By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: September 30,2011
Womble Carlyle managing partner Keith Vaughan has been named to the board of directors of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms. Lex Mundi’s membership includes 160 law firms in more than 100 countries, representing more than 21,000 attorneys. Vaughan has served as Womble Carlyle’s managing partner since 2002.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: September 2,2011
David A. Shuford has joined Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson as Counsel in the firm’s Charlotte office. Prior to joining Robinson Bradshaw, Shuford was an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and served as a legal advisor at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal at The Hague. Danny Glover is the new legislative vice president for North Carolina Advocates for Justice, representing the group at the General Assembly. Glover is a partner at Teague & Glover in Elizabeth City.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: August 19,2011
Jill Cox, an attorney with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in Winston-Salem, has been appointed as the “Partnering with Industry Liaison” for DRI’s employment law committee. DRI is the international organization of attorneys defending the interests of business and individuals in civil litigation. Cox focuses her practice on employment litigation and employment counseling.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: August 12,2011
Allison E. Hager has joined Moore & Van Allen’s Charlotte office as a staff attorney in the financial services practice group Hager represents banks, financial institutions and corporate clients in secured and unsecured lending transactions, including single-lender and syndicated loans. She is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, Mecklenburg County Bar, and North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: August 5,2011
Wake Forest University School of Law Professor Dick Schneider has been named the new associate dean for inter-national affairs, and Holly Hedgecock is the new director of the international programs at WFU School of Law. In his new role, Schneider will oversee the Master of Laws (LL.M) program, the Scientiae Juridicae Doctor (S.J.D.) degree and study-abroad programs as well as international student and faculty exchanges. In her new role, Hedgecock will direct the daily operations associated with the international graduate programs and summer study-abroad programs.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: July 29,2011
Smith Moore Leatherwood attorney Jill Raspet has been elected to the North Carolina Bar Association’s board of governors. Raspet will serve a three-year term ending in 2014. As a member of the trusts and estates team in Smith Moore Leatherwood’s Wilmington office, Raspet assists clients in drafting and executing comprehensive estate plans, with specific emphasis on estate tax, gift tax and charitable gift planning. She also assists fiduciaries on matters involving estate and trust administration. Raspet is a North Carolina State Bar Board certified specialist in estate planning and probate law, and graduated from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and the Wake Forest University School of Law.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: July 22,2011
Terry Hutchens, the managing partner of the law firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A. in Fayetteville, has been appointed to the North Carolina Bar Association’s Citizen-Lawyer Committee for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. The committee promotes the public service of attorneys in North Carolina through the Citizen Lawyer Award, which recognizes those who exemplify the ideals of community involvement. Hutchens, who recently received the American Business Ethics Award, is also a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. He earned his undergraduate degree at North Carolina State University, his M.B.A. from Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management, and his Juris Doctor from Wake Forest School of Law.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: July 8,2011
Stephen D. Poe, an attorney and director at the law firm of Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A., has been elected firm president. He succeeds Walter W. (Wrennie) Pitt, who has completed his tenure as firm president and will continue his full-time law practice at the firm. Poe, whose law practice is concentrated in banking law and commercial transactions, joined the firm in 1988, after working in the legal department of NCNB Corporation, the predecessor of Bank of America. He was elected a director of the firm in 1989 and has served on, or chaired, the firm’s strategic planning, marketing and investments committees.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: June 24,2011
Steve Reinhard and Ronald Tucceri have formed the law firm of Reinhard Tucceri, PLLC, in the Research Triangle Park area. Reinhard is a North Carolina board certified specialist in real property: business, commercial and industrial transactions. Tucceri is a former vice president with American Tower.
By North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: June 3,2011
The Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University has named Melodye Hendrix senior director of development. She will oversee development, alumni relations and communications to include all aspects of fundraising, annual fund and major gifts for the law school.
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State v. Squires When a state trooper saw a pickup truck on the side of the road after midnight and stopped to see if any assistance was needed, he was not required to leave after a person outside the truck told him everything was okay. The trooper did not impermissibly extend the stop when he checked on the driver of the vehicle.
State v. Rouse Even though, in his opening and closing statements, defense counsel referred to the arresting officers as “very good officers,” counsel did so in the context of arguing that everyone makes mistakes. Counsel could have reasonably made a tactical decision to refrain from challenging the officers’ general professionalism and competence, while still encouraging the jury to find that the officers arrested defendant on May 23, 2010 as a result of their inadvertent mistakes.
Robinson v. North Carolina Department of Correction Where plaintiff testified that, all the way around his wrist, there were “teeth marks” from too-tight handcuffs and that his wrist was bruised and swollen, but where a drawing plaintiff made to document his injuries indicated that only his left finger and thumb were swollen with no indication of bruising, discoloration, a cut or “teeth marks” laterally around his wrist, the evidence supports the Industrial Commission’s finding that plaintiff’s drawing was inconsistent with his testimony regarding his injuries.
Pickney v. Department of Transportation Even though the parties’ settlement agreement provided that plaintiff could “request a job reallocation or pay grade increase” and that defendant would “cooperate with such a request,” the settlement agreement did not provide plaintiff with any guarantee that he would actually receive a job reallocation or pay grade increase upon request. Even if plaintiff proved that defendant breached the settlement agreement by failing to cooperate with his request for a second job reallocation, plaintiff’s evidence provided no basis upon which the trial court could have properly calculated damages.
