North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Sidebar is always gently reminding his reporters to be thoughtful in choosing whether to use the active or passive voice in a story. There’s a time to write “a spy planted the bug in the office” (active), and a time ...

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The 33-foot Winnebago Vista was hard to miss when Sidebar rolled into the parking lot of a shopping center in northeast Raleigh—which, for the law firm that operates out of it, is sort of the point. The new firm, Osborn ...

The 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was tipping off just as Lawyers Weekly went to press, so Sidebar won’t embarrass itself by publishing its picks for the Final Four, but March is also the time of year for ...

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“Radical transparency” is a hot new trend in tech and political circles, but a Guilford County District Court judge has—perhaps—provided some fairly radical transparency about why he’s just been suspended from the bench. Guilford County District Judge Mark Cummings was ...

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Appellate judges are often called upon to review cases in which a person’s freedom, or livelihood, or constitutional rights may hang in the balance. And then there’s also this stuff: The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently handed down an ...

Sidebar hit the streets of downtown Raleigh on a gorgeous afternoon earlier this month to experience firsthand what might be the coolest contraption any law school in the county has in its toy chest—a giant orange bicycle, seating seven in ...

Tagged with: Campbell Law

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 ...

Tagged with: Gov. Roy Cooper

The phrase “shocking announcement” gets bandied about pretty casually, but North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin’s Jan. 25 announcement that he would resign his seat to become the new dean of Regent University School of Law really was ...

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North Carolina has been an innovator in aviation ever since the Wright Brothers took off from Kill Devil Hills (not Kitty Hawk, as is commonly misremembered). Now the state is in the vanguard of flying’s next frontier: unmanned aerial vehicles, ...

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It feels like hardly a week goes by without some operative who worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign getting indicted or pleading guilty to some sort of felony, but the Trump team scored a rare bit of legal ...

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