North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley has issued a new order further extending the postponement of court proceedings, the North Carolina Judicial Branch announced on April 2. The new order contains seven emergency directives. It postpones court proceedings ...

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A gunman exchanged fire with officers outside a North Carolina courthouse on Tuesday before authorities shot and killed him, a sheriff said. A deputy responding to the scene in the city of Asheville was hurt but expected to survive, said ...

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The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued an order extending all appellate court deadlines that fall between March 27 and April 30. The March 27 order extends these deadlines for 60 days and also encourages electronic filing and credits back ...

Smith Anderson in Raleigh announced the addition of 12 new attorneys in 2019, 11 of whom are associates in the early stages of their careers. Jenny Bobbitt focuses her practice on employment law; Ashton Carpenter, David Ortiz and Ed Roche ...

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Almost every other intra-collegiate competition has been cancelled this spring, but one March tradition has endured, with U.S. News & World Report releasing the 2021 installment of its annual Best Law School Rankings. The University of North Carolina School of ...

North Carolina’s deputy solicitor general, Ryan Park, will become the state’s new solicitor general after current solicitor general Matt Sawchak leaves the position on March 31, the North Carolina Department of Justice has announced. Sawchak has served as solicitor general ...

North Carolina’s capital county on Thursday added another 1.1 million state residents to those now or soon under stay-at-home orders to dampen the coronavirus spread, which state officials say has contributed to another death. Elected leaders of Raleigh, Cary and ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a request by Republican lawmakers for its full cadre of judges to rehear a challenge over implementing voter photo identification. The Court of Appeals denied the motion by the ...

The North Carolina Business Court has extended deadlines in all of its pending cases in accordance with Chief Justice Cheri Beasley’s order extending filing deadlines for county court documents through April 17 due to COVID-19. The March 23 order, signed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sided unanimously with the state of North Carolina in its copyright battle with a company that has documented the salvage of the pirate Blackbeard’s ship off the state’s coast. Justice Elena Kagan wrote ...