By Amber Nimocks
Published: May 10,2013
The most noticeable changes to the North Carolina bar exam in the past 25 years have been environmental – larger venues, the migration to laptops, and explosive growth in the number of law grads. The substance of the exam, however, remains much as it was when a break from bar prep meant cranking up Def Leppard and downing a Jolt cola.
By David Donovan
Published: September 7,2012
Now that college football season is underway, we thought we’d try an interesting experiment: What if college football teams were ranked on the basis of how highly placed their law schools are in the U.S. News & World Report rankings?
By Amber Nimocks
Published: September 7,2012
More than 72 percent of those who took the North Carolina bar exam in July passed, putting passage rate for the plagued exam on par with rates from past summers. Here’s a look at the numbers released by the BLE this week.
By Amber Nimocks
Published: August 31,2012
Once the locavore was born, could the locattorney be far behind? The “Eat Local” movement, begun as an effort to support small, nearby farmers in lieu of distant, corporate agriculture, has spawned a range of similar spending philosophies -- and correlating bumper stickers. And coming soon to a bumper near you: “Contract Local.”
By Amber Nimocks
Published: August 3,2012
Digital natives abhor an information vacuum, and they expect their elders to embrace technology. But when the summer bar exam went awry two weeks ago, it was all vacuum and no embrace. So it was only natural that traffic to our site spiked on the news that the N.C. Board of Law Examiners was mulling its options following a power outage on Tuesday, July 24, the first day of the July bar exam.
By Amber Nimocks
Published: July 26,2012
Here’s one question bar prep didn’t address: When the power goes out during the afternoon session and you’re in the middle of completing an essay on your laptop, what is the appropriate response? Answer: Keep calm and sweat.
By David Donovan
Published: July 20,2012
The email solicitation almost has the feel of a late-night infomercial. If you act now, they’ll also throw in a free iPad. But the sender isn’t offering a new gadget no modern kitchen should be without—the pitch is for a legal education at Charlotte School of Law. And Charlotte is surely not the only law school laboring to fill seats for the incoming first-year class.
By Amber Nimocks
Published: July 20,2012
Two North Carolina law schools have claimed a new honor: a spot on The National Jurist’s inaugural list of most innovative law schools, released today.
By Amber Nimocks
Published: July 11,2012
The expressions of panic coming from the Twitter feeds of this spring’s law school grads has reached a near-audible pitch as the days until the bar exam dwindle. Sentiments like “Please excuse me while I overreact irrationally,” “Cannot get enough caffeine,” “Just woke up from my second bar exam nightmare” and the common refrain “What day is it?” create a digital portrait of the class of 2012’s collective psyche.
By Amber Nimocks
Published: June 29,2012
New employment numbers from the American Bar Association show that 2011 graduates of most North Carolina law schools fared better than the national average when it came to landing long-term, full-time jobs fresh out of school. The numbers, from the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, paint a more detailed picture of post-graduate employment than has been offered in prior years.
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State v. Bean Although the state elicited evidence that defendant exercised her right to remain silent, given the other evidence of defendant’s guilt – her own admissions to a nurse, “I killed my husband just because I finally had enough of him” and “I’m guilty” and the victim’s fear that defendant would kill him – the prosecutor’s comments and questions regarding whether defendant mentioned self-defense prior to trial had little bearing on the jury finding defendant guilty.
State v. Primus Even though the list of the elements of attempted felonious larceny set out in State v. Weaver, 123 N.C. App. 276, 473 S.E.2d 362 (1996), included “falling short of the completed offense,” and even though the state proved that defendant completed the offense of felonious larceny, this does not require the conclusion that proof of the completed offense disproves the attempt to commit. The completed commission of a crime must of necessity include an attempt to commit the crime.
State v. Ingram though one of the eyewitnesses was only 10 years old at the time of the shooting, the credibility of the witness’s identification of defendant was a question for the jury.
