North
Carolina Personal Injury Lawyers
It doesn't take a specialist to see that North Carolina personal
injury lawyers take on cases from Charlotte to Greensboro and
from Winston-Salem to Wilmington and many other cities like Durham,
Raleigh and Fayetteville plus others around the state. Many North
Carolina personal injury lawyers avail themselves of special organizations
for education, networking and camaraderie.
North Carolina statutes limit the practice of law to active members
of The North Carolina State Bar and to professional corporations
properly registered and qualified as law firms. N.C. Gen. Stat.
§§ 84-4 and 84-5. The Authorized Practice Committee
is a standing committee of the State Bar charged with investigating
and acting upon allegations of unauthorized practice of law. The
Rules of The North Carolina State Bar state, “[t]he purpose
of the committee on the authorized practice of law is to protect
the public from being unlawfully advised and represented in legal
matters by unqualified persons.” 27 N.C. Admin. Code 1D §
.0201.
Allegations of unauthorized practice of law are sent to staff
counsel for the Authorized Practice Committee. Staff counsel for
the Committee is a designated attorney within the State Bar's
Office of Counsel. Staff counsel reviews the allegation. If the
allegation raises unauthorized practice of law issues, staff counsel
sends a letter of notice to the person or entity involved asking
for a response to the allegation. Staff counsel may also conduct
additional investigation, as needed. Staff counsel prepares a
report of counsel for the Committee, presenting the materials
from the complainant and the respondent, any investigative findings,
and a proposed course of action for the Committee's consideration.
The Committee determines whether there is probable cause to believe
that unauthorized practice has occurred and how the State Bar
should respond.
North Carolina
Personal Injury Lawyers
The North Carolina Bar Association is an organization that has
the primary goal of serving the public and legal profession by
ensuring that superior standards of integrity, justice, competence
and civility are provided for all members of the profession. This
organization, which has a total of 13,500 members is the largest
organization in North Carolina that strives to fulfill the different
professional needs of North Carolina personal injury lawyers,
as well as lawyers in different fields.
This organization is entirely separate from the North Carolina
State Bar, of which it is mandatory for any person practicing
to be a member of. The State Bar is responsible for ensuring the
regulations that all attorneys are to abide by and they are also
responsible for disciplining attorneys when they have strayed
from those regulations. The North Carolina Bar Association has
only the purpose of helping and serving North Carolina personal
injury lawyers and other attorneys.
Some of the services provided by the North Carolina Bar Association
are professional support, being an influential force regarding
issues of interest to the Bar, providing continuing education
programs in many different areas of law, a Lawyer Referral Service,
and support for attorneys providing pro bono services.
Any law student that is attending an ABA-accredited law school
may join the North Carolina Bar Association at no cost. Students
who wish to join the Association will be able to partake of many
of the advantages that are available to the attorney members.
These include Casemaker, the online member directory, and many
different networking opportunities. Division members will also
automatically become members of the Young Lawyers Division, a
division of the Association that sponsors committees and projects
throughout the entire year. The Young Lawyers Division also has
a mentoring program in place for any student that is enrolled
in any North Carolina law school.
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