North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A woman who suffered permanent, debilitating brain injuries after a non-fatal drowning has settled her negligence claim for $4.1 million, her attorneys report.   The plaintiff was represented by Amanda Mingo and Katie Clary of Rawls, Scheer, Clary & Mingo in ...

Tagged with: Negligence

Former Mecklenburg County public defender Toussaint Romain has been named the new CEO for the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, an agency that provides legal representation to those who are unable to afford it.   Romain, the center’s first leader of ...

Tagged with: Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy

Judges and justices of North Carolina’s courts are sworn to be independent of partisan politics and to conduct themselves in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.   Some are saying state Supreme Court ...

Tagged with: Phil Berger Jr.

Former Mecklenburg County public defender Toussaint Romain has been named the new CEO for the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, an agency that provides legal representation to those who are unable to afford it.   Romain, the center’s first leader ...

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A full North Carolina Industrial Commission may reconsider evidence before the deputy commissioner, receive additional evidence and amend the deputy commissioner’s award where it finds “good ground” to do so, the state’s Court of Appeals has held in a case ...

Tagged with: Industrial Commission

A charging document in a juvenile action for extortion need not specifically identify the alleged victim for a trial court to have jurisdiction, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in a matter of first impression.   In its April ...

Tagged with: Extortion

A woman serving 19 years in prison for killing her paramour inside her bedroom will get a new trial after the North Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously determined that the trial court erred by instructing the jury on the aggressor ...

Tagged with: aggressor

A “sugar baby” who threatened to include a Charlotte man in a racy memoir of their adulterous dating service trysts unless he paid her significant hush money wasn’t entitled to a “true threat” analysis before she was convicted of extortion, ...

Tagged with: Extortion

Results are in from February’s bar exam, and the state’s first in-person exam since the summer of 2020 saw 175 law graduates pass the exam, out of 348 who sat for it, for a pass rate of 50.3 percent.  The ...

Tagged with: Law Exam

Two North Carolina law schools made modest jumps in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Law School rankings, which were announced on March 29.  After taking a significant drop several years ago, Wake Forest has been steadily climbing ...

Tagged with: Wake Forest School of Law