North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper’s real estate company has promised to pay more $82 million to creditors over an abandoned practice facility project in Rock Hill under a new plan proposed Thursday.  The plan would ...

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Operating on a 90-day delay, the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Aug. 1 began disclosing the identity and votes of judges who rule on petitions filed with the court, according to a July 29 news release. The court will ...

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Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Mindi L. Schulze and Kelly A. Brewer to the firm’s Raleigh office. Schulze joins the Health Care, Professional Liability, and Construction practice groups. Brewer joins the Health Care, Employment, Commercial Litigation, and Insurance practice groups.  ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected]  Legal Aid of North Carolina has announced legal services attorney and longtime volunteer Ashley Campbell as its new CEO, according to a news release.  Campbell has begun the transition process with George Hausen, the organization’s leader ...

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Womble Bond Dickinson Attorney Brittany Teague normally spends her days helping corporate clients buy, sell and finance their commercial real estate. But on a recent June afternoon, she and 59 other attorneys and paralegals from Truist and Womble Bond Dickinson ...

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Charlotte firm adds partner  Charles R. “Trey” Rayburn III has joined McGuireWoods’ Restructuring & Insolvency Department as a partner in Charlotte, North Carolina, bringing 17 years of experience advising leading financial institutions in workout transactions and large corporate bankruptcies, a ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected]  Clayton D. Morgan of Raleigh was installed as the 128th president of the North Carolina Bar Association on  June 24 at the NCBA Annual Meeting in Winston-Salem, an NCBA news release stated. He will also serve ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court will accelerate appeals over the constitutionality of a state law that gave adults with child sexual abuse claims another two years to seek civil damages. A majority of justices agreed this week ...

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By JOSH SHAFFER, The News & Observer Six years ago, the state’s Realtors association paid $1.5 million for one of Raleigh’s grandest old houses — a Second Empire beauty on Blount Street, practically next-door to all the legislative action. It ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Colonial Pipeline has agreed to a consent order which says it should be held accountable for a gasoline spill in a North Carolina nature preserve that was found to be far worse than what the company ...

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