North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com Milwaukee-based Michael Best has acquired North Carolina law firm Forrest Firm, adding 23 lawyers and 13 professionals that will expand the Michael Best’s presence in the state.  In addition to Michael Best’s established Raleigh office, the ...

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By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com Durham, North Carolina attorney Tiffany Dawn Russell was sentenced to 63 months recently for her role in an extensive multi-year fraud conspiracy and was sentenced to 36 months for filing a false tax return. These sentences ...

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by Special to The Daily Record  BridgeTower Media Newswires ROCHESTER, NY — Since Dec. 18, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has accepted two new types of ex parte proceedings to be filed for trademark purposes: expungement and reexamination. When ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A local government attorney has joined the North Carolina House. Allen Buansi of Orange County is now a state representative after being picked by Orange County Democratic activists. He’s filling the remainder of the term won ...

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The families of four people — including three teens — who died in a February plane crash off the North Carolina coast are suing the companies that owned the plane and employed the pilot, who also died. The suit claims ...

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Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse. An attorney for the SBC’s ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina advocacy groups and voters who this year persuaded state courts to overturn the legislature’s congressional redistricting plan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to avoid hearing arguments on whether such courts must be ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mother of a North Carolina college student who was killed while riding with a state trooper as part of an internship has filed a wrongful death claim against the N.C. State Highway Patrol, the state ...

Former Mecklenburg County public defender Toussaint Romain has been named the new CEO for the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, an agency that provides legal representation to those who are unable to afford it.   Romain, the center’s first leader of ...

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Megan McGee Stacy and Laura Gregory have joined Hall Booth Smith in Charlotte. Stacy is Of Counsel and focuses her practice on commercial contracts and business torts, construction, general liability, medical malpractice, premises liability, products liability, professional liability, and transportation ...

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