North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Knox, Brotherton, Knox & Godfrey held a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of its new office in Denver, with representatives of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, local officials, clients and friends in attendance. Founded in Charlotte by ...

Meghan Mary Poirier, one of five students in Wake Forest law school’s appellate clinic, graduated on May 21. Two days later she was before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, where she successfully argued the case of Mooney v. U.S.. ...

Charlotte lawyer E. Osborne “Ozzie” Ayscue Jr. was presented the N.C. Bar Association’s inaugural H. Brent McKnight Renaissance Lawyer Award by Winston-Salem attorneys William F. Womble Jr. and Erna Womble at the association’s annual meeting in Asheville. The Wombles were ...

Two Raleigh lawyers have been appointed to NCBA posts: Deborah Hildebran-Bachofen to the international law & practice section council and Sandra M. Clark to the estate planning & fiduciary law section council. Both practice at Manning Fulton & Skinner. Hildebran-Bachofen, ...

RALEIGH — When former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong mailed in his law license last week, he also included a note bemoaning “the fundamental unfairness” of the North Carolina State Bar’s handling of his ethics case. Nifong was disbarred for ...

Smith Anderson partners Caryn McNeill and Martin Brinkley will co-chair the “4All” task force, an initiative of the N.C. Bar Association and the N.C. Bar Foundation that will address systemic problems relating to the provision of legal services to poor ...

Kennedy Covington recently pledged $750,000 to the Campaign for Cultural Facilities in a drive directed by the Arts & Science Council to raise $83 million to support new and renovated cultural facilities and the Charlotte Symphony endowment. The campaign supports ...

Shannon “Missy” Sumerell Spainhour has joined Kennedy Covington’s Charlotte office, where she will focus on employment law. Previously the Wake Forest law graduate handled matters before administrative agencies and litigated in state and federal courts at another Charlotte firm. She ...

Hutchison Law Group PLLC has announced the completion of its annual survey of the compensation practices at venture-backed information technology and life science companies in North Carolina. A total of 23 companies participated in the survey. All participants are located ...

International law firm King & Spalding is opening an office in Charlotte that will be the firm’s third new office in the last year and its eighth worldwide location, a release says. The firm is immediately bringing on board four ...