North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

James S. Schenck of Conner Gwyn Schenck PLLC in Raleigh has been appointed to the governing committee of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, a national association of construction lawyers…. Mary Beach Shuping and Wallace “Tripp Carpenter III have ...

Raleigh lawyer E. William Kratt, a board-certified specialist in estate planning and probate law, has been elected to membership in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. The college is a professional association of 2,700 lawyers from throughout the ...

A new Web tool that will enable lawyers to substantially increase their volunteer assistance to low-income North Carolinians has been launched at www.probono.net/NC. The Web site was developed by Legal Aid of North Carolina in partnership with the North Carolina ...

Nick Ellis, a litigator in the Rocky Mount office of Poyner & Spruill LLP, has been voted in as a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel. The Chicago-based IADC is a not-for-profit organization that maintains a peer-reviewed, invitation-only ...

Firm To Be Anchor Tenant For Project Near RBC Center

The following lawyers have been certified as specialists by the Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization. Bankruptcy Law: Gene B. Tarr – Business. Criminal Law: Janna D. Allison – State; George B. Collins Jr. – State; J. Frank Lay – State; ...

Sixteen North Carolina lawyers and one trial judge were members of the 87-member Selma Cyclepaths cycling team in the 18th annual MS 150 Bike Tour on Sept. 9-10. For the second consecutive year, the Cyclepaths were the tour’s top fund-raising ...

John P. Marshall of White & Allen in Kinston was selected to serve on the board of directors of the Foundation of Renewal of Eastern North Carolina (FoR ENC). Formerly a shareholder in White & Allen, he re-joined the firm ...

Judge Rose Vaughn Williams of Goldsboro will join Insurance Commissioner Jim Long’s staff as legislative counsel. Most recently, she served as a District Court judge in the eighth Judicial District of Wayne, Lenoir and Greene Counties. She will step down ...

The labor and employment law firm of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak, & Stewart, P.C. has added two attorneys to its Charlotte office. G. Scott Humphrey and H. Bernard Tisdale III have joined the group as shareholders, according to a firm ...