North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The city of Charlotte has paid $950,000 to the family of a college student who was killed after he was hit in a crosswalk by a police cruiser estimated to be going up to 100 mph, the family’s attorney reports. ...

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  A Charlotte man who was convicted of cyber-stalking a woman he met at church has had those convictions overturned after the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the messages he posted about the woman on his social media ...

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  Previously opened emails are considered to be in “electronic storage” and can, therefore, be the basis for claim under the federal Stored Communications Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a matter of first impression. ...

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  The wife and children of a North Carolina man killed after a commercial truck hit his car on a country road has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $3 million, the family’s attorneys reported. The man was driving ...

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  When Karlie Hudson graduated from Campbell Law School in 2017, she said it was an easy decision to pass on job opportunities with large law firms in Raleigh to go to work for Daughtry, Woodard, Lawrence, & Starling, a ...

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  The University of North Carolina School of Law has rebounded in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law School Rankings, rising 11 places and marking the largest change in position for any of North Carolina’s ranked law ...

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A bill that would provide a framework for how North Carolina attorneys can proceed when clients on all sides want to resolve their civil and business disputes without resorting to litigation has cleared the state’s House of Representatives for the ...

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  A Charlotte man will have to pay for some of the legal fees his ex-wife incurred while litigating a lengthy custody battle after the North Carolina Court of Appeals rejected his argument that their agreement to eventually settle the ...

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  A drug dealer’s statement to an undercover officer directing him to buy cocaine from his “boys” was properly admitted under an exception to the rule against hearsay even though the powder pawned off to police later proved to be ...

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In 2014, Chad McGowan, an attorney with McGowan, Hood & Felder, which has offices in Charlotte and Rock Hill, South Carolina, spent his days representing the state of South Carolina in an intense antitrust case. At night he took care ...

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