North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

Tagged with: Donald Trump

People come before the North Carolina Supreme Court from all walks of life, but in one decision handed down by the court Dec. 7, it was as if the defendant had wandered into the court after having just emerged, fully ...

Tagged with: Court of Appeals

Tired: Pontificating about how the legal profession will possibly cope with the scourge of Millennial lawyers. Inspired: Pontificating about how the legal profession will possibly cope with the scourge of “Generation Z” lawyers. Yes, the days of people complaining about ...

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Festivus, and its associated Airing of Grievances, isn’t until Dec. 23 this year, but some judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals have got a lot of problems with people, and now you’re going to hear about it. Two ...

Tagged with: Phil Berger

The whole point of a court of appeal is to disabuse trial judges who’ve somehow misapplied the law, and on occasion exasperated appellate judges have been known to issue their rebukes in particularly pointed language. But an opinion this month ...

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As campaign messages go, it was not the closing pitch that Sidebar would have expected, but it was perhaps the one that partisan judicial elections made inevitable. Justice Barbara Jackson had the misfortune to be running against the partisan tide ...

Sidebar loves to keep up with the latest news, but doesn’t like having to get dressed up for work like a grown-up, so he was delighted to learn that attorneys can now follow the goings-on at the North Carolina State ...

Although voters elect our state judges here in North Carolina, federal judges get their seats via old-fashioned appointment, and just as the state’s elections are getting underway the U.S. Senate is also moving closer to filling a vacancy on the ...

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Just as every attorney should take a little time now and then to unplug and unwind, Sidebar feels recharged and refreshed after taking a few weeks of sabbatical to commune with nature. (Sidebar even managed to show up on time ...

A massive Wilmington drug bust in which New Hanover County Sheriff’s detectives seized what appeared to be 13 pounds of fentanyl just took a bitter turn. Private lab tests recently showed that an alleged $2 million worth of fentanyl that ...

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