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Home>David Baugher, BridgeTower Media Newswires

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Recent Articles from David Baugher, BridgeTower Media Newswires

Top Legal News January 18, 2023

Blowing the whistle

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 who are facing the loss of liberty,” said Mincey, 41. “I did not think it […]

Top Legal News September 23, 2022

Employees to be compensated as part of settlement 

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 then we ended up settling the case,” said attorney Ryan Oxendine of Oxendine Barnes & […]

Top Legal News August 16, 2022

GAME CHANGER: Name, image and likeness challenges the legal industry 

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. Supreme Court ruling regarding NCAA policies on compensation of students may have been limited in […]

Top Legal News July 18, 2022

SOCIAL DISTRACTION: How social media has changed the legal playing field 

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, he compares traditional discovery processes to “the horse and buggy.”   “I bust cases wide open […]

Top Legal News February 21, 2022

Charlotte to pay $1.07M for land for trolley line 

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 city initially planned to take nearly 12,400 square feet for a road realignment project and […]

Top Legal News February 15, 2022

DOT to pay $3.2M for loss of parking at drug store 

 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 dispute concerned parking issues that the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s road-widening plans might create.  […]

Top Legal News February 9, 2022

By gorge: DOT to pay $2.9M for taking scenic land 

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 Grandfather Mountain Gorge, the landowner’s attorneys report. George Autry Jr., Stephanie Autry, and Jeremy Hopkins […]

Top Legal News February 7, 2022

Insurer to pay family $964K after fatal crash 

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 Melrose Law in Waynesville report that Deward Caldwell was killed when a truck owned by […]

Top Legal News February 3, 2022

87-year-old man’s estate reaches $2M settlement 

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 a crash in which the defendant’s truck had run a stop sign and struck his […]

Top Legal News February 1, 2022

DOT to pay estate $2.8M in one of last Map Act cases 

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 had been a long time in coming.  “Fighting the State of North Carolina is not […]

Top Legal News January 14, 2022

Deadly gas leak leads to $5.5M settlement

A case involving a deadly explosion prompted by a gas leak at a North Carolina home has been settled for $5.5 million, the plaintiffs’ attorneys report. John Jensen of Jensen Law Group on Chapel Hill and Lee Falls of Falls Law Firm in Charlotte report that the blast destroyed the home, killing both the husband […]

Top Legal News January 10, 2022

$900K awarded after girl hit after exiting school bus

A kindergartener who was struck by a vehicle after disembarking from her bus will collect $900,000 from the local school district and the driver of the car that hit her, the attorneys for the girl’s family report. Sam McGee of Tin, Fulton, Walker & Owen in Charlotte and Mark Atkinson of The Atkinson Law Firm […]

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