North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Newton attorney John Cutchin will always remember the horrified look on his wife’s face after she answered the telephone in August 2007. The same phrase kept escaping her lips: “Oh God, oh God, oh God.” And in the moments that ...

Leaders of the N.C. Advocates for Justice have decided to move forward with a proposal for legal assistants to have a vote on its board of governors. In a unanimous vote, the board recently recommended “giving a vote, and not ...

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly recently caught up with trial lawyer George W. “Trey” Aycock, who was just named to Worth Magazine‘s Top 100 Attorneys list. A trial lawyer and board-certified family law specialist, Aycock is a partner at Coltrane Aycock ...

Carolina Paralegal News recently caught up with Jay-Jay Flanagan-Grannemann, first vice president and education chair of the Palmetto Paralegal Association in Columbia, S.C. Flanagan-Grannemann is a litigation paralegal at the Law Office of Daryl G. Hawkins and is certified through ...

When Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal initiated a plan to automate South Carolina’s judicial system in 2000, part of those plans involved getting all of court’s rosters online in one place. Doing so would create a single Web ...

Stephanie Gillespie is an N.C.-certified paralegal with Elmore & Wall in Raleigh. A former president of the Raleigh-Wake Paralegal Association, Gillespie now serves as a council member for the paralegal division of the N.C. Bar Association and is on the ...

Across North Carolina, scores of law students are dusting off their thinking caps and settling back into lecture hall desks after a few weeks of relaxation on winter break. But preparing for a new semester isn’t so leisurely for their ...

Apparently it can be tiresome to attend a football game with State Bar deputy counsel Root Edmonson. So says executive director Tom Lunsford, who has known Edmonson the longest serving member of the Bar’s staff for 27 years. “In making ...

In recognition of the State Bar’s 75th anniversary this year, North Carolina Lawyers Weekly recently caught up with its current president, John McMillan. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, McMillan is a shareholder with Manning ...

Macon County attorney Lesley Moxley was recently elected president of the North Carolina Association of County Attorneys. Moxley has served as the attorney for Macon County attorney since 2006. Before that, she spent more than six years as the attorney ...