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LAW SCHOOL RECEPTIONS ON TAP AT GROVE PARK INN   
All seven North Carolina law schools will host concurrent receptions on Friday night, June 22, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. during the NCBA Annual Meeting at the Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville. New and retiring deans will be recognized, and classmates will gather to reconnect and hear updates from their schools. An additional reception for out-of-state graduates will welcome everyone from the remaining 190 U.S. law schools. Wear your school colors and show your pride. Contact your alumni affairs office for more details. Full weekend schedule and online registration for the Annual Meeting are available via the link below.
http://www.ncbar.org/featuredItems/1/2141/index.aspx

BLAKE MORANT APPOINTED WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF LAW DEAN
Professor Blake D. Morant of the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Va., has been named the new dean of the School of Law at Wake Forest University. Currently associate dean for academic affairs and Roy L. Steinheimer, Jr. professor of law at Washington and Lee, Morant will succeed Robert K. Walsh, who is ending a successful 18-year deanship at Wake Forest School of Law and plans a return to the law school faculty in the fall of 2008. Morant will begin his duties as dean at Wake Forest School of Law on July 1.
http://law.wfu.edu/x10628.xml

NC LEAP BECOMES REALITY FOR LOW-INCOME N.C. BUSINESS OWNERS
Following years of planning, NC LEAP will soon be open for business. NC LEAP, or the North Carolina Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Program, is a collaborative project of the North Carolina Bar Association and the NCBA Foundation with the NCBA’s Business Law and Corporate Counsel sections. The program provides low-wealth, small business owners with legal assistance in starting or growing their businesses by matching clients with pro bono attorneys. The official ribbon-cutting for NC LEAP is slated for 10:30 a.m. on June 4 at the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship in Greensboro.
http://www.ncbar.org/news/1/2264/index.aspx

LAW SCHOOL GRADS REJECT LARGE FIRMS FOR SUMMER JOBS
While most law school graduates continue to accept jobs in the private sector, the percentage of jobs at large, private firms has decreased each year since the class of 2001. The percentage of jobs accepted in firms with 101 attorneys or more has fallen from 42.6 percent in 2001 to 37.3 percent in 2005, according to Washington-based NALP, a nonprofit organization that tracks legal employment. Concerned by large firms’ increasing billable-hour requirements and high attrition rates, many students are opting to choose smaller firms or the public interest sector for summer jobs.
http://www.law.com/jsp/law/sfb/lawArticleSFB.jsp?id=1179479099018

MOBILE TIME ENTRY PROMOTES ACCURACY, CREDIBILITY
According to ILTA’s 2006 Technology Survey, aggregrate usage of PDAs at large firms is 74 percent, but only five percent of firms offer attorneys a mobile version of a core application, time entry. Although most lawyers view time entry as a burden, it is also recognized as an important way to communicate and build credibility with clients. Time entries are the most consistent form of detailed update to clients and can help track progress on a case, remember communications between parties and itemize value. Several mobile time capture systems are available to record activity at the moment it occurs.
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1179944592598

WEB SITE OF THE WEEK
Meeting Bridge, the newest partner in the NCBA discount program, provides a full complement of conferencing services - including automated teleconferencing, operator-assisted teleconferencing, Web casting and video casting - at a fraction of the cost of our competitors. This easy-to-use conferencing tool is already in use by the NCBA for remote section council and committee meetings. Learn more about this program or sign up via the link below to begin receiving benefits.
http://www.ncbar.org/membership/affinityPartners/meetingBridge.aspx