North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In a parking lot altercation, defendant shot plaintiff. After this court affirmed a judgment against defendant for battery, defendant moved for relief, asserting that his trial counsel had acted without his consent when counsel (1) entered into a consent order ...

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The trial court could not retroactively extend time for issuance of an alias and pluries summons once an action had been discontinued for failure to perfect service. On July 31, 2020, plaintiff filed a legal malpractice complaint against defendants, arising ...

Even though a lawyer generally may appear pro se, the court concludes, in a matter of first impression, that a court may disqualify a lawyer from appearing pro se in a particular case. The trial court did not abuse its ...

In the case of a fee dispute, Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5(f)(1) requires a lawyer to notify the client of the State Bar’s fee dispute resolution program at least 30 days prior to initiating legal proceedings to collect the disputed ...

Plaintiff alleges that, in prior litigation brought by Blue Rhino Global Sourcing, defendants committed legal malpractice when they failed to obtain and provide documentation showing (1) plaintiff had sold a limited number of its firepits with the user manuals displaying ...

The trial court denied outside counsel’s request for fees for work counsel had performed for a court-appointed receiver. Counsel appealed, and the court also denied counsel’s requests for fees related to the appeal because “the Appeal, if successful, would benefit ...

After withdrawing from representation of the defendant in this alienation of affections/criminal conversation lawsuit, attorney Amy Simpson joined Sodoma Law, P.C., the same firm at which plaintiff’s counsel works. Because Simpson was promptly screened from the case, never shared any ...

The plaintiff-law firm has not produced a signed copy of its alleged contingent fee contract with the defendant-limited liability companies, and the client-LLCs deny executing the contract. However, the third-party defendant attorney has attested that Rocco Scarfone—a member of the ...

According to plaintiff’s allegations, even though a Texas court’s order confirming an arbitration award effectively rejected an attempt by General Fidelity Insurance Company (GFIC) to pierce the corporate veil of plaintiff’s company, the defendant-law firm and its attorney failed to ...

  The defendant-attorney admitted to a pattern of going to visit elderly relatives of her clients without disclosing her representation of their children and attempting to influence a particular course of conduct in her clients’ interest. This admission and other ...