Legal Aid of North Carolina will celebrate its 20th anniversary and the opening of its new Charlotte office on May 19 from 5-7 p.m. at 5525 Albemarle Rd., Suite 100. The agency first opened its doors on July 1, 2002, ...
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Read More »HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina city is suing three companies over the collapse of decorative, 40-ton wooden arches along a pedestrian walkway in February. The lawsuit was filed by the city of Hickory in Catawba County Superior Court ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina judge on Tuesday cut the amount of money needed to comply through the middle of next year with a step-by-step plan to address state educational inequities. But he declined to leave in place the ...
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Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals panel on Tuesday delayed further a lower court ruling that had ordered election officials to immediately allow felony offenders still on probation or parole the ability to vote. But the majority on ...
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Read More »Damian C. Georgino has joined Womble Bond Dickinson in the firm’s corporate and securities group as a partner in its Charlotte office. He advises in complex transactions involving water and wastewater, energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, and natural resource projects. ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to give a judge another week to work through the latest step in a long-running legal fight over public education spending. The court’s justices granted Special Superior Court Judge Michael ...
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Read More »It’s hard to leave a job that has meant so much to me, but these things happen sometimes, and so this will be my final issue as the editor-in-chief of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly. I’ve worked for this newspaper for ...
Read More »The following lawyers have met all of the certification requirements and were certified as specialists in their respective practice areas by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization on March 2-3, according to the board’s website. Bankruptcy Law ...
Read More »ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Officials in a North Carolina city have settled a federal discrimination lawsuit with a former female firefighter who said she had endured a hostile work environment in which the fire chief and others inflicted emotional distress. ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has temporarily blocked the enforcement of last week’s ruling by trial judges that declared people convicted of felonies can vote while serving their probation or parole. The Court of Appeals on Tuesday ...
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