North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — Coming off a narrow election defeat in 2020, North Carolina’s first Black woman to serve as chief justice on the state Supreme Court will soon enter the 2022 U.S. Senate race, two advisers familiar with her deliberations ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Cheri Beasley

RALEIGH (AP) — House Republicans advanced a measure on Tuesday that requires North Carolina’s governor to obtain formal support from other elected leaders to enforce long-term statewide emergency orders. A state House judiciary committee voted for the legislation, which marks ...

Tagged with: North Carolina Governor

DETROIT (AP) — It’s a question occupying the minds of millions of employees who have worked from home the past year: Will they still be allowed to work remotely — at least some days — once the pandemic has faded? ...

Tagged with: paralegal

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Audra Toussaint knows the Mecklenburg County Courthouse so well she could give tours. But she didn’t come to know the courthouse as a lawyer or a judge or even as a bailiff. She came to know the ...

Tagged with: domestic violence

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed House Bill 196, a wide-ranging COVID relief measure that allows North Carolina notaries to resume video notarizations through at least Dec. 31. Cooper signed the bill on March 11, ten days after a ...

North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby has extended emergency directives in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for another month, the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts said. “The dangers posed by COVID-19 remain serious, and Chief Justice ...

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Frank Hirsch has joined Kaufman & Canoles as a senior attorney to lead the firm’s new Raleigh office, its first office in North Carolina. Hirsch was previously a partner with Alston & Bird in Raleigh. His practice focuses on business ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Republican legislation ordering North Carolina’s sheriffs to note the immigration status of jail inmates and assist federal agents who want to detain them has received state Senate approval. The legislation passed along partisan lines on March 11 ...

Facebook has asked a court to dismiss state and federal antitrust lawsuits that accuse it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors. The social media giant said March 10 that the complaints “do not credibly claim” that its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Merrick Garland on Wednesday to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge in the post as President Joe Biden has vowed to restore the Justice ...

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