North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

North Carolina Central University’s School of Law may be one of the best kept secrets around. According to Vault, Inc., a publishing firm that researches and collects data on diverse professions, the law school has not received proper acknowledgment. Vault ...

North Carolina’s oldest law firm, Craige Brawley Liipfert & Walker LLP, is pleased to announce its 175th anniversary. The firm, founded in 1832 in Salisbury by four-term U.S. Rep. Burton Craige, initially specialized in representing railroads in the years prior ...

The Wake County Bar Association and the 10th Judicial District Bar will receive the E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award at the American Bar Association meeting in San Francisco on Aug. 10. The award recognizes projects that enhance professionalism among lawyers. ...

Four lawyers have joined Smith Moore’s Wilmington office: David Barefoot, Frank Martin and David Martin, who were formerly with Manning Fulton & Skinner’s Wilmington location, and Jill Raspet from Schell Bray Aycock Abel & Livingston in Greensboro. All practice in ...

Margaret R. Westbrook has been named head of Kennedy Covington’s campaign finance, political committees and ethics practice. In the firm’s Raleigh office since 1998, she has represented national financial institutions, corporations, associations, candidates and health care organizations on campaign finance ...

More than $54,000 was contributed by 154 Kennedy Covington attorneys to Legal Services of Southern Piedmont’s annual Access for Justice Campaign. The funds will be used to support Legal Aid of North Carolina and Legal Services for the Elderly, in ...

Crumley & Associates has awarded a $1,000 non-renewable scholarship and laptop computers to the 10 winners of the second annual statewide Crib to College Scholarship and Next Step Scholarship competitions, a release says. Crib to College Scholarship applicants are required ...

Elizabeth A. Stallings, a State Bar-certified paralegal at McGuire, Wood & Bissette in Asheville, has been appointed District VII director of the North Carolina Paralegal Association, Inc. A paralegal for 13 years, Stallings has been a litigation paralegal with the ...

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, won the 2007 Pro Bono Publico Award given by the Louisiana State Bar Association for assisting Hurricane Katrina victims in their time of need. The firm received one of six pro bono awards given ...

Michael W. Clark has joined the Winston-Salem firm of Comerford & Britt, and John Kenneth Moser has gone on board there as an associate. Bryan L. Skelton has joined Hutchison Law Group in Raleigh, where he will focus on patent ...