North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A woman whose car overturned when another driver changed lanes and hit her on U.S. 421 in Winston-Salem has won a settlement award of almost $435,000. The accident was in June 2010. The woman was driving with her two children ...

Tagged with: personal injury

If your plans for a Halloween costume involve a disposable hazmat suit and pair of aviator glasses, we’re going to stop you right there.  Do you have any idea how many other Walter Whites you’re going to run into? Even ...

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A jury takes the Union County commission to school, telling it to pony up $91 million for educational building needs A record-setting $91 million jury award – more than 10 times what the plaintiffs had asked for before trial – ...

If you think regular exercise will save you from the damage you do to your body by sitting in front of a computer drafting briefs for eight, 10, 12 hours a day, the BBC has bad news for you. According ...

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Even if you don’t like how voters answer Public Policy Polling surveys, you’ve got to admire PPP’s questions. Plenty of pollsters have taken the pulse of the country since the federal government shutdown began but PPP’s take is the only ...

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Anyone who needs something else to worry about will be grateful to know that Gov. Pat McCrory is here to help. In a proclamation issued last week, McCrory declared Oct. 17 to be Earthquake Preparedness Day, and reminded North Carolinians ...

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As of late last week, an online petition imploring the owners of Charleston School of Law not to sell it to the InfiLaw group had gained more than 1,000 signatures. But the school’s two majority-holding board members remain steadfast in their commitment to turn it over to a deep-pocketed suitor.

Tagged with: Charleston School of Law

A CLE program titled “War of the Roses in the Digital Age,” put on last month in Greensboro, included the presentation of a fake Facebook page that surprised attendees with its breadth of information and authentic feel. Family lawyer Ketan Soni had asked an attorney who would be at the seminar for permission to impersonate her virtually, using only information found online. Soni, who practices with Hull & Chandler in Charlotte, said the exercise illustrated how vulnerable clients’ virtual identities are to spouses with bad intentions.

Tagged with: Social Media

The white-hot popularity of the sleazy lawyer character Saul Goodman on television’s “Breaking Bad” reveals a couple of truths about the age in which we live. First, these are the golden days of television writing. The dialogue flows like honey ...

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The state’s Industrial Commission recently reversed a deputy commissioner’s decision and reinstated a 57-year-old former janitor’s disability payments that had been put on hold in 1998. It also ordered the state to pay more than $50,000 he had been denied over the past five years.

Tagged with: Disability Benefits