North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The alleged improprieties by plaintiff’s financial-adviser-turned-real-estate-agent had already occurred before the defendant-attorney came into plaintiff’s real estate deal as escrow agent and closing attorney. Even though plaintiff filed its legal malpractice claim within four years of the attorney’s last act ...

After the trial court denied defendant’s request for attorney’s fees under N.C. R. Civ. P. 11, defendant filed a motion under N.C. R. Civ. P. 60(b) requesting attorney’s fees on an entirely new legal basis: G.S. § 55-7-46(2). As a ...

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly was honored with three awards for exemplary journalism at the North Carolina Press Association’s 2019 annual convention on March 21. Lawyers Weekly won first prize in its division for Election/Political Reporting for its reporting on the ...

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Restricting the defendant-doctor’s ability to practice in the most populated areas of North Carolina when there are very few oculofacial plastic surgeons, and even fewer who perform some of the specialized procedures he is trained to provide, raises a substantial ...

The intervenor-maternal grandmother had already intervened in this custody action and been awarded visitation, so the subsequent termination of the defendant-mother’s parental rights (in a separate action) did not affect the grandmother’s visitation rights. We reverse the trial court’s orders ...

James W. Zisa was disbarred on March 8. He surrendered his law license voluntarily.

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The court believes plaintiff is unlikely to succeed on appeal, and it is not likely to be prejudiced by the lack of a stay pending appeal, so, in its discretion, the court denies plaintiff’s motion for a stay under N.C. ...

After defendant was found (with a white substance on and in his nose) in someone else’s house, the owner consented to a search of the house, and the search turned up, among other things, a black plastic bag containing smaller ...

Where the state presented evidence that (1) defendant occupied and possessed witness Bruce Beam’s car for two days prior to defendant’s arrest; (2) at the time of his arrest, two sheets of fake $20 bills were found in a pocket ...

After defendant was arrested and charged with impaired driving and failure to maintain lane control by uniform citation on Aug. 7, 2015, a grand jury returned a presentment and indictment on the charge in superior court on Feb. 27, 2017. ...