North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY SAAD GUL AND MIKE SLIPSKY U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher J. Burke of the District of Delaware recently held that “click fraud” violates the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). “Click fraud” refers to a phenomenon when an online ...

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BY GARY PARSONS I have spent my 43-year legal career in the courtroom as a litigator, including participating in more than 75 trials and 125 appeals. During this time, I have seen the science and psychology of trials evolve. In ...

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BY JUSTINE KELLY Privilege logs are often considered back-burner items in complex litigation and not addressed until discovery deadlines draw near. However, paying attention to privilege logs early on can be a hidden factor in a successful litigation effort, helping ...

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By Joseph D. Steinfield BridgeTower Media Newswires If you Google the words “leadership qualities” you will find no shortage of entries. Rather than open those links and write about what others have to say, I decided to offer observations based ...

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  According to a study by Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of human behavior every day. That means roughly half of people’s daily activities are performed almost the same ways each and every day.  Our lives consist ...

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BY CARMA HENSON North Carolinians who suffer harm while seeking health care during the COVID-19 pandemic will have limited recourse to be made whole by the legal system, thanks to language included in the COVID-19 bill passed by the General ...

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BY MEGAN PAQUIN Earlier this year, when crisis management was declared one of the top practice areas for 2020, no one would have predicted that law firms would be facing an existential crisis of their own. The COVID-19 crisis has ...

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It is hard to believe that our lives have been altered so dramatically and so quickly. As this year began, who had even heard of the coronavirus or COVID-19? Since then everything seems to have changed. Schools and businesses were ...

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Based on recent activity from the appellate courts, there seems to be renewed interest in the vagaries of Rule 9(j). On April 21, the Court of Appeals issued its decision in Robinson v. Halifax Regional Medical Center. It has several ...

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BY SAAD GUL and MIKE SLIPSKY The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in its first Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) case, Van Buren v. United States. CFAA is the federal anti-hacking law that the criminal defense and civil ...

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