North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina isn’t doing enough to ensure public school students can obtain a sound basic education, a state judge has ruled, agreeing with the findings of an outside consultant. Superior Court Judge David Lee signed an order ...

The North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center is collecting information from North Carolina attorneys about pro bono legal services provided in 2019. The effort is an annual voluntary process that lets attorneys share information about activities encouraged by the state’s ...

HILLSBOROUGH (AP) — A North Carolina county has removed a portrait of a 19th-century state Supreme Court justice from a courtroom at the request of a judge who said it didn’t belong there because of the justice’s racism. Senior Resident ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s voter photo identification mandate already may be blocked for the upcoming March primary by a federal judge, but others are still trying to fight the ID requirement in state courts. Lawyers for five voters who ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The state of North Carolina must pay over $102,000 to the winning side in a recent legislative redistricting case and the outside expert who helped analyze redrawn district lines, state judges have ruled. A three-judge panel directed ...

Lindsey D. Granados will be joining The Law Offices of Wiley Nickel in Cary as a senior criminal defense associate beginning Feb. 3. Jordan Bernstein has joined Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in its Charlotte office as an associate attorney. Bernstein ...

Edward A. Pone has been tapped as the new chief district court judge for Judicial District 12, which covers Cumberland County. Pone will succeed current Chief District Court Judge Robert Stiehl upon his retirement. North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice ...

A national civil rights organization filed an appeal Tuesday on behalf of University of North Carolina students who want to intervene in a settlement that gives $2.5 million and a Civil War commemorative statue to a Confederate heritage group. The ...

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The North Carolina General Assembly is back briefly in Raleigh in early 2020 with Republicans and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper facing the same impasse they had for most of 2019. The legislature prepared to gavel in at midday Tuesday for ...

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Attorneys for a North Carolina man serving life in prison for a 1976 rape that he denies committing are vowing to continue their appeals effort after a federal court panel ruled against him. In a 2-1 ruling Wednesday, a three-judge ...

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