North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The law firm newsletter has come of age. Large and small firms alike have seized on specialized newsletters as an inexpensive way to target the narrow client bases that sustain their specialized practice groups. At the state’s largest firms, a ...

A Superior Court judge has rejected the emotional distress claim of a mother who learned of her son’s car accident by telephone and later saw him wheeled into the emergency room. The case is Gardner v. Gardner, (90-CVS-2188; North Carolina ...

The underinsured motorist coverage available to a policy owner’s child is identical to the coverage available to the policy owner, according to an opinion handed down by the North Carolina Court of Appeals last week. This is so, said the ...

Where a restaurant manager knew of potential danger from two intoxicated men but failed to warn other customers or call the police, the store may be sued by a patron injured by one of the men, the North Carolina Court ...

Even though in an equitable distribution action a wife was awarded land she and her husband had owned as tenants by the entireties, she has to split it with a creditor who had a judgment against her husband individually, the ...

Lawyer bashing may be a popular spectator sport but at least one attorney is not taking it anymore. ‘I’ve gotten tired of the negative focus that lawyers sometimes have,’ says Forest J. Bowman, a law professor at the University of ...

A North Carolina worker who says her employer fired her because she was female and of foreign descent may sue for wrongful discharge, a Middle District judge ruled May 23. This is so, the court held, because North Carolina public ...

An Eastern District wrongful discharge suit with facts strikingly similar to Iturbe has resulted in a contrary holding. The Eastern District case is Percell v. International Business Machines Inc. (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. ED0722 – 13 pages). Both Percell ...

In an attempt to spare court jobs, AOC director Franklin Freeman has urged the legislature to eliminate a popular driving program. ‘I have proposed ending the driver safety program as an alternative to making substantial cuts in personnel,’ Freeman said. ...

The May 2 Supreme Court decision that recognized subrogation rights of a subcontractor has sparked debate among members of the real property, contracts, and construction sections of the Bar. While some attorneys view the opinion as a correct, literal interpretation ...