North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A domestic violence attack that caused the victim to lose sight in one eye for a week and suffer impaired vision for two weeks was sufficient to support a conviction for assault inflicting serious bodily that “creates or causes ...

Tagged with: domestic violence

  You walk into a coffee shop or hotel that offers free public Wi-Fi, with your company email, your banking app, and your Amazon Prime app all residing on your cell phone or tablet. When you walk out, those bank ...

Tagged with: Cybersecurity

  A proposed ethics opinion would permit lawyers to accept an opposing counsel’s offer to view certain documents subject to an “attorney eyes only” disclosure restriction without their client’s consent. Proposed 2019 Formal Ethics Opinion 7, published by the North ...

Tagged with: Ethics

It was a baffling case of the vanishing bovines. In 2012, the father-and-son duo that owned Franklin Livestock in Franklin County agreed to raise more than 2,000 heads of cattle for the owner of a South Dakota cattle feedlot, who ...

Tagged with: cattle

Although prosecutors may have been improperly suggestive when they showed photos and videos of a shooting suspect to an eyewitness while preparing her to testify, that wasn’t enough to overturn the suspect’s conviction because the witness’ identification originated when she ...

Tagged with: witnesses

  Equitable subrogation is not limited to refinancings and can apply in the context of purchase transactions, a divided panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. In April 2005, John Wood agreed to purchase real property in ...

Tagged with: mortgage

In a world that’s always “on,” lawyers frequently go above and beyond. “Lawyers talk with me about working in firms where there is a culture of needing to be available 24/7. For example, if someone sends them an email at ...

  They all took different paths to get there, but five exceptional women have careers in law while serving their country. One grew up in a military family. One entered the military while competing in boxing, and another was motivated ...

Tagged with: Air Force

Small businesses that are struggling to reorganize their debts may find it easier to get a fresh start thanks to changes to federal bankruptcy laws taking effect next year. The Small Business Reorganization Act, which was signed into law in ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy

  A woman who didn’t report the fact that she had discovered her husband molesting their daughter can’t be found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to the crime, but did obstruct justice when she tried to block ...

Tagged with: sexual molestation