North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  As COVID-19 restrictions ease and vaccines become more universally available, law firms are planning their grand re-openings—reviewing past work models, analyzing present ones, and deliberating how to resume “normal” operations in the future.  The urgency with which firms are ...

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Looking to advance racial equity and help reconstruct a deeply imbalanced system, nearly 300 law firms across the country have joined the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, a collaborative, pro bono project formed last summer after several events sparked nationwide protests ...

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Civil disobedience is principally defined as nonviolent political protests intended to condemn and bring about change in government laws or policy. It’s long been practiced by those seeking political change, but its practice appears to be picking up again in ...

Some survivors of domestic violence walk away from abusive relationships and begin rebuilding. But others doubt that they can safely walk away. Since 2016, Legal Aid of North Carolina and Campbell Law School’s Blanchard Community Law Clinic have provided free ...

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It was about one year ago today that managing partners and general counsel everywhere found themselves frantically brainstorming, mass e-mailing, and calling emergency meetings, hoping to get ahead of a virus that threatened to close firms’ doors for what everyone ...

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In theory, all litigants have the right to appeal a trial court’s ruling in a civil case. In practice, appeals are expensive, so many people have no realistic way of exercising this right—unless they can find help. Take one typical ...

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Prisons are super-spreaders for COVID-19, but it’s actually the minimum-security prisons that pose the maximum risk of spreading the disease—and the inmates most at risk are often ones serving relatively short sentences for minor crimes. But thanks to volunteer attorneys ...

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When Brandon Heffinger was a student at Wake Forest School of Law and a reserve company commander with Third Battalion, 25th Marines, he noticed an uptick in Marines, many of them combat veterans, who were facing legal problems and being ...

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Even before COVID-19 hit, housing prices in Charlotte had been on the rise for years and wages, particularly those of low-income individuals, had failed to keep pace. The economic fallout caused by the pandemic has only made the situation more ...

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With the help of several firms working pro bono, the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center is doing its best to help small businesses and nonprofits keep their workers employed and their doors open. Soon after COVID-19 began wreaking economic ...

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