North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Tanisha Palvia, Brooks Pierce  Adjusting to life during a global pandemic, we have found ways to effectively do almost everything remotely—even depositions. Online depositions will likely remain in use long after the pandemic has passed, especially since more attorneys have ...

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The seeds of this article were planted during a discussion about the overwhelming number of meetings via videoconferencing. To be fair, it has been impressive what businesses have done to rapidly pivot during this pandemic. For the remote worker, we’ve ...

By Edward C. Bassett Jr. The right to a jury trial is a central feature of the U.S. Constitution. It is considered a fundamental principle of the American legal system. A jury of your peers is supposed to even the ...

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BY MARC GUSTAFSON “The themes involved in this lawsuit are all too familiar to the Business Court.” It may have been a meaningless line in the introductory remarks to one of hundreds of Business Court opinions, but when my partner ...

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By Shawn Healy In the idyllic view of a trial, one often pictures scenes from classic movies that portray two lawyers in a professional sparring match, each party making an articulate, compelling argument for his side. They both use their ...

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By Mian R. Wang I am an introvert and a perfectionist. I am also a woman and a litigator. I think I am not alone in wearing all these hats. As a young attorney, I spent a lot of time ...

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By Jamie Dean, Mark Henriques, and Brent Powell On Oct. 1, 2020, the Uniform Collaborative Law Act went into effect in North Carolina, making it the 19th state to adopt a version of the act. Under the act, parties may ...

By Angela Colon-Mahoney Humor in the workplace: Is it dead? Or simply deadpan? With professional conferences, networking, and business development now governed by a Zoom screen measured in inches, problematic Wi-Fi, bad lighting, and domestic photobombing, can business humor ever ...

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I’m sure that by now you’ve already seen the infamous video of the Texas attorney who logged onto a virtual hearing with a filter turned on that made him look like a cat. If not, Google it and watch it. ...

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By Courtney Collins and Meagan Donohoe The legal profession’s transition into the online sphere in 2020 was abrupt, disconcerting and sometimes painful, but it is finally official: We continue forward, but (mostly) virtually. Hearings, mediations, arbitrations and—most commonly—depositions have vacated ...

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