Arkansas Legal Intel

The Pulaski County Circuit Clerk's County Records Department serves as the central repository for all Pulaski County court documents, providing copies to courts and the public while maintaining court orders, contracts, and petitions.

The Arkansas Bar Association has published a collection of materials on Issuu titled "The Arkansas Lawyer Stack.".

Beyond civil-rights and consumer-protection statutes, many AR jurisdictions have fee-shifting provisions in landlord-tenant, mechanics' lien, insurance bad-faith, and construction-defect contexts. Pleading the fee-shifting statute in the complaint is typically required to preserve the right to recover.

Enforceability of employee non-competes varies dramatically by state and is trending toward narrower enforcement nationally. Common defects include geographic scope broader than the employer's actual market, duration longer than necessary to protect a legitimate interest, and lack of consideration beyond continued employment.

Client trust funds and the firm's operating funds must never commingle, even temporarily, even with the intent to "fix it later." Bar audits look for two things first: (1) any check or transfer that touches both accounts, (2) negative balances on any specific client's ledger. Both are presumptive misappropriation regardless of intent.