Legal Voices, which follows twitter commentary from the legal industry. Twitter can be used as both a useful networking tool and for stress relief.
http://twitter.com/
*Blog of Interest*
The [non]Billable Hour
This blog is authored by Matthew Homann, an attorney and entrepreneur who has a unique way of approaching the practice of law. Through his blog Homann "shares innovative billing strategies, creative marketing techniques, proven customer-service principles, and cutting-edge ideas from other industries and professions with lawyers to help them tap into their own creative reserves and make dramatic improvements in their businesses and their lives."
http://thenonbillablehour.typepad.com/