North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of its original homes as the justices continue to mark the court’s bicentennial by meeting in various locations. The court will hold a session May 29 in the North ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The creation of the next North Carolina state government budget should advance this week as Senate Republicans unveil and vote for their proposal. Senate GOP leaders planned to provide details on their two-year budget at a May 28 ...

Brian Elston Law in Asheville has announced that Chad Ray Donnahoo and Reed G. Williams have joined the firm. Donnahoo’s focus will be representing individuals in workers’ compensation and personal injury matters. Williams will continue his mediation practice of personal ...

If you took a bar exam prep course while studying to pass the bar, it’s very likely you took a course offered by Barbri, the company that has long dominated the market for would-be lawyers. But the company is now ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s prisons are on a hiring push, but they’re losing workers almost as fast as new ones are hired because of forced overtime resulting from low staffing levels. WNCN reports a top leader in the state’s ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Two of North Carolina’s most powerful legislators took the witness stand this week in a long-running federal employee discrimination case filed by the former head of the General Assembly’s nonpartisan fiscal analysis office. House Speaker Tim Moore ...

RALEIGH (AP) — Small breweries in North Carolina could soon be toasting a new law that would give growing beer-makers in the state more time to sell their products on their own without third-party distributors. By a 38-3 vote, the ...

RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it wants to be able to enforce an expected settlement in a federal lawsuit in North Carolina accusing neighboring research universities of conspiring to depress wages for medical professionals. The Justice Department said in ...

GREENVILLE (AP) — An attorney for a North Carolina man serving a life sentence for murder says false testimony sent her client to prison. News outlets report attorney and Duke University law professor Theresa Newman made her argument May 17 ...

A federal judge is siding with public health groups suing the Food and Drug Administration to begin reviewing thousands of e-cigarettes on the U.S. market. The ruling handed down Wednesday in district court states that the agency shirked its legal ...

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