North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

When I was a child, grownups were often telling me that I ought to be a lawyer when I grew up. Usually this career advice was given right after an exhausting argument over some injustice that I felt had been ...

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  “It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.” Those words were perhaps most famously uttered by Denzel Washington and Jamie Foxx in the blockbusters “Training Day” and “Law Abiding Citizen,” respectively. But in real life, they recently ...

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  Representatives from North Carolina’s largest law firms and law schools recently advised aspiring lawyers on the risks and rewards of law practice specialization. While most agreed that the safe bet is to get broad experiences early on in one’s ...

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A dissolved Delaware corporation did not need a certificate of authority to transact business in North Carolina in order to petition for a partition of its real estate here, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled. The court reversed a 2017 ...

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A biological father who squirreled away money for his daughter by making regular cash deposits into a lockbox he kept at his residence had not done enough to show that he had made reasonable provisions for the child’s support, and ...

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed $2.7 million in fines levied against a pair of shipping companies based in Greece in a decision that is expected to ripple through the maritime world. “This case will be discussed ...

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  As North Carolina’s short legislative session begins May 16, some legislators say they are working to pass bills that would substantially change how the judiciary works. While the priority of the session appears to be making technical corrections and ...

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The losing side in a recent decision by the North Carolina Business Court may not be able to appeal the court’s decision because its notice of appeal mistakenly referenced the state’s Court of Appeals instead of the Supreme Court, which ...

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This is the second installment of a two-part series on attorneys who work from unconventional office spaces. The Bailey-Tucker House, a two-story colonial revival brick home built just across the street from the Governor’s mansion in Raleigh in 1917, is ...

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  An exotic dance club in North Carolina called the Gentlemen’s Playground will challenge a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that rejected two of its three arguments against a city ordinance for the licensing of sexually oriented businesses. ...

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