So I looked up his linked in profile and he lists himself as the executive director of the North Carolina Small Practice Incubator and Collaboration Environment (NC SPICE). He lists his time in this position as 2012 to the present. He describes it as follows, "We are a group of legal professionals, educators, and community leaders, all dedicated to improving access to our court system with the help of attorneys in solo and small practice."
I tried to look up information about NC SPICE (TM). The first four links are for the NC Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology. (e.g.
https://spice.unc.edu/ &
https://www.aplushcc.com/classes/nc-spice/)
Then there's
http://ncspice.com/ - A floral shop apparently called The Rose Barn
Then come a few restaurants and the NC lottery.
The first actual page referencing Doucette's NC Spice is on the second page of web results and directs to
https://www.lawdevnull.com/tag/nc-spice/ - which is every page in his blog tagged with NC SPICE. There is a link to the NC SPICE website, which is (
http://www.ncspice.org/) very amazingly Site Offline. The most recent blog post tagged with NC SPICE was in 2014.
He tells us, in part,
I’ve learned after writing this blog for almost 5 years now that I have -0- clue what the future is going to hold.
See, e.g., me thinking I might make it to Marine Corps OCS (nope), or me thinking I might become a prosecutor (negative), or my in-retrospect-absurdly-ambitious plans for NC SPICE (LOL).
The most recent post mentioning NC SPICE was in 2014 and in Jan 2014 he writes, "
For a quick recap on the resolutions themselves, you can read the entry from a year ago today. The reasons for the failures are numerous, but in a nutshell: NC SPICE wasn’t approved for 501(c)(3) status until late in the year and is (temporarily) dead in the water, I stopped exercising and regained every. single. pound. I lost the year before,1 and the number I picked as a revenue target for my law firm in Year 1 was a wild guess with no relation to anything even vaguely resembling reality."
I get trying to start a 501c3 and being overly optimistic about it succeeding. I get having it fail. I get learning from the experience. Not sure I get having it on your linked in bio as if it were still active and you were actually accomplishing the things you mention in its description. (Oh, who am I kidding! I totally get that someone so addicted to feeling good about themselves that they tweet 400 times in a day for that heady dopamine rush would put misleading information in his life story).
Also interesting that he goes the extra step of adding that little TM after NC SPICE on his profile. Now, I may not understand searching for trademarks, so maybe someone out there can do a better job. I didn't find anything for NC SPICE on the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Is Doucette being less than accurate in representing the fact that he actually obtained a trademark for NC SPICE?
