North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY COLLEEN BYERS As lawyers, we often meet people at their worst. It’s frequently a crisis that brings them to our door, seeking our guidance and counsel. They entrust their livelihood, their savings account, and their family to our capable ...

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By Jared L. Hubbard and Malgorzata Mrózek In today’s globalized economy, local companies can have a global reach, entering into mergers, acquisitions, manufacturing contracts, licensing agreements, joint ventures, and research and development partnerships with companies and institutions around the world. ...

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BY JACK PRINGLE All attorneys owe various ethical (competency, confidentiality and safeguarding client property) and legal (a host of state and federal laws) obligations to protect information. We’re in an age of great potential technological “upside” (blockchains, artificial intelligence, machine ...

BY KENNETH R. BERMAN Two recent court decisions — one from each coast — show why conventional witness preparation needs a warning label: Use at your own risk.  The first one, the Qualcomm case, shows how conventional approaches to witness ...

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By Susan Letterman White As lawyers, we place great importance on being rational and logical. We pride ourselves on keeping our emotions under control. However, as business leaders, when we present rational arguments to persuade a person or group to ...

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BY STEVEN CORRIVEAU The dual purpose of the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act, as stated by our Supreme Court, is to provide a “swift and certain remedy to an injured worker” and to “ensure a limited and determinate liability for ...

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BY JOHN GILLERAN Although “smart contracts” have been the subject of much discussion in the information technology field, the impact that they will have on the legal profession is not well known, in part because the capabilities of such contracts ...

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Today’s corporate counsel must be much more than a good lawyer. More and more, that role calls for skills in project management and administration as well as the key element of protecting the organization from risk. That’s part of the ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued policy guidance in its Policy Manual, which states that violating a federal controlled substance law, including marijuana use, remains a conditional bar to establishing good moral character for naturalization purposes, regardless ...

With more and more people working remotely, a common question that clients asked this past tax season was whether they are eligible to take the home office deduction. This is also referred to as business use of home. The qualifying ...