North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Troy Shelton  There’s no shortage of debate, among lawyers at least, about whether to continue electing judges. But no less important is what judicial elections mean for the nature of judging.    In North Carolina, we’ve been electing our judges ...

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By David Dubberly Nexsen Pruet  On Sept. 1, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a news release claiming that a financial services employer “violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act” (SOX) by ...

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By Bill Nettles and Gary Jackson  As powerful and advanced as tech companies are, they, like other organizations, can be laid low by a particular nemesis: the good old-fashioned whistleblower.    Indeed, a thoughtful, well-prepared whistleblower – as former Twitter security ...

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By Ken Bresler  Just in time for the U.S. Supreme Court to launch its new term, here are my observations about the court’s legal writing in its flurry of end-of-term cases about abortion, guns and administrative law.  The decision about ...

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By Charles Burnham and Harvey A. Silverglate  As attorneys involved in representing people accused of committing crimes, naturally we are both acutely aware of several provisions of the U.S. Constitution.   The Fifth Amendment provides that no person “shall be compelled ...

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Nearly two and one-half years after COVID-19 first sent people home to work, many of us continue to work from home in some form or fashion. It’s clear that there has been a permanent shift in how many of us ...

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By Jenna K. Godlewski and Alice V. Harris, Nexsen Pruet  The current extension of the federal public health emergency declared as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (“PHE”) will expire on Oct. 15, 2022. As the need wanes for the ...

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By Lisa P. Sumner  The automatic stay triggered by a bankruptcy filing may protect the debtor’s residence even if the debtor does not own the property, according to a recent decision from a New York-based federal appeals court.  In a ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected]  I’ve experienced both sides of the sizzling real estate market over the past couple of months as a seller and now, a buyer.  But I guess I should introduce myself first, right, before you hear my ...

Tagged with: Power list real estate

Lawyers get pulled into meetings issues all the time, whether for clients or personally. Think of the types of meetings that attorneys advise—nonprofit associations, shareholder meetings, governmental bodies, homeowner and condominium associations, houses of worship, unions. Mishandling how decisions are ...

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