North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  To try a case effectively, you need to have a theory of the case, and you need to develop themes to help persuade the jury. Although they are both important, they are not the same thing, and both need ...

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Politics is the only job in the world where, if you get passed over for a job you wanted, it’s considered socially acceptable to log onto Twitter and blast the person who made the hiring decision. (That’s definitely not how ...

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 The arrest of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in North Carolina last week has prompted two Latino advocacy groups to establish a legal fund. The News & Observer reports Durham’s El Hispano Centro and Siler City’s The Hispanic Liaison announced Monday that they’ve ...

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North Carolina taxpayers are paying three former inmates at one of the state’s most dangerous prisons $62,500 to settle lawsuits claiming the former warden and supervisors wouldn’t clamp down on murderous gangs who terrorized them. They were among five inmates ...

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A state criminal justice panel is urging more police training, building vulnerability assessments and school violence data to help make North Carolina’s K-12 schools safer. A special committee within the Governor’s Crime Commission released its report Thursday, with more than ...

Judge Marion Warren is resigning as director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts effective Feb. 28 to become senior associate dean of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the AOC announced Feb. 6. Warren ...

A number of black lawmakers in South Carolina briefly walked out of judicial elections Wednesday after the Legislature elected a white attorney who has never been a judge to the state Court of Appeals over an African-American woman who has ...

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BY BRIAN J. CARNEY BridgeTower Media Newswires Every aspect of trial preparation is important. But just because you spend time preparing a witness, don’t assume the witness will succeed when called to testify. How can a trial lawyer ensure that ...

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BY MICHAEL R. STANLEY BridgeTower Media Newswires The U.S. Supreme Court continued to shape the contours of the Federal Arbitration Act, handing down two decisions on the topic in January. First, in Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer & White Sales Inc., ...

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Since the start of 2017, The Associated Press has tallied at least 90 state lawmakers who have faced public allegations or repercussions over sexual misconduct claims. Most of those cases became public since the #MeToo movement gained momentum in October ...

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