North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

When it comes to judicial pay, North Carolina has fallen far behind.   According to a recent report from the National Center for State Courts, North Carolina ranks 47th in the nation for salaries for the state’s highest court. Here, the ...

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By Troy Shelton  Two of the blockbuster cases at the U.S. Supreme Court this term hail from North Carolina. Here’s a look at the two cases, now that oral arguments are over.  The Affirmative Action Cases   No need to bury ...

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By Troy Shelton  There’s no shortage of debate, among lawyers at least, about whether to continue electing judges. But no less important is what judicial elections mean for the nature of judging.    In North Carolina, we’ve been electing our judges ...

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By Nick Hurston BTM Wire Services  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has applied the private sector “materially adverse” standard for retaliatory conduct to reverse the dismissal of a federal employee’s race-based retaliation and harassment claims under Title VII.   ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected] Alabama-based Maynard Cooper & Gale and Carolinas-based Nexsen Pruet have agreed to merge into one national law firm operating under the name Maynard Nexsen effective April 1, 2023. As a combined firm, Maynard Nexsen will join ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected]  The North Carolina Justice Center announced the appointment of Reginald T. Shuford as its next executive director.   Shuford is from Wilmington, N.C., and is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law, according to a news ...

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By Nick Hurston BTM Wire Services  A plaintiff who said a required physical fitness test was a discriminatory condition of her government employment and that she was injured by a loss of income when she resigned after failing it can ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected]  On Nov. 4, Carolina Law alumni, students, faculty and staff are joined members of Sylvia X. Allen’s family as well as special guests for the unveiling of the portrait of Sylvia X. Allen, a 1962 graduate.   ...

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By David Dubberly Nexsen Pruet  On Sept. 1, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a news release claiming that a financial services employer “violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act” (SOX) by ...

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By Bill Nettles and Gary Jackson  As powerful and advanced as tech companies are, they, like other organizations, can be laid low by a particular nemesis: the good old-fashioned whistleblower.    Indeed, a thoughtful, well-prepared whistleblower – as former Twitter security ...

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