North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The alleged improprieties by plaintiff’s financial-adviser-turned-real-estate-agent had already occurred before the defendant-attorney came into plaintiff’s real estate deal as escrow agent and closing attorney. Even though plaintiff filed its legal malpractice claim within four years of the attorney’s last act ...

After the trial court denied defendant’s request for attorney’s fees under N.C. R. Civ. P. 11, defendant filed a motion under N.C. R. Civ. P. 60(b) requesting attorney’s fees on an entirely new legal basis: G.S. § 55-7-46(2). As a ...

Restricting the defendant-doctor’s ability to practice in the most populated areas of North Carolina when there are very few oculofacial plastic surgeons, and even fewer who perform some of the specialized procedures he is trained to provide, raises a substantial ...

The intervenor-maternal grandmother had already intervened in this custody action and been awarded visitation, so the subsequent termination of the defendant-mother’s parental rights (in a separate action) did not affect the grandmother’s visitation rights. We reverse the trial court’s orders ...

As part of its 2007 purchase of the assets of Addison Whitney, Inc., inVentiv Health, Inc., acquired Employee’s Agreements as to Work Product (EAWPs) signed by three of the defendants. When inVentiv’s successor entity, plaintiff Addison Whitney, LLC, employed those ...

The court believes plaintiff is unlikely to succeed on appeal, and it is not likely to be prejudiced by the lack of a stay pending appeal, so, in its discretion, the court denies plaintiff’s motion for a stay under N.C. ...

After defendant was found (with a white substance on and in his nose) in someone else’s house, the owner consented to a search of the house, and the search turned up, among other things, a black plastic bag containing smaller ...

Where the state presented evidence that (1) defendant occupied and possessed witness Bruce Beam’s car for two days prior to defendant’s arrest; (2) at the time of his arrest, two sheets of fake $20 bills were found in a pocket ...

After defendant was arrested and charged with impaired driving and failure to maintain lane control by uniform citation on Aug. 7, 2015, a grand jury returned a presentment and indictment on the charge in superior court on Feb. 27, 2017. ...

During a traffic stop, officers smelled marijuana on defendant’s person, and defendant eventually reached into his pants and handed over a small bag of marijuana. Despite having conducted a pat-down and found no weapons, the officers took defendant into the ...