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Felony upheld for having gun in car parked in alley lot at UNC
If you weren’t looking for it, you’d miss Porthole Alley. But it’s there, right off East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, near the Carolina Coffee Shop. About a half-block long, […]
Many NC private colleges’ police forces in question after ruling
How many of North Carolina’s private colleges and universities are church-affiliated? More than you can shake a stick at. Brevard College, Belmont Abbey College, Mount Olive College, Gardner-Webb University, to […]
Bar exam posts an attrition rate of two
Whew. They’re done. The summer 2010 bar exam is over, and the numbers are in: This year 1,048 law school graduates took the exam, down from last year’s 1,136. Whoops. […]
Syrupy-smelling urine and other stories that didn’t make the cut
Every day, I trawl newspaper websites across the state to find law-related articles to post in our daily e-mail alerts. The idea is to find the serious, meaty stuff that […]
Herd of bar examinees hits the fairgrounds for ‘judging’
By 7 a.m. Tuesday, the sun was already beginning to beat down as the parking lots filled up at the fairgrounds in Raleigh. No one wanted to be late. No […]
Obituaries
Bertha M. Holt Bertha “B” Merrill Holt died June 18. She was 93 years old. A native of Eufaula, Ala., Holt earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1938 from […]
Lawyers, organizations receive pro bono awards
The North Carolina Bar Association, in conjunction with the NCBA Foundation’s Public Service Advisory Committee, presented the 2010 Pro Bono Service Awards on June 25. The recipients are: * Cynthia […]
Hanna receives Lake Public Service Award
George V. Hanna III of Charlotte was honored by the NCBA as the 2010 recipient of the Dr. I. Beverly Lake Public Service Award. NCBA Past President Janet Ward Black […]
Lawyers In The News
The American Bar Foundation has selected Asheville attorney Thomas Grella as a fellow. A business attorney whose law practice focus is on commercial transactions, Grella publishes a blog on legal […]
NCBA recognizes a dozen ‘Citizen Lawyers’
The North Carolina Bar Association, in conjunction with the Citizen Lawyer Task Force, recognized the 2010 recipients of the Citizen Lawyer Award on June 25 at the NCBA Annual Meeting […]
NCBA names new vice presidents, board members
The Board of Governors of the North Carolina Bar Association elected new vice presidents and board members on June 26, at the annual meeting in Wilmington. Doyle Early of Wyatt […]
Connette recognized as ‘Renaissance’ lawyer
Edward G. “Woody” Connette of Charlotte has been selected by the North Carolina Bar Association as the 2010 recipient of the H. Brent McKnight Renaissance Lawyer Award. A graduate of […]
Legal Tech
- Gemini Legal launches DraftEngine for civil litigation forms
- Lawyers continue to grapple with AI ethical issues
- Are AI prompts privileged? Time will tell
Top Legal News
- Writers Guild sues to block Paramount deal, saying it would hurt writers
- Buncombe Commissioner Jennifer Horton sues the county. They respond.
- US appeals court revives hundreds of private lawsuits linking Tylenol to autism
- Pretrial stipulations binding in equitable distribution dispute
- Apple sues OpenAI, two former employees for trade secrets theft
- Downtown Asheville bar sued after patron’s wrong-way fatal I-40 crash
- Defective lien filing defeats contractor’s enforcement claim
Commentary
- We tore out our own backup generator
- When is a PIP an adverse employment action?
- Legally Speaking: What spring can teach us about active listening
- A useful patent management government notice
- Opinion: NC judges have enormous power. Be sure to vote in November
- The third option: Why your best employees are quietly losing their edge
- AI divorce is real, but family law can still save itself
- ‘AI won’t take your job’ and other things CEOs say before the layoffs
