North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Police in North Carolina say a middle school student who poked other students with a small needle that diabetes patients use to prick their fingers has been charged. Ayden police tell news outlets a sixth grader was charged with five ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eighty-five-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the court and is in the hospital, the court said Thursday. The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening, the court ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and fellow Democrats gained influence Tuesday at the currently Republican-dominated legislature for the next two years, breaking the GOP’s veto-proof majority in the House and making inroads in the Senate. Democrats gained at least eight ...

Alice Neece Mine, the long-time assistant executive director of the North Carolina State Bar, has been installed as the agency’s secretary/treasurer, succeeding Tom Lunsford, who had held the post since 1992. Mine was sworn in by North Carolina Supreme Court ...

Just a few short months after walking 2,190 miles on a footpath from Georgia to Maine, Bruce Matson is back in the office in a high-rise in Richmond, Virginia, handling bankruptcy cases for LeClairRyan, where he’s a partner. He said ...

More redrawing of North Carolina legislative boundaries would be required next year if Friday’s ruling by state judges striking down four state House districts stands. A three-judge panel Friday agreed with advocacy groups and voters that several alterations to Wake ...

Burr & Forman, a Southeast regional law firm, announced Nov. 1 that is acquiring McNair Law Firm, which has offices throughout South Carolina and in Charlotte. McNair has 84 attorneys. In all, Burr & Forman will now employ 360 people ...

Police in North Carolina say they can’t find the white woman recorded threatening her black neighbors while they waited for AAA. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police tell news outlets they attempted to serve a warrant Tuesday on 51-year-old Susan Westwood for misusing 911. ...

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The world’s largest pork producer says it plans to install covers over pig waste lagoons at most of its North Carolina hog farms. WRAL-TV reports Smithfield Foods also says in a Thursday statement it would install new “low trajectory” tools ...

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A federal appeals court panel says a trial judge went too far with a gag order that forbid lawyers or virtually anyone with knowledge of conditions at North Carolina hog operations from sharing information with reporters or on social media. ...

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