After experiencing discrimination at her local library, 14-year-old Valerie Johnson wandered across the street into the Vance County Courthouse. She sat in shock as she watched the same inequality repeated. “I saw a case going on that I thought was ...
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In 1970, Victoria Eslinger, a first-year law student at the University of South Carolina, approached a Senate clerk with her application to serve as a page. “He leaned down and looked at me and said, ‘Well, you’re a girl,’ and I ...
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In the late night of Jan. 7, 2019, a fire explosion caused significant injury to two employees of an independently contracted janitorial team, Alvin Spencer and Frederick Avery, after being directed to clean grout with a flammable solvent by their ...
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A Wake County mother and child were injured during a collision with a drunk driver. The plaintiffs have settled their claims against the driver and the establishments that served him for $2.51 million, the plaintiff’s attorneys, Winston Kirby and Andrew ...
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On Aug. 4, 2021, the defendant was driving a commercial dump truck on Moores Chapel Road in Mecklenburg County. According to the plaintiff counsel, Ronard Dixon, the defendant’s dump truck veered off the right side of the road and then made ...
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After nearly 30 years as a litigation attorney, Clark Goodman decided to hang up his attorney cap, and switch into the world of legal recruiting for the national firm, Latitude, when it launched a Charlotte office in January 2023. Goodman, ...
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Hand in hand with his mother, 3-year-old Spencer Merriweather marched in protest of the brutal lynching of Michael Donald, in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. “The Klan picked him up in the middle of the night,” Merriweather said. “They beat ...
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Read More »Chief Justice Paul Newby has appointed Deputy Director Ryan S. Boyce as director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, effective April 4, according to a news release. His role will be to manage and oversee the administrative ...
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Read More »Attorneys Hunt Willis and Steven Corriveau have been named shareholders of the Raleigh law firm Martin & Jones, PLLC, according to a news release. Willis joined the firm in August of 2013 and Corriveau joined in May of 2015. “The ...
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Read More »Hall Booth Smith, P.C. has opened a new office in Raleigh. The HBS Raleigh office will be led by new HBS Partner, Maria P. Wood, according to an HBS news release. Wood will be joined by associate attorneys Elliott Andrews ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
