North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Patrick Mincey enjoyed his time doing heavy duty criminal law work, a period which included death penalty cases and those involving major stints in prison.   “It is an awesome responsibility to stand up at the defense table and represent individuals ...

Tagged with: Whistleblower

Dozens of Wake County employees will be compensated with more than $378,000 as part of a settlement over wage and hour issues.   “It was quite complex to figure it all out but once we did, we filed suit and ...

Tagged with: Fair Labor Standards Act

What’s in a name?   For some amateur athletes, the answer may be defined in dollars and cents, thanks to court cases and legislative efforts that are fast changing the rules of the once-staid world of university athletics.   Last year’s U.S. ...

Tagged with: name and likeness

Attorney Erik Syverson works hard at his job, but he is the first to admit that the research model for his Internet law and civil litigation practice doesn’t fit the shopworn image one might have for lawyerly investigation.   In fact, ...

Tagged with: Social Media

Four lawsuits over the city of Charlotte’s taking of adjacent properties near the city’s center have been consolidated into one $1.07 million settlement, the landowner’s attorney reports.  Thomas “Tommy” Odom Jr. of The Odom Firm in Charlotte reports that the ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

 An eminent domain lawsuit over a Wilmington property that houses a CVS drugstore has reached a $3.2 million settlement, the landowner’s attorneys report.   George Autry Jr., Stephanie Autry, and Jeremy Hopkins of Cranfill Sumner in Raleigh report that the ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

The North Carolina Department of Transportation will pay $2.9 million to a landowner after its road-widening operation required it to take part of a three-acre tract of land in Caldwell County that had previously had an unobstructed view into the ...

Tagged with: Eminent Domain

An insurer will pay nearly $1 million to an estate after a fatal crash in which a tractor trailer overturned onto another vehicle, according to the lawyer in the case, the estate’s attorneys report. Mark Melrose and Adam Melrose of ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

A motor vehicle collision that led to the death of an elderly man has resulted in a $2 million settlement, the estate’s attorney reports.  Donald Strickland of Durham reports that the victim spent roughly three weeks in the hospital after ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

Doris White didn’t live to see the conclusion of her lawsuit against the North Carolina Department of Transportation, but her attorney, Matthew Bryant of Hendrick Bryant Nerhood Sanders & Otis in Winston-Salem, said the $2.8 million settlement in her case ...

Tagged with: Map Act