North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY DAVE POSTON While attorneys have made great strides in recent years expanding remote worker policies and capabilities, as well as having a newfound commitment toward wellness, COVID-19 forced immediate implementation upon the legal industry. Timelines vary, but we could ...

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By Robert J. Kerwin As we all well know, COVID-19 is upon us and the World Health Organization has officially declared we are living during a pandemic. Few medical authorities at this point are willing to speculate exactly when the ...

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BY KELSEY MAYO and HANNAH MUNN  The landscape for attorneys has been changing quickly in the wake of COVID-19. Many are seeing an influx of inquiries from clients asking how they can best protect their employees and businesses while living ...

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BY MARC GUSTAFSON Client A has just called and asked if he can request Employee 70, who happens to be 70 years old and firmly within the at-risk group of people for the COVID-19 virus, not to come work for ...

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There are certain books, movies, and songs that are timelier than ever today. There are scenes in both the novel and the movie Jaws, for instance, where Chief Brody is imploring a skeptical Mayor Vaughan to close down the beaches ...

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  Liquidated damages under North Carolina’s Wage and Hour Act should be awarded based upon the employee’s gross, rather than net, pay, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression, upholding a Mecklenburg County ...

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By Katherine Kayatta In the last couple of weeks, nearly all in-person meetings have come to a grinding halt as the world hunkers down during the COVID-19 pandemic. Litigators, whose practices frequently require in-person contact at depositions, mediations and court ...

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BY ERIC SPENGLER The COVID-19 pandemic has wrecked small businesses across North Carolina and, indeed, the world. Since declaring a state of emergency on March 10, Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a series of escalating executive orders aimed at “flattening ...

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Picture this: a bottle of beer all alone in the corner of a fridge, scaring away the rest of the food items, all of which are wearing surgical masks. The beer was a Corona, and this image was perhaps the first ...

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BY JOSH VAN KAMPEN and LANA TIGRI North Carolina has always offered weak stew when it came to statutory employment law protections. Lacking a state non-discrimination statute and enforcement agency, North Carolina residents have been forced to rely primarily on ...

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