North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Whereas, The Board of Law Examiners of the State of North Carolina is required by statute to make such investigations as may be deemed necessary to satisfy it that applicants for admission to the North Carolina Bar possess the ...

Winston-Salem attorney R. Michael Leonard received the North Carolina Award for public service, the state’s highest civilian honor, earlier this month. Leonard practices with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. Hikers and picnickers at Grandfather Mountain and Chimney Rock state parks ...

The University of North Carolina School of Law honored four alumni at the school’s annual Carolina Law Alumni Gala and Banquet at the Carolina Inn on Oct. 8. The Distinguished Alumni Award was presented to three alumni: John B. McMillan, ...

After a decade of service on the Commission on Indigent Defense Services, Joseph B. Cheshire V and Mary Ann Tally attended their last meeting as commissioners on Sept. 24. Cheshire and Tally are both founding members of the IDS Commission. ...

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Wilmington attorney Franklin E. Martin of Smith Moore Leatherwood has been selected by the North Carolina Bar Association to serve on the Access to Justice Leadership Council. The council assists the NCBA in increasing the level of financial support by ...

For a second consecutive year, InformationWeek magazine has ranked K&L Gates among the top 250 companies in its annual listing of the country’s most innovative users of business technology. The award honors the firm for its enterprise data warehouse system, ...

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Greensboro family lawyer Carolyn J. Woodruff competed in the United States Dancesport Championship earlier this month with Alosha Anatoliy in gold-level American Smooth Ballroom Dance. The pair won six gold medals; four silver and two bronze medals in open gold ...

On Sept. 1 at the Henderson Country Club in Henderson, the 9th Judicial District Bar held the Judicial District Bar Professionalism Program entitled “Professionalism in Practice: A Local Perspective.” It was sponsored by the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism and ...

Greensboro lawyer John O’Neal has been elected to a two-year term as chair of the Consumer Areas of Practice Section of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice. The section is devoted to the representation of North Carolina consumers in areas ...

Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law Robert K. Walsh of the Wake Forest University School of Law received the Robert J. Kutak Award at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Each year, the ABA Section of Legal Education ...