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Apr 13, 2020

Basket case: Worker left hanging after laundry-related injury

Remember traveling? Getting dressed for work? Those were the days, but they weren’t without their risks, as Sidebar was reminded while reading a recent North Carolina Court of Appeals decision […]

Jan 16, 2020

Law grad presses on with libel suit against judge, law blog

A recent law school graduate isn’t giving up on his lawsuit alleging the online site Above the Law defamed him in a 2018 story that referred to him as a […]

Dec 19, 2019

N.C. attorneys help rapper win Fyre fight

It’s hard to imagine how the Fyre Festival could have possibly been a bigger disaster. Promoters had hyped it as the experience of a lifetime, a luxurious music festival set […]

Sep 26, 2019

Passive voice was written about

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 […]

Apr 11, 2019

In RV-turned-office, new firm is popping up

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 […]

Mar 21, 2019

If mascots came to moot courts

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 […]

Mar 14, 2019

Guilford judge sounds off, gets sent off

“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 […]

Mar 7, 2019

To all the toys I’ve loved before

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: […]

Feb 20, 2019

At Campbell Law, on a bicycle built for seven

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 […]

Feb 13, 2019

A sidebar tough but fair

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 […]

Jan 31, 2019

Who’ll be North Carolina’s next top justice?

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 […]

Jan 25, 2019

A real legal high-flyer

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 […]