North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY KIRK TESKA It’s that time of year again. Without further ado, following are the top 10 IP cases of 2019: Tom Terrific A U.S. Trademark Office examiner was on her game when Tom Brady applied to register “Tom Terrific” ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property

Whether 2019 was the best year of your life, or you couldn’t wait for it to be over, there’s a sense of having a fresh start on Jan. 1 that we all hold on to. The new year is a ...

Tagged with: Resolutions

By Susan Letterman White BridgeTower Media Newswires I recently read that one-third of lawyers in firms of at least 50 attorneys were pessimistic about adapting to the challenges and changes facing them. Many problems lawyers face involve generating sufficient revenue ...

Tagged with: Innovation

By Melissa Azallion and Jonathan Eggert With the current administration’s strict enforcement of immigration regulations, an understanding of the various work visa options and requirements is vital to plan successful business immigration strategies. Importantly, strict enforcement does not mean visa ...

Tagged with: immigration

By Marshall H. Tanick BridgeTower Media Newswires “Judges are like umpires … (They) don’t make the rules, they apply them.” John Roberts at his confirmation hearing (Sept. 12, 2005) Following the retirement last year of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, ...

Tagged with: U.S.Supreme Court

Paper or plastic? Skirt or pants? Credit or debit?  The list of daily decisions we make goes on. It’s estimated that the average adult makes about 35,000 decisions each day. 226.7 of those decisions are made on food alone. Some of ...

By Gordon P. Katz A dispute has arisen that cannot be settled. You turn to the parties’ contract and discover that all disputes are to be resolved by arbitration. You next file on behalf of your client a demand for ...

By Joseph J. Floyd and Marni J. Kaufman The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently entered into a cease-and-desist order with Juniper Networks, Inc., related to violations of the internal controls and recordkeeping provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ...

Tagged with: SEC

By Mark McGrath In 2011 the General Assembly enacted sweeping tort reform legislation that changed the way medical malpractice cases are litigated in North Carolina, amending Rule 9(j) of the Rules of Civil Procedure to require pre-suit review of “all ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

By Saad Gul Poyner Spruill LLP Self-driving vehicles give a whole new meaning to the term “backseat driver.” Self-driving vehicles, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), permit passengers to get from one point to another with no human driver in control of ...

Tagged with: self-driving cars