North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The North Carolina Supreme Court and North Carolina Court of Appeals will start using universal citations for opinions and publications starting Jan. 1. The state’s judicial branch published a statement reminding lawyers of the pending change on Nov. 19. The ...

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All court sessions in Vance County have been cancelled from through the Thanksgiving holiday due to COVID-19. On Nov. 18, the court sessions for the remainder of that week were cancelled out of “abundance of caution.” On Nov. 20, the ...

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Paul Gessner has joined Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in the firm’s Raleigh office as of counsel and will join its municipalities and public entities practice group and employment law practice group. Gessner previously served as a superior court judge, a ...

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For the second time this week, a North Carolina courthouse is halting operations because of COVID-19. All sessions of court in Vance County have been cancelled through Friday, Nov. 20, the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts said. The ...

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COVID-19 has prompted the Wake County Judicial Branch to close five district civil courtrooms until further notice. The judicial branch said in a Nov. 17 memo that four domestic civil courtrooms and one general civil courtroom are closed at the ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — One man was killed and two more were wounded in a shootout near a North Carolina courthouse that was placed on lockdown as a result, police said. Greensboro police said in a news release that Avion ...

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The extremely close race for North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice will have a recount, as incumbent Cheri Beasley on Tuesday formally asked for one while challenger Paul Newby holds ...

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A second experimental COVID-19 vaccine — this one from Moderna Inc. — yielded extraordinarily strong early results Monday, another badly needed dose of hope as the pandemic enters a terrible new phase. Moderna said its vaccine appears to be 94.5% ...

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The North Carolina State Bar’s CLE Board has proposed a new mandatory CLE requirement for all lawyers in the area of Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias training. The State Bar Council voted to publish the proposal for comment during ...

A coalition of racial justice groups is suing Gaston County and its board of commissioners to have a Confederate monument removed from the main entrance of the county’s courthouse, arguing that the monument’s presence violates the state’s constitution—a suit that ...