North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The killing of George Floyd launched a nationwide reckoning with America’s history of racism. The ensuing movement against racism and racial injustice has already sparked changes that were both long overdue and yet until recently would have been difficult to ...

Tagged with: Racial Profiling

  There was a poetic bit of symmetry in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, in which the court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that bans ...

Tagged with: LGBTQ

More than 700 aspiring lawyers are set to gather for an in-person bar exam at the end of July as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in North Carolina continues to rise, particularly among younger residents. The North Carolina Board ...

Tagged with: Bar Exam

  The Ethics Committee of the North Carolina Bar is preparing to discuss three proposals that would add anti-discrimination language to the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct. During a special meeting of the ethics committee on June 26 that was ...

Tagged with: discrimination

  It can be hard at times to find anything nice to say about the year 2020, but North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Cheri Beasley sounded an optimistic note while delivering a socially distanced State of the Judiciary Address, saying ...

Tagged with: state of judiciary

Attorney: Steven J. Allen Location: Hendersonville Bar membership: Member since 2006 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for one year on June 22 Background: Allen entered into a sexual relationship with a client after he began representing her ...

Attorney: Kris V. Williams Location: Sylva Bar membership: Member since 2001 Disciplinary action: Reprimanded on Feb. 18 Background: Williams entered into a business transaction with a client in which he solicited and accepted a $40,000 loan without advising the client ...

Attorney: Anton M. Lebedev Location: Raleigh Bar membership: Member since 2014 Disciplinary action: Reprimanded on May 14 Background: Lebedev represented a client in several cases across multiple counties. On more than one occasion during the course of the representation, Lebedev asserted ...

Attorney: Peter Stanley Coleman Location: Raleigh Bar membership: Member since 1997 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on June 4 Background: Coleman misappropriated in excess of $60,000 of entrusted funds and forged the signature of a notary public on numerous jurats filed with ...

  Death row inmates who sought to have their sentences reduced under the state’s Racial Justice Act before the law was repealed in 2013 may continue to argue their cases, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled, holding that lawmakers’ ...

Tagged with: Racial Justice Act