North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Justin Burr, a state representative who championed a series of efforts to aggressively overhaul the state’s judiciary, will not return to the General Assembly next year. His re-election campaign ended May 8 with a decisive loss to a political newcomer ...

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When Larry Moneta, Duke University’s vice president for student affairs, visited a campus coffee shop and ordered a hot tea and a vegan muffin, he didn’t expect to get served with a side of explicit rap lyrics. Hearing some raw ...

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Putting your offices on the penthouse floor of a high-rise tower is a clear signal that your business is riding high figuratively as well as literally. But a new study suggests that while such heights might give you commanding views ...

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A judge in Brunswick County has dismissed animal cruelty charges against a woman accused of hoarding ducks, because the state’s expert veterinarians were no-shows in court. But Cynthia Huber’s not in the clear yet — the local sheriff’s office has ...

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We don’t intend to keep beating a dead horse. Or to kick a law school while it’s defunct. Or to imply that it didn’t produce some outstanding graduates and attorneys. But nearly nine months after the Charlotte School of Law ...

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Sidebar didn’t think this really still needed to be said in 2018, but apparently it does: If you are not actually African-American, do not ever claim, for absolutely any reason at all, to be a “member of the African-American community.” ...

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We don’t intend to keep beating a dead horse. Or to kick a law school while it’s defunct. Or to imply that it didn’t produce some outstanding graduates and attorneys. But nearly nine months after the Charlotte School of Law ...

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Sidebar ponders what Blackbeard would think were he to encounter a modern digital pirate. It seems a safe assumption that he would not think highly of those who download and share files illegally, not because he disagreed with the act ...

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Driving while under the influence is no small offense. But leaving your DWI hearing to sell prescription pills to an undercover officer in the court’s parking lot is a significantly greater matter. That’s what a Whiteville-area woman did early last ...

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  When Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Ola Lewis determined that there was a conflict of interest between the state and defendant Jeffrey Smith, a Town of Dublin commissioner facing multiple charges related to gaming machines, she went full Oprah ...

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